From the writer of The Beverly Hills Cop series comes April Fool's Day!
Fred Walton's April Fool's Day can is almost like a really good episode of Saved By The Bell combined with Friday The 13th, where the teenagers are loaded with extra hormones.
On a remote island, Muffy and her friends retreat to her families cabin for a carefree weekend. Before they even arrive on shore, the tone is set when one teenager falls from the boat resulting in his face becoming gruesomely disfigured.
Shortly later, the rest of the kids begin settling in the house, pulling small pranks on each other here and there, but before long they start to go missing, one by one.
The group discovers that their host has a twin sister, whose completely mad. With the discovery of Muffy's head, the teenagers know that they're in for a rough weekend.
Starring Amy Steel from Friday The 13th Part II, April Fool's day is a not a film with a think heavy plot, but it's surprisingly well shot and well crafted considering the regurgitation of slasher films at the time. However, it seems that this film may of been a curse...the actors, director, and writer went on to do nothing substantial with their careers.
Despite everything else, this slasher is undeniably fun, lighthearted in nature, and of course, stands above the sea of boring, forgettable slashers that caused the genre to die out as the 80s progressed.
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