At a debutante party to announce Torrence (Scout Taylor-Compton), an April Fool's Day prank goes tragically wrong and someone ends up dead. All of these people are rich, popular, and influential, so of course they can get away with murder. Someone or something knows that one of them had something to do with the death, though, and is determined to prove it was no accident.
One year to the day after the accident, the group "involved" in the death, Desiree (Taylor Cole) and her brother Blaine (Josh Henderson), Barbie (Jennifer Siebel) and her husband Peter (Samuel Child), Ryan (Joe Egender), and Torrence, all receive letters requesting their presence at the graveside on April 1st. From there, everything starts to go downhill for them all very quickly. They are told that they will all die one by one until one of them confesses to the murder.
Sure enough, as the bodies start piling up, the list of suspects decreases quickly. With every death, they start to think they know who or what is after them. Is it really the ghost of Milan picking them off one by one? Or maybe it's one of the group out to avenge her death.
April Fool's Day isn't really a slasher horror. Honestly, the bloodiest scene is in one of the movie scenes that Torrence is shooting. I really don't know why it's the "unrated" edition, I didn't see anything that would warrant more than an R rating. But it is a good psychological thriller. Throughout the whole movie, we first thought it was one person, then another. Eventually we figured out what the twist was at the end before it was revealed, but then they got us with yet another twist. At the end, we really liked the movie. There is a good deal of humor in it to keep you occupied even if you don't like horror movies.
The one drawback is that there are no additional features on the DVD. I really would have liked some outtakes because I bet they had some really humorous moments in the filming. I mean when you have Miss South Carolina giving advice like "Marry rich and don't get fat," you know they had to die laughing a lot. Still April Fool's Day is a pretty good psychological horror. If you like that kind of movie, I recommend you check it out!
