What begins as your typical Slasher setup turns inside out by it’s closing. April Fool’s Day has much more going than most of the era horror films. Part pop confection. Part commentary on the Slasher film itself. The film is a whole lot of fun that shouldn’t be ruined. 

A group of recent college graduates gather together on their rich friend, Muffy’s (Deborah Foreman), and yes, we said Muffy, family’s estate on a remote lake island. Muffy’s friend are your…

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I think I was watching the wrong Richard Gere. Throughout my childhood Gere was the star of Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, Sommersby*, An Officer and a Gentleman… romantic figures etched by the charismatic actor with a distant sort of mystery. It’s not the kind of work that a young teenage male is drawn to. It wasn’t until the last few years that I started to examine Gere’s work, seeing the darker side that was always…