We all know - well most of us - that movies are fiction, unless they're based on fact.
When we watch movies we buy into the plot, the script, the acting. That's the whole appeal of a movie. It's escapism.
So when I decided to watch April Fool's Day I was buying into a 1980s slasher movie. It's not real but it's horror and it's basically fun.
But when you've watched a whole movie that's 90 minutes in duration and you get to the end and you find out it wasn't a horror film at all but a joke and no killings happened and the characters were lies too, you ask yourself, what was the point of that movie? NO POINT at all.
Of course the clue people might say is in the title, but there were April Fools jokes played before the 'killings' so why not leave it at that.
Imagine other horror movies with the same ending. Psycho - Norman Bates goes up to Lila Loomis in the cellar and shows his has a rubber knife. It's all been a joke and Arbogast comes out and is alive and laughing too. Marion wasn't stabbed to death, she never stole any money. All a joke.
Imagine Rosemary's Baby revealed as an elaborate joke at the end. Haha. Not!
Salem's Lot, yeah that was a joke too. See what I mean.
April Fool's Day 1986 was a complete waste of time. I'm shocked it has such a massive following. It had no point to it. It's staggering more people aren't angry and feel cheated that the whole film is meaningless.
I'd give it less than 1 out of 10 if I could.
When we watch movies we buy into the plot, the script, the acting. That's the whole appeal of a movie. It's escapism.
So when I decided to watch April Fool's Day I was buying into a 1980s slasher movie. It's not real but it's horror and it's basically fun.
But when you've watched a whole movie that's 90 minutes in duration and you get to the end and you find out it wasn't a horror film at all but a joke and no killings happened and the characters were lies too, you ask yourself, what was the point of that movie? NO POINT at all.
Of course the clue people might say is in the title, but there were April Fools jokes played before the 'killings' so why not leave it at that.
Imagine other horror movies with the same ending. Psycho - Norman Bates goes up to Lila Loomis in the cellar and shows his has a rubber knife. It's all been a joke and Arbogast comes out and is alive and laughing too. Marion wasn't stabbed to death, she never stole any money. All a joke.
Imagine Rosemary's Baby revealed as an elaborate joke at the end. Haha. Not!
Salem's Lot, yeah that was a joke too. See what I mean.
April Fool's Day 1986 was a complete waste of time. I'm shocked it has such a massive following. It had no point to it. It's staggering more people aren't angry and feel cheated that the whole film is meaningless.
I'd give it less than 1 out of 10 if I could.