On April Fool's Day weekend, a group of college friends gather together at a secluded island mansion to celebrate their final year of school, where they soon become prey for an unseen murderer.
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Amy Steel
Kit Graham
Ken Olandt
Rob Ferris
Deborah Foreman
Muffy / Buffy St. John
Deborah Goodrich
Nikki Beshears
Clayton Rohner
Chaz Vyshinski
Thomas F. Wilson
Arch Cummings
Jay Baker
Harvey 'Hal' Edison
Leah Pinsent
Nan Youngblood
Griffin O'Neal
Skip St. John
Tom Heaton
Constable Potter / Uncle Frank
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
John Chard
November 2, 2014
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 ...
JPV852
March 14, 2020
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**
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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