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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled
When Muffy St. John invited her college friends up to her parents' secluded island home for the time of their lives, she just forgot to tell them it just might be the last time of their lives.As soon as the kids arrive on the island, someone starts trimming the guest list...one murder at a time. And what starts out as a weekend of harmless "April Fool's Day" pranks turns into a bloody battle for survival. It's just what you'd expect from the producer who brought you Body Parts, Species, and Friday the 13th Parts III-V.
"Compared to other similar 80s teen-flicks, this is a very fun and likable little film." Andreas Samuelson, SlasherPool.com
"Classic horror cheese." Christopher Null, FilmCritic.com
Editor's Note
Last year's April Fool's Day party ended tragically. Will this year be any different? As popular and rich Desiree Cartier plans for the big day, she and five of her friends get to work planning a master prank. Little do they know, the six teens will become the next victims of an April Fool's Day killer.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo | | Audio: French Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 9/23/2008 |
| Running Time: 91 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2008 | | Catalog ID: 24351 | | UPC: 00043396243514 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | DVD Times 6 of 10
April Fool's Day plays like a toned-down Friday The 13th, gaining its chauvinistic attributes from PG-13-styled sexual innuendo (you know the type where giddy high school girls read 'what kind of orgasm does your man give you' from teen market magazines) whilst sticking itself together on the well-worn conventions of the slasher movie, constantly pulling the wool over its audience's eyes with the shrewdness of George Pollock's Ten Little Indians and the delightful fun of Robert Moore's Murder By Death...April Fool's Day is a slasher film that probably deserves to be more widely known given that it is a reasonably effective film that tries to be inventive within its genre constraints. Perhaps at the time it was just a little too passe to be memorable or it lacked the gratuitous violence people wanted to see, but regardless, it begs to be seen on DVD and will gain its cult audience on the medium, no doubt. There's also the added bonus of seeing Thomas F. Wilson's (Biff from Back To The Future) energetic, comic performance, who steals almost every scene he's in. The DVD is bare-bones but the film looks and sounds superb given its low budget and age, so is worth picking up if you're already a fan, like silly but funny murder mysteries or moderately violent slasher films. - Daniel Stephens
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