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Brenda's Review of April Fool's Day 1986 *Spoilers* · Brenda's Horror Movie Reviews

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, this is Brenda, and I'm back with another horror movie review.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today's review is going to be on April Fool's Day from 1986, directed by Fred Walton, who also directed I Saw What You Did and When a Stranger Calls and When a Stranger Calls Back with Carol Kane.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has a really good cast that seems to work well together, but two of the cast members seem to really stand out to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have Deborah Foreman, she plays Muffy and Buffy, but she was also in Valley Girl, and then we have Thomas F.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wilson, who is better known as Biff in the Back to the Future movie.
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  SPEAKER_00: As always, the spoilers are coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have a group of college students that are all going to stay at Muffy's family's estate, which has a huge mansion on it, and it the property has to be accessed by boat, making them isolated from the mainland.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has some elements of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, and Agatha Christie's even mentioned in the movie.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the very beginning of the movie, we see a child getting a jack in a box for a birthday present.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this child grows up liking to play pranks.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the first ones played is when they're all on the boat going to the island.
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  SPEAKER_00: He gets crushed between the dock and the boat and has to be taken to the hospital.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once they arrive inside the mansion, they see little dolls in there, and that plays upon the Agatha Christie story, where I believe in that story it's little China figures.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as people die off, they start to disappear.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this movie, the dolls are found dressed like the people that are there at the mansion as they start to die off one by one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Since it is April Fool's Day, we have old school pranks in abundance.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have whoopee cushions, dribble glasses, collapsible chair legs, exploding cigars, um, doorknobs come off.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is one scene where somebody turns on a light switch, it turns on a different light, and they keep going back and forth.
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  SPEAKER_00: A bathroom sink faucet was turned to splash someone in the face.
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  SPEAKER_00: As they start to turn in for the night, they start finding weird things left in their rooms.
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  SPEAKER_00: One has newspaper clippings about people being killed.
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  SPEAKER_00: One girl finds ankle restraints, another finds a dominatrix mask.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have a death that night in the boathouse, and the next day there's a couple making out in there and they see the body floating through the floorboards.
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  SPEAKER_00: Muffy is found in the kitchen looking rough.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's cooking and her hair's a mess, and she's saying that she forgot to get dressed.
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  SPEAKER_00: The night before she was all put together, she was dressed cute, her makeup was done, her hair was done, so this just seemed completely out of character for her.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kit finds a picture with two little girls in it, and later finds on the basement wall that it has been marked like parents do to mark heights for Muffy and Buffy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's starting to click that Muffy and Buffy are twins.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kit and Rob are trying to escape by boat and they find a letter that states one of the St.
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  SPEAKER_00: John twins is an escape mental patient and had been institutionalized for the last three years.
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  SPEAKER_00: When it finally comes to a head, Kit and Rob are the only two that weren't in on the joke.
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  SPEAKER_00: They find out everyone is still alive and Muffy is about to inherit this place, but only if it can carry itself, so she's trying to turn it into a murder mystery weekend resort.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I would pay to go there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we ended up with a horror movie where nobody actually dies.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's go ahead and rate this bitch.
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  SPEAKER_00: Am I gonna give this movie a wine glass for being eerie?
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  SPEAKER_00: Nope.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I am gonna give the environment a wine glass.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love movies where people are cut off from the rest of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I can't even give this movie a wine glass on the evil scale, since once you know what is really happening and nobody dies, you know, everything's okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that leaves us with the empathy part.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no animals, no children, nothing there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So even while I'm sitting there watching this drinking my wine, there was nothing to make me feel anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am gonna give it two wine glasses for being entertaining.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: You know I love me an 80s movie.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm really only giving this movie three wine glasses.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll probably only watch this movie again if someone really wants to watch it with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: They'd have to say, hey Brenda, I've never seen April Fool's Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's share a bottle of wine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've sat through worse movies for some wine.
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  SPEAKER_00: People are starting to write in and suggest movies for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do prefer 80s movies, but I'll go outside of that box.
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  SPEAKER_00: If there's something obscure out there that you think I've never heard of, let me know.
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  SPEAKER_00: My email is bsstudios at myyahoo.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also have a YouTube channel, Brenda's Horror Movie Reviews.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can always message me there or on Facebook, and I'm starting to post little videos of me pulling what the next movie will be.
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  SPEAKER_00: The next movie is going to be The Stepfather from 1987.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, I am dying to know who is listening from Mankato, Minnesota.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't thought about that city since Little House on the Prairie the first time around.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would love to start giving shout outs to whoever is crazy enough to listen to this.
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  SPEAKER_00: So reach out to BS Studios at myyahoo.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Until next time.