Horror Movies Set Around New Year's

Of course, Rosemary's Baby spans a much longer time than just New Year's Eve, but a key scene in the film takes place at a New Year's Eve party. The new year coincides with expectant mother Rosemary's awareness that something is not quite right.

Rosemary's Baby is also a classic of the genre, filled with ominous and even apocalyptic themes of birth and transformation that make it perfect for ringing in the new year. 

This movie has Arnold Schwarzenegger, Y2K paranoia, satanic conspiracies, Gabriel Byrne as the devil, over-the-top special effects, and a soundtrack featuring Rob Zombie, Limp Bizkit, and Korn. Plus, it's directed by the man who made Timecop and The Relic. No movie could have prepared the world for the turn of the millennium better than End of Days.

Set in New York City at the end of 1999, Satan is trying to find a bride before the beginning of the new millennium, and it's up to ex-cop Jericho Cane to stop him.

Not only was this film set on New Year's, but it was also released on New Year's Day in 1921. The Phantom Carriage is a landmark piece of silent horror cinema, featuring special effects that were state-of-the-art at the time, and still stand up as inescapably eerie images today. Its complex plot utilizes flashbacks-within-flashbacks to tell a story of Death's carriage. With every year that passes, the horse and carriage stay the same, but the driver is replaced by the last person who passed the year before.

The Phantom Carriage influenced the films of some of history's greatest directors, including Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick.

Terror Train stars scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis after her hit role in Halloween, though the movie failed to impress critics.

The story of a slayer getting revenge for a past tragedy during a New Year's Eve party on a train may not be the most original, but it features a baddie in a Groucho Marx mask and has a guest appearance by famous magician David Copperfield.

The plot of this one will probably sound familiar, since it was remade 20 years later as the more famous Vincent Price film, House of Wax. Taking place on New Year's Day in 1933, Mystery of the Wax Museum tells the tale of a sculptor at the titular wax museum who is horribly burned and disfigured in a fire that destroys his wax creations. He sets about recreating his masterpieces by offing individuals who resemble his prized statues and dipping them into wax.

It's one of the last surviving movies made with early two-color process Technicolor, which creates a lurid pulp quality that adds to the horror and makes Mystery of the Wax Museum an experience unlike any other.

Midnighters is about a married couple who drive home from a New Year's Eve party and run into a man with their car. Initially, they try to call 911 and take him to the hospital, but when he passes in the back seat, they decide to take him home and sober up before reporting the incident.

To say that things don't go quite as planned is a serious understatement, and the two become embroiled in an ever-escalating game of cat-and-mouse in this low-budget Hitchcockian thriller filled with bad decisions and secret motives.