SPOILERS: I used to catch this on TV when I was young and I always kind of liked it. It scared me well enough, even after learning the ending which reveals there was never really anything to be scared of.
Click here for a list of all other films reviewed and considered for this October 2012 series of horror reviews.
It’s a nice little surprise to discover that a horror
film I’d always assumed was really bad turns out to be far less bad than it has
any right to be. I used to watch the slasher film April Fool’s Day when I caught it on cable. It was never the most
popular within the genre. Having been released amid a sea of similar films, it
just never had the chance to catch on as strongly. It didn’t have the built in
franchise of killers like Jason, Freddy, and Michael, who were already deep
into sequels and strong cult followings by 1986.
