Wanting to ring in the new year with a bang, Karen has selected the 1980 slasher film “New Year’s Evil” for our viewing pleasure this week. Join Greg and Karen as they discuss and critique the film while drinking a “Stroke of Midnight Cocktail”. Below is the drink recipe that Karen discovered on cointreau.com.

Stroke of Midnight Cocktail Recipe

• 1 oz Cointreau
• 1/4 oz grenadine
• 4 oz champagne

Instructions:

1. Combine ingredients apart from champagne in a mixing glass.
   
2. Add ice and stir briefly.
   
3. Strain into a chilled champagne flute.
   
4. Top off with champagne.
   
5. Garnish with an orange twist.
   

A Brief Synopsis: Lonely women wanting to celebrate New Year’s Eve become easy prey for a maniacal murdering misogynist whose New Year’s resolution is to kill women at every stroke of midnight.

Some of the topics discussed and highlights of this episode include:

• Greg makes a reference to the 70’s sitcom “Happy Days”.
  
• Karen teaches us all about Nurses caps.
  
• Greg references Dee Snider from “Twisted Sister”.
  
• We have yet another reference to Stan Laurel from “Laurel & Hardy”.
  
• If you didn’t know already, Karen is all about the “evil”.
  
• Remember Erik Estrada and the TV show CHiPs?
  
• Greg references the classic holiday film “Scrooged”.
  
• Our hosts reminisce about local radio stations in the 80’s.
  

Our rating of the film:

This movie was soooo bad that it took us 5 cocktails to get through it.

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