Managing to satirize the dime-a-dozen slashers of the 1980s while executing a perfect rug-pull, April Fool‘s Day remains impressive after forty years. Its succeeds both on its surface level presentation and as a meta commentary, albeit with better production values than most of the films it lovingly sends up. Maybe its best feature is a sense of fun, a light-heartedness, that often gets forgotten in more modern slashers and slasher satires.

Rating: 5 Mary O’Reilly O’Toole O’Sheas out of 5 

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