April Fool's Day
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Movie Reviews of April Fool's Day
Movie Review: A great who-dunnit movie!
Summary: 4 Stars
APRIL FOOL'S DAY starts off like many great slashers: gore, creepyness and the promise of some sexy bodies. Muffy Saint John invites her college buddies over to the private island where she lives in her huge mansion. It seems that it's spring break and April Fool's is coming up.....and so is the body count!
It seems that someone on the island is cutting the guest list one by one and the only way out is death.....
APRIL FOOL'S DAY- a terrific parody, a creepy thriller, a shocking 83 minutes that leads up to an even more shocking final 5.... pick it up today.
RECCOMENDED TO FANS OF:
Friday the 13th (1980)
Slaughter High (1986)
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
CAST
Deborah Foreman....Muffy/Buffy St. John
Ken Olandt Ferris
Amy Graham
Jay Edison, Jr.
THE MOVIE: 4/4
THE PICTURE QUALITY: 10/10 Once again, Paramount shows that their best feature is their video quality. 2.35:1 Anamorphic widescreen.
THE AUDIO QUALITY: 10/10 5.1 Surround, 2.0 Dolby surround. French Dolby 2.0 surround included.
THE SPECIAL FEATURES: none. Paramount raped my wallet of $22 for audio and video. But it was almost worth it. Not even a trailer.
SUBTITLES: English, Spanish and French.
Movie Review: Creepy fun on April Fools Day
Summary: 4 Stars
Another Canadian horror delight this time set on April Fools Day. This has a "Ten Little Indians" sort of feel to it. There are nine college students spending the weekend at an isolated island mansion belonging to their friend Muffy St. John who begins to act stranger by the minute. After a few of their friends begin to disappear, they realize they may be next only there is no way off the island. Soon, people begin turning on each other and no one is sure who to trust. By the end, everything will be revealed. Was it all an elaborate April Fools Day joke or is there something more sinister at work? I loved the music score to this and the setting was great. All the actors were likeable and did a nice job. There are some fun, humorous moments here combined with some creepy, suspenseful ones. All in all, this is a very enjoyable and entertaining flick. It is much smarter than many other horror/slashers from its time. Also directed by When a Stranger Calls (1979) Fred Walton. 4 stars. Also recommended is another Canadian great - Happy Birthday to Me and Curtains which unfortunately has not seen the light of day on DVD yet.Movie Review: Unexpected Good Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I just happened to rent "April Fool's Day" with my friends in college. We had always commented on seeing the cover when we were children and how we were intrigued by the girl's hair, styled like a noose. Having watched many other B-horrow movies, we figured this one would be the same and we'd have a good laugh. What we got was something totally unexpected; "April Fool's Day" actually is a good movie!The story centers around a group of friends who all decide to stay together at their friend's house. As soon as they arrive strange things start happening. All is good until their hostess begins a transformation into someone no one expected her to be. This is when people start dying. There is the typical running, crying, chasing, falling, and everything else that's obligatory to a horror film, but it's the ending that will really get you! It definitely had me and my friends shocked, so shocked we had to watch the movie all over again!!
I would highly recommend this film to horror lovers as well as people who want to watch a really cool and funny film!
Movie Review: WHO'S FOOLIN WHO
Summary: 4 Stars
Credit has to go to the people behind APRIL FOOL'S DAY. Eschewing the typical slasher formula, the movie plays like an update of TEN LITTLE INDIANS. A group of college students are invited to Muffy St. John's island getaway for a weekend of fun and foolishness. The writers set up the fact that there are some practical jokers amongst them, so when real murders start, the viewer has to wonder if they aren't jokes, but they seem too real for the frightened crew, and hostess Muffy has started to act like she's missing a few raisins in her muffin. Although it starts a little slowly, once it picks up, it has some neat suspenseful moments and a predictable but enjoyable climax. Deborah Foreman, Ken Olandt, Amy Steel, Jay Baker, Clayton Rohner and Griffin O'Neal head the cast, and it's fun for a change of pace slasher/suspense flick.Movie Review: Will everyone get killed on April Fool's Day?
Summary: 4 Stars
Muffy (Deborah Foreman) invites nine of her school friends to her home for an April Fool's Day vacation. They all must board a ferry to get across the waters. Even then a horrible accident happens with one of the young men. The others finally reach Muffy's home and it becomes fun from there. Muffy is a wonderful host. By next morning, one person is found dead and yet another guest is missing and another dead. Not your usual teenage/young adult slasher film. This one is intelligent! Great brain-busting ending. Filmed in Vancouver, Canada. Great acting by Deborah Foreman. Amy Steel you remember from Friday The 13th Part 2 (1981). Clayton Rohner was in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Too Short A Season".
***Remake of "April Fool's Day" (2008) released on video.