Monday, December 29th, 2025
Monday, December 29th- Want to start off your New Year with a bang? Then look no further than Monday Movie Nights at Hotwax- featuring Scarlett’s Sacrilegious Cinema: Menagerie of Madness- with a back to back double feature revolving around New Year’s Eve to pregame for this coming Wednesday night in the final hurray before we bid farewell to 2025. 
Starting off at 8PM, we hang out with L.A. punk rock host “Blaze” Diane Sullivan, in a countdown to the New Year- but instead of ushering in a typical alcohol fueled debauchery into midnight, an unidentified murderer vows to kill a victim for each U.S. time zone until he reaches Blaze at the stroke of Pacific Standard Time. Brace yourself for NEW YEARS EVIL (1980).
Directed by Emmett Alston and starring Roz Kelly, Kip Niven and Grant Cramer of Killer Klowns From Outerspace (1988), this hidden gem offers a cast of character actors to add a flair for the dramatics, with its absurdity rivaling the entertainment factor in the best way possible.
A time capsule, New Year’s Evil features extensive long shots of L.A.’s gritty punk scene, inundated with a soundtrack of 80’s hair metal- complete with its own unique theme song helmed by obscure band Shadow- a treat for avid fans of the decade. Unlike other holiday horrors, New Year’s Evil sticks out as an above average slasher from its era of infamy, emerging as a guilty pleasure in a span of cerebral genre flicks to come with the killer hiding in plain sight. 
Then, at 10PM, hop onto the TERROR TRAIN (1980) and join final girl extraordinaire Jamie Lee Curtis as Alana Maxwell with her fellow pre-med students for a celebration on the tracks. Although among this costume party a killer lurks undetected in the company of masks, using the theme to hide in plain sight as the perpetrator racks up a body count, with each victim being apart of a dark fraternity prank resulting in a pledge being committed to a psych ward. Can Alana and her classmates put an end to the culprit’s reign of vengeance before he/she puts an end to them? Come out to see if the group can outrun their tattered past. In addition to scream queen royalty JLC, magician David Copperfield assumes a role as his aforementioned occupation, building to the whodunnit smoke and mirrors aspect of the flick. Feast your eyes on a forgotten film of Roger Spottiswoode amidst the 80’s slasher holiday horror boom. 
No cover charge and FREE POPCORN with purchase. (In addition to psychological insight accompanied by behind the scenes information and observations by your horror hostess)
Join me and let’s get scared! Viewer beware!!