April Fool's Day
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Movie Reviews of April Fool's Day
Movie Review: What do you expect?
Summary: 5 Stars
When the trailers first came out for April Fools Day, they were accompanied by the song "Momma Told Me Not To Come" by Three Dog Night. I wasn't sure if it was a slasher movie, a comedy, a comedy-slasher movie, or even a frat-party movie. All I knew for sure was that Deborah Foreman (Valley Girl)was in it and in the mid-80's I thought she was so hot you could have cast her in a high school driving safety video and I would have paid admission.Foreman plays Muffy, a rich college kid who invites a bunch of friends to a secluded island owned by her family for a weekend (an April Fools weekend) of fun and pranks. The island is only reachable by ferry and this is the last ferry until monday. An accident happens and the kids are shaken.
Here is where the mind games start. Not many of the young people know each other. All are supposedly friends of Muffy, but most of them don't know each other directly. April fools pranks are played non-stop. Dribble glasses, collapsing chairs, and newspaper clippings about dark events. Wait a second...newspaper clippings? Is someone playing a joke, or is this real? There is the hook.
Severed heads, rattlenakes, and Muffy's slow transformation from college beauty to frumpy borderline personality disorder mix evenly with dirty tricks and foolish pranks. What is real? How much danger is everyone in?
There is no argument that April Fools Day was riding in on the wave of 80's slasher films, but that is where the similarity to other genre movies ends. You really have to think at this one. They really want to you ask yourself "is this all a joke?" and "could anyone have actually survived that?"
I have to give some credit to the music for setting up some great tension. It adds to the feel without taking you out of the moment.
If you have not seen this film but you have a friend that has, don't let them tell you any of it's dark secrets. Enjoy.
Movie Review: Finally!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm so glad that Paramount is finally getting its act together and releasing some of their "classic" 80's horror films. I'm looking forward to getting these movies in widescreen transfers after years of dealing with fullscreen editions. Let me start off by saying that I know this movie doesn't hold up on repeated viewings. I will, however, never forget the first time I saw it and how big of a shock the ending was. Everyone feels differently about it, you'll either love it or hate it.
This movie is high camp and almost has that pre-Scream tounge-in-cheek attitude about it. It is actually quite clever and reminds me a lot of Ten Little Indians and other "trapped with a killer" stories.
I'll also say that its NEVER a good idea to buy a movie you haven't seen before. So many reviews I read are from people who get angry when they buy a movie they haven't already experienced and then give it bad marks because they thought they wasted their money. DON'T BUY SOMETHING YOU HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE! THEN YOU CAN'T BE DISAPPOINTED! I'll buy this because I like the movie and have good memories of watching it at parties...I know that Paramount won't put any extras on it because they seemingly have no vault where they keep goodies. They are still EONS behind in the DVD market...almost embarassingly so, but I'm not buying the DVD for extras...just to have it will be nice.
Movie Review: At Last !!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Thank you Paramount for finally releasing this gem of a movie. This is 80's Horror at its best. I was lucky enough to catch it on British TV years ago and have been hunting for the DVD ever since.With more brains than your average teen slasher "April Fools Day" is about a group of college kids spending a weekend at their friends house (the wonderfully named Muffy!!)on a remote island. What starts out with the kids playing practical jokes on each other soon turns sinister as the friends start disapearing one by one. While not strictly a slasher (there is very little gore) it is a great little whodunnit which is a bit tongue in cheek. The story is full of red herrings and will keep you guessing right up until the end, along with a fantastic 'twist' ending, way before every other film was doing it!!. If 80's horrors are your thing then this will not dissapoint.
Shown as widescreen with English and French soundtrack.
Movie Review: remake in 2009
Summary: 5 Stars
concidering there remaking this in 2009 i wonder if they will go with the original ending from the original 1986 horror film with skips death after everyone leaves and some of them sneak back in to scare muffy i've heard they shot this but no footage has come to surface yet and would be nice if they would find it and rerelease it when the remake comes out ...
overall this is one of those classic horror gems in my collection reminds me of clue but with horror the whole whodunit mystery is good and muffy was awesome as a female double ego killer not too many horror films have female lead killers so this one was good but the ultimate female killer belongs to besty palmer (aka mama voorhees)who started it all!!!!!
Movie Review: A deadly prank
Summary: 5 Stars
Ok, I won't give away it's secret here, but this is one prank that turned deadly or did it? It is a very fun horror, who done it flick of the 80s. I thought that it was done very well and you were not expecting the ending at all. When the ending did unfold, you were sitting there thinking "hugh?" and then started laughing. I highly recommend this movie to anyone that really likes "twisted endings" in horror movies.