Even though its light on the gore april fools day is filled with entertaining characters, 80s cheese and lots of twisties and turnsies. April fools day or april fools day sometimes called all fools day is an annual custom on april 1 consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. Inspired in part by the roman festival of hilaria and the medieval feast of fools, the first of the fourth month brings april fools day, a celebration. Ferry landing new england 8b0re day the sparkling waters. It received varied responses from film critics, with some commending it for its nongratuitous violence and plot twists, while others lambasted it for its surprise ending. John deborah foreman is rich and she is about to inherit an old house on an island. My alltime favorite socalled horror movie ending because this is exactly something id pull on a friend. Apr 01, 2016 i dont usually write two anniversary posts in one week, but i just watched the 1986 slasher april fools day for the first time i know, i know, im a bad horror fan and couldnt. The actor was noncommittal about returning to the role for a long time, but he eventually agreed to return for one final adventure to.
For april fools day 2014, it was announced gobusters was going to be adapted in 2015 as power rangers energy chasers, and was going to air on the saban brands owned vortexx block. I dont usually write two anniversary posts in one week, but i just watched the 1986 slasher april fools day for the first time i know, i know, im a bad horror fan and couldnt. April fools day runs for a full 24 hours and will end at midnight. Deuces film has great actors but weird ending the daily. Spoiler warning if you havent seen april fools day. Released by varese sarabande in 1986 containing music from april fools day 1986. Mar 24, 2020 april fools day came at the end of the craze and tries something new with the formula.
April fools day 1986 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Rhorror, known as dreadit by our subscribers is the premier horror entertainment community on reddit. No one watches a slasher movie for its complicated narrative or multidimensional characters, so to rob us of its most standard elements not to mention the cathartic moment of our hero triumphing over their. April fools day is a soso horror film that once you know what. The highlight here is mostly the goofy ass characters.
If you disagree or have additional info, please update us. April fools day is described by star scout taylorcompton as mean girls crossed with horror, and was released straight to dvd on march 25, 2008. The april fools 1969 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. It had a very different kind of twist at the end than most horror movies. Remembering april fools day, an underrated slasher.
April fools day fred waltons protoscream we minored. Eight college chums are invited to a weekend april fools party held by their. She decides to throw a party for her pals from college in there on april fools day. What perhaps made me finally throw april fools day on this april 1st was hearing some of you mention that rather than as a straightahead slasher flick or horror black comedy this film may well work best as a mystery. Filmed in british columbia in 1985, april fools day was released in the spring of 1986 through paramount pictures in conjunction with the april 1 holiday. The littleseen 2008 directtovideo remake took that to heart.
Jack weston and harvey korman almost steal the movie. For many of the cast, the twists and turns of april fools day were part of the films charms and huge draws when first coming on board the project in the mid1980s, but they all agreed it was a combination of a skilled crew, a brilliant director, and a script that respected both the characters and the audience that made april fools day. Director fred walton when a stranger calls back teamed with screenwriter danilo bach beverly hills cop and executive producer frank mancuso jr. The scratch community will often make joke projects and trick others on april fools day. It is a shame and a crime that this movie isnt on dvd.
The scratch team as well sometimes creates april fools pranks on the scratch website. When slasher characters are interesting it completely elevates the experience. I first caught april fools day on vhs a couple summers back after more than a decade of being intrigued by its cover art, and its ending completely caught me by surprise. Mass media can be involved in these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following day. I really have to stop watching april fools day because i like it less and lessfeel more cheated each time i bother giving it another chance. First of all, you know, i would not laugh at any of the pranks and after the third or fourth broken chairwater spraying me in the facespilling drinks down the front of megetting locked in my room. Sometimes, there will be several versions of a movie floating about on cable, tv or video etc. This was my first time for most of these except mbv and the friday the th film. Is it because i related to the abundance of sexinclined. Virtually the first third of the april fools takes place at a trendy party held by sharkish executive ted gunther peter lawford.
Any slasher movie with a title like april fools day would have to be a spoof, and this one fits that niche perfectly. April fools day is a 2008 american directtovideo slasher film remake of the 1986 film of the same name. April fools day is a 1986 fake slasher movie directed by fred walton, who also directed when a stranger calls seven years prior muffy st. It is directed by the butcher brothers, also known as mitchell altieri and phil flores. Like many slasher fans, i was disappointed to say the least when i watched april fools day for the first time and got to the haha, it was all a prank. With jack lemmon, catherine deneuve, peter lawford, jack weston. Apr 06, 2017 three africanamerican males immersed in drug dealing, violence and dishonesty is not a groundbreaking movie plot, but director jamal hill intertwines these thoughtprovoking dilemmas in his film deuces. April fools muffy april fools day will always be a personal fav of mine. This works for the films theme but the biggest turn onoff for most horror fans is the ending. Fools day by cody blue snider comedy horror short film.
Other times, a director may release a special cut of the movie on bluray or dvd. Its odd to have an ending actually save a movie for me, but this one did. Ending spoiler for april fools day 1986, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more. The april fools jest works for me but i can see why some people find it disappointing. I just watched april fools day for the first time and can definitely recommend it. The following versions of april fools day are apparently real. April fools day soundtrack from 1986, composed by charles bernstein. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting april fools at the recipient. Do you think april fools day has a place among the self aware movies like scream and cabin in the woods. Aside from all that april fools day chugs along though the second half of the movie feels like. Today were going to take a look at the best movie related gags from around the internet. The marathon had boogens, a random friday the th, my bloody valentine, april fools day, and two other slashers that skipped my mind at the moment.
