A decade before Scream sent up slasher flicks, another comedy thriller had fun with the genre. 1986's April Fool's Day was produced by Frank Mancuso Jr., son of then-Paramount chairman Frank Mancuso Sr.
Together, father and son had produced five sequels to 1980's sleeper hit Friday the 13th. Burned out on Jason, Mancuso Jr. wanted to try something different for his first solo foray.
He selected a script by Danilo Bach, who had achieved massive success for Paramount writing 1984's Beverly Hills Cop. April Fool's Day's story brought a group of college spring breakers to the island home of Muffy St.
John (played by Valley Girl star Deborah Foreman) for a weekend of fun and practical joking, only to see them turn up as corpses one by one.
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