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April Fool's Day
April Fool's Day

April Fool's Day

1986 88 min ★ 6.0 Horror, Mystery

As soon as Muffy St. John and her college friends arrive on her parents' secluded island, someone starts trimming the guest list... one murder at a time.

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Cast

Amy Steel

Amy Steel

Kit Graham

Ken Olandt

Ken Olandt

Rob Ferris

Deborah Foreman

Deborah Foreman

Muffy / Buffy St. John

Deborah Goodrich

Deborah Goodrich

Nikki Beshears

Clayton Rohner

Clayton Rohner

Chaz Vyshinski

Thomas F. Wilson

Thomas F. Wilson

Arch Cummings

Jay Baker

Harvey 'Hal' Edison

Leah Pinsent

Nan Youngblood

Griffin O'Neal

Griffin O'Neal

Skip St. John

Tom Heaton

Tom Heaton

Constable Potter / Uncle Frank

Details

Director

Fred Walton

Tagline

"Guess who's going to be the life of the party?"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$5,000,000

Production

YCTM, Hometown Films, Paramount Pictures

Reviews

J

John Chard

November 2, 2014

★ 7/10

Muffy the ham-pie slayer! A group of college buddies convene at a friends isolated abode and get killed off one by one… Great fun, Fred Walton, Frank Mancuso Jr. and Danilo Bach tap cheekily into the 1980s obsession with slasher films, and produce a self aware horror movie of mighty dark comedy proportions. Quite often when film makers try to laugh as they bite the hand that feeds them they ...

J

JPV852

March 14, 2020

★ 8/10

Fun horror movie that is on the predictable side but I still found it pretty entertaining. The ensemble cast was alright with the most well known face, at now, is of course Thomas F. Wilson (Biff). Not sure how high up this is amongst the holiday horror movies, but I liked it. **3.75/5**

W

Wuchak

August 18, 2020

_**April Fools slasher**_ Ten youths about to graduate college celebrate at a remote island mansion in the Great Northwest, soon to be inherited by one them (Deborah Foreman). Unfortunately, they start getting hacked one-by-one. Who’s the killer? "April Fool’s Day" (1986) is a slasher/horror in the cabin-in-the-woods mold; it’s just that the ‘cabin’ in this case is a magnificent mans...

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