Its a film that weve had on our docket for quite some time now but are just finally getting around. April fools day came at the end of the craze and tries something new with the formula. Apr 02, 2012 april fools day really does work best, i think, when its situated firmly in the context of 1986 and the kind of slasher movies that had been produced by the carload for the prior six years. Its funny, and generally pretty smart, although the premise is insane. With deborah foreman, griffin oneal, clayton rohner, jay baker. April fools day really does work best, i think, when its situated firmly in the context of 1986 and the kind of slasher movies that had been produced by the carload for the prior six years. A year after an april fools day prank which resulted in the death of one of their set, a group of friends find themselves targeted by someone who is out for revenge. But weird things soon start to happen, as someone has stored very different kind of. It is here that howard brubaker jack lemmon, one of gunthers. He doesnt fit in, leaves with a woman, spends all night with her, falls in love with her and finds out shes his boss wife. This is a fun film and is a great improvement on a lot of the more recent horror films. We are on an isolated stretch of country shore, and a quiet, sheltered ittload is visuaile distantly across. April fools day 1986 podcast episode 125 april fools day.
Tom hardy responds to james bond april fools prank. Nine college students staying at a friends remote island mansion begin to fall victim to an unseen murderer over the april fools day weekend. Three africanamerican males immersed in drug dealing, violence and dishonesty is not a groundbreaking movie plot, but director jamal hill intertwines these thoughtprovoking dilemmas in his film deuces. This image was shared on april 1 in japan, and it says this socalled film will go live on the same day next year. We follow a group of young people as they are systematically picked off one by one by an unknown murderer. April fools day 1986 ending spoiler movie mistakes. To me, its always been the perfect antislasher, where no. A film ive talked about ad nauseam for like decades now, fred waltons april fools day has been a favorite of mine ever since i discovered it on vhs during the summer of 1987 you can read all three parts of my 30th anniversary retrospective series here, here, and here.
Dragon ball super trolls fans with hilarious movie prank. If you are a fan of 80s slasher flicks, or horror films in general, then you will love this movie. But, on the bright side, the fact that its april fools day affords us the perfect opportunity to finally feature cody blue sniders 20 short, fools day. Movies like april fools day 1986 if you like april fools day you are looking for scary, suspenseful and rough movies about with slasher, murder, island, holiday horror, hanging, serial killer and gory themes of horror and mystery genre shot in usa or canada.
The ending to the most recent bond adventure spectre seemed to act as a farewell to the daniel craig era, with bond riding into the sunset with his new love. A married man enters his boss apartment to sign papers for a promotion and finds a party of 200 instead. Its called april fools day, you can see where this is going, trickery dickery doo. If this were true, the show wouldve ended up without a home, as vortexx ended in september 2014. A film that has been a longtime favorite of mine ever since i discovered it on vhs as a kid decades and decades ago, april fools day recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. April fools day 2018 may have fallen slap bang in the middle of the easter weekend, but that didnt stop a lot of pranks taking place. April fools day fred waltons protoscream we minored in. Watch april fools day movie trailers, exclusive videos, interviews from the cast, movie clips and more at. Tom hardy has responded to an april fools joke claiming he was taking over the lead in james bond 25. Everything you read today is all lies disguised as jokes. To mark the occasion, i was fortunate enough to round up several cast members, as well as director fred walton, to chat about the horror comedy that dared to turn the slasher subgenre on its head back in 1986.
Oh, and its japanese hashtag reference april fools day, so there is that as well. Apr 02, 2020 when viewed today, april fools days its all a gag trick ending has itself passed into cliche, the type of thing that would now happen halfway through a movie or tv episode before the plot thickens and people start dropping for real. Mar 30, 2020 the story for this one follows like most slashers. April fools day, sometimes called all fools day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery, although one theory dates its origins to the. I think that this year on april fools day that my wife and i are going to watch this film and the excellent slaughter high as its alternate title is april fools day as well to celebrate the day. Apr 03, 2020 brian collins, aka bc, has been watching horror movies since the age of 6, and twenty years later decided to put it to good use, both as a writer for bloodydisgusting as well as launching his own site, horror movie a day, which roger ebert once read and misunderstood the points that were being made. Is it because it had marked me when i was a little brat. Jun 25, 2017 my alltime favorite socalled horror movie ending because this is exactly something id pull on a friend. When viewed today, april fools days its all a gag trick ending has itself passed into cliche, the type of thing that would now happen halfway through a movie or tv episode before the plot thickens and people start dropping for real.
What it may lack in an official body count, april fools day more than makes up for with its whipsmart script, charismatic performances, and a whopper of an ending that i certainly wasnt expecting at all the first time i saw it. The ending really disappointed me, and it really was a shame because everything about this film was good, right up until the end. See the full list of april fools day cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. Plus, i feel like its a film that really rewards with multiple viewings, as it gives you a chance to pick up. This is a movie that, as enjoyable as it is for a full hour and a half, is defined by and will forever be remembered for its final few minutes.