April Fools Day [1986] (DVD)

Aprils Fools Day is a 1986 horror film. Set on a small island, a group of teenagers are invited to spend weekend at a friend, Muffy St John mansion. Before the arrival of the guests she goes through great detail to prepare pranks to surprise her friends. After all it is April Fools party. The characters are introduced by video introductions as they say few things about each other while en route and before the party starts. There is a couple in love and various odd characters. The group tries to relax by telling stories and getting to know each other, odd surprise layed out doesn't deter them. Soon one of them goes missing, slowly more ...  Read the complete review

April Fool's Day is one of the more overlooked movies in the slasher movie genre. It is however, one of the better ones if you ask me, and one of the few not to have spawned 101 sequels. Muffy St. John(snigger) has inherited an island(must be nice) and this April Fool's Day has decided to throw a wild party for an assembled group of her teenage friends there. It starts well - with the grisly death of one of the aforementioned friends in a boating accident. Still, since when did a little thing like the death of a best friend put anyone off a party? Our horny bunch of revellers carry on regardless, but Muffy has a few games in mind, leaving clues to some ...  Read the complete review

April Fool’s Day was originally billed has a Agatha Christie style suspense movie with gore by its director Fred Walton, but somewhere along the line they forgot to add the suspense and instead it marketed on the claim ‘it’s by the team that bought you Friday the 13th 2,3,4,5 and 6’ so that doesn’t bode too well. The film starts with a group of young students college students getting together, here we have the usual horror stereotypes included – the jock, the slut, the brainy girl, the nerd and the prankster. They are gathering because they are about to head off to the very remote Maine island, as they have been invited so spend the ...  Read the complete review

In this film Muffy invites all her friends for a party at a secluded house. It is on april fool's day. Everyone is in high spirits until one person bashes his head on the boat and has to be taken back to the mainland. At Muffy's everyone finds horrible surprises in their room that symbolise something horrible in their life, like one girl has a tape of a baby because she had an abortion. The next day Muffy is acting really strange and people start to go missing. Some dead bodies are found in the well. The phones also go dead. Could it all be an eloborate hoax or has Muffy got a horrible secret. This film is a horror comedy and is obviously ...  Read the complete review

Muffy invites all her friends to a secluded house on an island ver the april fool's weekend. On the way, after playing an april fool's trick one person gets smashed in the face and goes back. When they arrive they find doll's in each of their likeness and find Muffy has played a few tricks on them, like leaking glasses. The all go to their rooms and find represnetations of painful parts of their lives, like car crashes and abortions. The next day they wake to find one person missing. Some more disappear and their bodies are found in the well also Muffy is acting really strange. They decide to leave but realise they phones are dead and they are cut off. Two ...  Read the complete review