{"id":32886,"date":"2020-03-20T23:45:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T03:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=32886"},"modified":"2020-03-20T23:48:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T03:48:42","slug":"april-fools-day-1986-collectors-edition-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/20\/april-fools-day-1986-collectors-edition-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fool\u2019s Day (1986): Collector\u2019s Edition [Blu-Ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I love \u201cApril Fool\u2019s Day,\u201d and I say that as someone that originally hated it. It took years for me to come around on it, mainly because in a decade where we got nothing but slasher movies, we were given one. But we also weren\u2019t given one, either. In either case, if you\u2019re going in to \u201cApril Fool\u2019s Day,\u201d it embraces its inherent silliness and mounts tension to be a pretty good statement about the slasher sub-genre while also having a good old time with the audience. It\u2019s become a favorite of the sub-genre, and indicates a point where studios were beginning to satirize the tropes of the sub-genre.<\/p>\n

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Wealthy Muffy St. John (the gorgeous Deborah Foreman) invites her college friends up to her parents\u2019 secluded island home for the time of their lives on their favorite holiday.\u00a0As soon as the kids arrive on the island, events spiral out of control and soon enough guests are slowly lured in to traps by an unseen assailant. What starts out as a weekend of harmless \u201cApril Fool\u2019s Day\u201d pranks turns into a bloody battle for survival, while guest Nan tries to figure out the identity of the culprit or culprits.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cApril Fool\u2019s Day\u201d is a tough movie to pigeon hole as it functions as a slasher movie, and can also be appreciated as a murder mystery, dark comedy, and occasional satire. Fred Walton\u2019s genre entry is a movie fans have been wanting on a good format and treatment for years, and it\u2019s finally given a great restoration allowing for a new generation to discover it. Walton\u2019s horror film almost seems to get off on messing with the audience, and it is fun trying to decide if we should trust our eyes. There\u2019s just so much here that feels like call backs to classic horror with a ton of red herrings, mysterious characters, twists and turns, and an island that houses a dark secret or two.<\/p>\n

Thankfully the shift in tones does work in favor of the movie, preventing it from feeling too monotonous and enhancing the overall experience. If you don\u2019t love what Fred Walton and Paramount have to offer horror buffs, you\u2019ll at least be able to agree you left it with an amused smile.<\/p>\n

Shout Factory brings their A game for fans, including, \u201cHorror with A Twist \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m doing it for you people. It\u2019s not for me,\u201d an interview with director Fred Walton. The two parter explores his discovery of loving movies at an early age, his entrance in to loving horror, how it followed him in to college with \u201cWhen a Stranger Calls\u201d and his run on \u201cApril Fool\u2019s Day.\u201d Here we talk about his work with the crew, working with various actors, his disappointment at how the film was marketed as a slasher (he disagrees) and how it disappointed fans expecting a new Jason. It\u2019s a fun hour with a great director. \u201cWell of Lies\u201d is a sixteen minutes interview with actress Deborah Goodrich Royce, who began her life as a dancer, broke in to commercials, her work on the film, how she found out later that it\u2019d become a cult classic, and her pitch for a sequel that never happened.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fun segment. \u201cLooking Forward to Dessert\u201d is a seventeen minutes interview with actor Clayton Rohner, who discusses working on the film, breaking in to acting, and the various alternate endings for the film. \u201cBloody Unforgettable\u201d is a twenty six minutes interview with composer Charles Bernstein who discusses his music, and his inspirations, his work with Wes Craven on \u201cNightmare on Elm Street,\u201d and working on the movie. \u201cThe Eye of Deception\u201d is a seventeen minutes interview with cinematographer Charles Minsky who discusses how he fell in to cinematography, and working in the industry, as well as working alongside Walton for the film. Finally, there is the original theatrical trailer, and three original TV spots.<\/p>\n

For more on “April Fool’s Day,” read our more extensive take on it in “You Have to See This!<\/a>“<\/strong><\/em>
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