

April Fool's Day
Guess who's going to be the life of the party?
On April Fool's Day weekend, a group of college friends gather together at a secluded island mansion to celebrate their final year of school, where they soon become prey for an unseen murderer.
TMDB
6.0/10
401 votes
IMDb
Not rated yet
View on IMDb
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5M
- Box office
- —
- Language
- English
- island
- murder
- teen movie
- slasher
- april fool's day
- canuxploitation
- college friends
Top billed cast










Behind the camera
Where to watch
All optionsAvailability for India. Provided by JustWatch through the TMDB API.
Rent
Gallery












Videos
Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR27 Mar 1986
United KingdomGB
- Physical15DVD30 Jun 2003
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1627 Mar 1986
GermanyDE
- Theatrical10 Nov 1989
Frequently asked questions
April Fool's Day was released on 27 March 1986.
Audience reviews
3- J7/10
John Chard
11/2/2014
Muffy the ham-pie slayer! A group of college buddies convene at a friends isolated abode and get killed off one by one… Great fun, Fred Walton, Frank Mancuso Jr. and Danilo Bach tap cheekily into the 1980s obsession with slasher films, and produce a self aware horror movie of mighty dark comedy proportions. Quite often when film makers try to laugh as they bite the hand that feeds them they fall flat on their f…
- J8/10
JPV852
3/14/2020
Fun horror movie that is on the predictable side but I still found it pretty entertaining. The ensemble cast was alright with the most well known face, at now, is of course Thomas F. Wilson (Biff). Not sure how high up this is amongst the holiday horror movies, but I liked it. **3.75/5**
- W
Wuchak
8/18/2020
_**April Fools slasher**_ Ten youths about to graduate college celebrate at a remote island mansion in the Great Northwest, soon to be inherited by one them (Deborah Foreman). Unfortunately, they start getting hacked one-by-one. Who’s the killer? "April Fool’s Day" (1986) is a slasher/horror in the cabin-in-the-woods mold; it’s just that the ‘cabin’ in this case is a magnificent mansion. The presence of…
Member reviews
Sign in to rate and review. Browsing stays free and open.
Sign inMember comments
0Sign in to post a comment. Browsing stays free and open.
Sign in











