BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

morrison-dylan-fan With the IMDb October Horror Challenge taking place,I decided to take a look at the Horror section on Netflix UK. Hearing about the movie after catching the tense Slasher/Giallo crossover Happy Birthday To Me,I was pleased to find that the title had recently been put on the site,which led to me getting ready to perform a vicious April Fools.The plot:Celebrating the start of April over the weekend,pals Harvey, Nikki, Rob, Skip, Nan, Chaz and Kit decide to spend time on Skip's sister Muffy's isolated island mansion. Playing April Fools on each other as they take the last boat to the island,which leads to deckhand Buck getting hurt and being rushed to hospital. Shaken by the accident,the gang soon discover that Muffy has transformed the island into a deadly April Fools.View on the film:Talking about Agatha Christie when they find dolls round the dinner table, (for being "dumb kids" their quoting of Christie/James Boswell and John Milton sure looks like a mature reading taste!) the debut screenplay by Danilo Bach holds back on diving into the full-on Slasher gore to instead stab the psychological fear of the Giallo. Opening up the Slasher box of "mommy issues",Bach wonderfully uses the title for a jack in the box Giallo mystery,leaping round via the "jokes" that Muffy has left round the mansion,to the (off screen) Slasher killings cleverly being placed for a completely different perspective being revealed in the richly macabre,Christie/Giallo-style twist ending.Losing its entire third act, (which Jeff Rovin's novelisation shows to be a much darker final to the "upbeat" studio final) director Fred Walton and cinematographer Charles Minsky impressively hold things together by casting an eerie Giallo atmosphere over the title,as gliding shots stylishly display the isolation of the Christie-style mansion. Running on a classy note which keeps all the sexy girls dressed (boo!) Walton gives the Slasher murders tantalisingly brief glimpses,that are finely balanced between offering a body count,and being vague enough to quietly place clues towards the sharp twist ending,as Muffy gives everyone an unforgettable April Fools Day.

edwardrevans This movie is how can I say intriguingly bad in a way it's enjoyable to watch, and that's the key. It seems that the actors are overacting and hamming it up for the audience. Normally I would of switched the movie of like this as I did in Batman V superman, however I was hooked on how weird it is and where it was going. April fools day is shot like a home movie and acted such with random dialogue that never made sense, its the kind of film you would show a B movie party. It's difficult to review April Fools day without giving out massive spoilers as the movie title kind of does that anyway. April fools Day is as we shall say a Guilty Pleasure.

Predrag The slasher boom of the early 1980's had more or less completely curdled by this point, but nobody had come up with anything to replace the long played-out template which had very little influence beyond initiating the replacement of tired stories about sexually neurotic psycho killers with tired stories about sexually neurotic psycho killer monsters. The film contains relatively little graphic gore, no actual nudity, and some pretty good actors, thereby going against the cookie-cutter recipe and, instead, concentrating on the development of likable characters, eerie atmosphere, and some genuinely effective spook-show scares. The plot is quite simple. A group of eight college friends (each more annoying than the next) gather together at an island mansion belonging to heiress Muffy St. John to celebrate their final year of school. They soon discover that each has a hidden secret from their past which is revealed, and soon after, they turn up dead. Yet, are they really dead? Or is it just part of some very real and cruel April Fool's jokes? The hostess, Muffy, is the only one who apparently knows what's going on. But then again, is it really her doing the killing? Fun from beginning to end.Director Fred Walton uses a funny, yet haunting script to create a slasher film with a twist. Nothing too special, for it stills holds very true with the genre, "April Fool's Day" will greatly satisfy fans of a film that combines humor and violence, while others purely dedicated to the slice-and-dice theme might be turned off. There is no argument that "April Fool's 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.Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

gwnightscream This 1986 horror film stars Deborah Foreman, Amy Steel, Ken Olandt, Deborah Goodrich, Griffin O'Neal, Jay Baker, Clayton Rohner, Leah Pinsent and Thomas F. Wilson. This tells about a group of college friends spending April Fool's weekend together. They begin playing jokes on each other until someone decides to play a deadly game of their own when each of them disappear one by one. Foreman (Real Genius) plays host & friend, Muffy, Steel (Friday the 13th 2) plays Kit, Olandt (Summer School) plays Rob, Goodrich (Just One of the Guys) plays Nikki, O'Neal (son of Ryan) plays Muffy's brother, Skip, Rohner (Just One of the Guys) plays Chaz, Baker plays Harvey, Pinsent plays Nan and Wilson (Back to the Future) plays Arch. This is a good 80's flick featuring a decent cast and good, eerie score by Charles Bernstein. I recommend this if you're into horror/slasher flicks.