Review#269: April Fool’s Day (1986)
***Spoiler alert!!*** I’m spoiling this movie! Because you have the right to know!
This is one of those movies that I always saw at the video store. I spent a large portion of my youth scanning the Horror section, yet for some reason the box to April Fool’s Day never made itself seem more interesting than the others I chose. Well, I saw it this weekend. It’s a good, run-of-the-mill, 80’s horror movie. Young people having sex, partying and getting killed. I don’t remember if there were any titties in it, but i sure recall the scene with the dude in tighty-whiteys (Jockey brand y-fronts, to be exact). And a few times when Biff Tannen and another dude kept pretending to be gay together.
A bunch of people get together for some reason at the island-home of Muffy. They all get killed, Muffy has a twin, Buffy, blah blah blah. So what’s the spoiler? Who was the killer?
No one! It was an April Fool’s prank! The whole thing! Even after this is disclosed, Muffy gets her throat slashed…but that’s a gag, too! No one is the killer because no one actually gets killed! Other than that little fact, it’s a perfectly good 80’s horror flick. Just be ready to care even less than you normally would about the characters.