April Fool's Day (1986) - A group of college friends are ferried to the island mansion of their classmate, Muffy St. John, to celebrate their last year of college. Being a group of practical jokers at heart, from collapsing chairs to mysterious eyes in paintings, nothing seems to be off limits for practical jokes. Soon, though, with friends gone missing and Muffy acting strangely, the line between practical jokes and grim reality fades as the remaining friends are fighting for their lives. Or are they?
Featuring a cast of talented young actors including Deborah Foreman, Amy Steel, and Ken Olandt, April Fool's Day starts off with a bang. From the first scene we see these characters are always joking and pranking each other. Even a horrible accident on the boat ride on the way to the island where they will spend the weekend does not put a damper on their sense of humor. The sense of humor in this contrasts well, initially, against the story as it develops and brings down the amiability of the group.
I said initially because even though the movie as a whole has its tongue firmly in its cheek, there is a point where fantasy and reality, in the story on screen, become difficult to distinguish. Of course this is intentional on the part of the filmmakers and will rub different viewers right or wrong.
Overall April Fool's Day is a fun movie, and a different kind of slasher movie. It's not a movie you want to analyze. There are various elements in the movie which are there for the story, or effect if you will, but make little or no sense. It does not affect the rest of the movie, unless you spend too much time thinking about it, and the potential is rife for this movie to keep you annoyed if you let illogical stuff distract you.
I give it 3 Daggers for being a fun movie.
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