April Fool's Day DVD 1986 / Directed by Fred Walton / Starring: Jay Baker, Deborah Foreman, Deborah Goodrich, Ken Olandt, Griffin O'Neal, Leah King Pinsent, Clayton Rohner, Amy Steel

UPC 7312065005719

REGION 2 PAL DVD

AUDIO: ENGLISH 5.1, French 2.0, Spanish 2.0, German 2.0, Italian mono

SUBTITLES: English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

TOTAL RUNTIME: 85 MINUTES

English Summary:

April Fool's Day is a 1986 American mystery slasher film directed by Fred Walton, produced by Frank Mancuso, Jr., and starring Deborah Foreman, Amy Steel, Ken Olandt, Deborah Goodrich, Thomas F. Wilson, and Leah Pinsent. The plot tells about a group of college students vacationing on an island estate owned by their wealthy classmate, which is infiltrated by an unknown assailant. A remake of the same name was released direct-to-video in 2008.

Plot

On the weekend leading up to April Fools' Day, a group of college friends, consisting of Harvey, Nikki, Rob, Skip, Nan, Chaz, Kit and Arch, gather to celebrate spring break by spending the weekend at the island mansion of Skip's cousin, Muffy St. John. The tone is set almost immediately, with Muffy preparing details around the house when she finds an old jack-in-the-box she remembers in a flashback sequence. Her friends, meanwhile, joke around on the pier while awaiting the ferry. En route to the island, as their antics become more boisterous, local deckhand Buck is seriously injured in a gruesome accident.

Once on the island, it turns out that Muffy has set up a variety of pranks throughout the mansion, ranging from simple gags such as a whoopee cushion and dribble glasses and exploding cigars to more complex and disturbing pranks, such as an audiotape of a baby crying in someone's room and heroin paraphernalia in a guest's wardrobe. In spite of this, the group try to relax, until Skip goes missing, and Kit catches a glimpse of what looks like his dead body. Soon, Arch and Nan also go missing. During a search for the pair, Nikki falls into the island's well, where she finds the severed heads of Skip and Arch, along with the dead body of Nan. The remaining group members then discover that the phone lines are dead and there is no way to get off the island until Monday.

Cast

• Jay Baker as Harvey Edison, Jr.
• Deborah Foreman as Muffy/Buffy St. John
• Deborah Goodrich as Nikki Brashares
• Ken Olandt as Rob Ferris
• Griffin O'Neal as Skip St. John
• Leah Pinsent as Nan Youngblood
• Clayton Rohner as Chaz Vyshinski
• Amy Steel as Kit Graham
• Thomas F. Wilson as Arch Cummings
• Tom Heaton as Constable Potter
• Mike Nomad as Buck
• Lloyd Beery as Ferryman
• Pat Barlow as Clara