April Fools Day was written by Friday the 13th worker Frank Mancuso Jr, and it is "your average mid 80's slasher". The big gimmick and indeed the big spoiler can be found in the title, and being one that always found the "pranks" in horror movies rather annoying, I have to admit that it was fine in this movie.
In the beginning, we meet group of friends Muffy, Nikki, Kit, Arch, Chaz...the list goes on. They are your average college kids escaping to a woods filled holiday, and they're playing pranks on each other nonstop as they pull into the rural escape. They're basically bland, and you'll wonder what the heck Biff from Back to Future was doing in this movie, and wish he was as fun as he was in that movie.
That aside, soon enough it seems as if someone is after the kids, and they're being killed off and the bodies are stacking up. We soon enough follow final girl Nikki as she and Rob are among the last left, and things are finally shaping into a direction to the killer. Then, as I said, the spoiler is revealed that it was all an elaborate prank, and we're left wondering what this movie was.
Now, I'm not dumping on it. This movie, first and foremost, is totally fine. The acting is good, the music is fine, the deaths are plentiful and they're decent. The tension is sort of gone, and the whole direction is predictable, but overall, it's like I said in the beginning, it is "your average 80's slasher". Barely distinguishable. It's there, and you may watch it a few days before Halloween, and you may have a decent time doing so, and that may be totally cool.
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