A budding social activist gets kidnapped and tortured by the Ku Klux Klan on New Year's Eve as a cruel Grand Dragon, with a twisted sense of humor, emcees a special meeting. Eventually, with his cleverness and discreet help of the compassionate son of the Grand Dragon -- he escapes, to tell his story.  

Genre – Social Horror, Political Thriller

Comps – GET OUT, BLACKKKLANSMAN, A TIME TO KILL

SYNOPSIS:

Set against the volatile racial tensions of Phoenix in the mid-1990s, New Years Eve-L follows Curtis, a reformed ex-con trying to build a stable life with his fiancée Davida and her children. After a violent clash between white supremacists and protestors erupts near City Hall, Curtis finds himself drawn deeper into the struggle against the Ku Klux Klan, inspired by the fiery activism of Reverend Cooke. But on New Year’s Eve, Curtis is coerced by his racist employer into making a late-night delivery that pulls him away from a crucial anti-Klan meeting—setting him on a path toward a nightmare he never anticipated.

Unbeknownst to Curtis, the delivery is a setup orchestrated by a secretive and powerful Klan faction operating within elite institutions. Drugged and captured, he is forced to endure a horrifying indoctrination session led by Professor Burns, a sadistic Klan leader who reveals a chilling conspiracy known as “Think Tank 55.” Through a grotesque presentation blending propaganda, historical revisionism, and psychological terror, Curtis learns that this organization has spent decades embedding itself within government, law enforcement, and society at large, quietly advancing a long-term plan of racial domination and genocide. Powerless and paralyzed, Curtis becomes both witness and target of their ideology.

As the night unfolds, the film intercuts between Curtis’s captivity and the normalcy of Davida’s home, heightening the emotional stakes as she senses something is wrong. Curtis’s survival—and the exposure of the Klan’s hidden empire—becomes the central tension of the story. What begins as a personal journey of redemption transforms into a larger fight against a deeply rooted system of hate and control. The screenplay ultimately explores themes of resilience, systemic racism, and the dangerous persistence of extremist ideology, all building toward a confrontation that could determine not only Curtis’s fate, but the future of those targeted by the conspiracy.