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April Fool's Day

6.0

Released March 27, 1986Runtime 1h 28min

Guess who's going to be the life of the party?

As soon as Muffy St. John and her college friends arrive on her parents' secluded island, someone starts trimming the guest list... one murder at a time.

Genres

Horror

Mystery

Production Companies

YCTM

Hometown Films

Paramount Pictures

Production Countries

United States of America

Finances

Budget: $5,000,000
Revenue: $0
Profit/Loss: $0

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Cast

Amy SteelKit Graham

Ken OlandtRob Ferris

Deborah ForemanMuffy / Buffy St. John

Deborah GoodrichNikki Beshears

Clayton RohnerChaz Vyshinski

Thomas F. WilsonArch Cummings

Jay BakerHarvey 'Hal' Edison

Leah PinsentNan Youngblood

Griffin O'NealSkip St. John

Tom HeatonConstable Potter / Uncle Frank

Lloyd BerryFerryman

Pat BarlowClara

Mike NomadBuck

Crew

Fred WaltonDirector

Danilo BachWriter

Fern ChampionCasting

Frank Mancuso Jr.Producer

Pamela BaskerCasting

Martin BeckerMakeup Effects

Bettie KauffmanMakeup Effects

Della Mae JohnstonSet Decoration

Bruce GreenEditor

Charles BernsteinOriginal Music Composer

Jim GillMakeup Effects

Christopher SwiftMakeup Effects

W. Stewart CampbellArt Direction

Charles MinskyDirector of Photography

Martin BeckerMakeup Effects Designer

Martin BeckerSpecial Effects

Todd McIntoshMakeup Department Head

David Lewis YewdallSound Designer

F. Hudson MillerSound Effects

Jonathan D. EvansSound Engineer

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Reviews

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 come...

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**

_**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...