Cool Horror Videos: April Fool’s Day retro trailer

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

WHEN A STRANGER CALLS director Fred Walton's clever 1986 slasher film APRIL FOOL'S DAY (WATCH IT HERE) starring Deborah Foreman (VALLEY GIRL), Amy Steel (FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2), and Thomas F. Wilson (BACK TO THE FUTURE Trilogy) is one of my favorite underappreciated flicks. 

And being that today is, you know, April Fool's Day, we thought it'd be fun to share the film's classic, retro trailer with you guys today. Enjoy!

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For those of you out there that don't know, the film centers on

A group of college students who decide to spend spring break at the secluded island estate of their wealthy classmate, Muffy St. John (Deborah Foreman). But what starts out as a fun, hedonistic weekend turns into something more sinister. Muffy is very fond of practical jokes, and sets up numerous gags throughout her mansion. But, when friends begin going missing and turn up dead, they realize that they're trapped on the isolated isle with a mysterious and brutal killer.

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Fred Walton (WHEN A STRANGER CALLS) directed APRIL FOOL'S DAY from a screenplay written by Danilo Bach (BEVERLY HILLS COP). Frank Mancuso, Jr. produced and the flick featured Deborah Foreman (VALLEY GIRL), Amy Steel (FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2), and Thomas F. Wilson (BACK TO THE FUTURE Trilogy) along with Deborah Goodrich, Ken Olandt, Griffin O'Neal, Leah King Pinsent, Clayton Rohner, and Jay Baker.

Paramount unleashed the underappreciated slasher back on March 27, 1986.