UK, 1986
90m
35mm film, colour, 1.85:1
mono, English
A British horror film directed by George Dugdale, Mark Ezra and Peter Litten.
Plot Summary
A shy young boy is horribly disfigured when a high school prank goes wrong. Many years later, his class holds a reunion and his former classmates are picked off one-by-one by a mysterious serial killer.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: George Dugdale, Mark Ezra, Peter Litten
Copyright 1985 by Spectacular Trading Co.
A Steve Minasian and Dick Randall production of a George Dugdale, Mark Ezra, Peter Litten film
Produced by: Steve Minasian & Dick Randall
Written by: George Dugdale, Mark Ezra, Peter Litten
Director of Photography: Alan Pudney
Editor: Jim Connock
Music: Harry Manfredini
Sound Mixer: Dick Hunt
Wardrobe: Lee Sccott
Make-up: Alison Hall & Craig Berkeley
Prosthetics: John Humphreys
Special Effects: Coast to Coast Productions
Cast
Caroline Munro (Carol)
Simon Scuddamore (Marty [Rantzen])
Kelly Baker (Nancy)
Sally Cross (Susan)
Billy Hartman (Frank)
Carmine Iannaccone (Skip Pollack)
Gary Martin (Joe)
Michael Saffran (Ted Harrison)
Josephine Scandi (Shirley)
John Segal (Carl Putney)
Donna Yeager (Stella)
Marc Smith (Coach)
Dick Randall (Manny)
Jon Clark (Digby)
Alternative Titles
April Fool’s Day – working title/re-release title
Jolly Killer – Italy
Le jour des fous – France
Die Todesparty – West Germany
Links
See also
Friday the 13th (1980)
Extracts included in
Don’t Scream It’s Only a Movie (1989)
References
Books
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) p.424
- Caroline Munro, First Lady of Fantasy: A Complete Annotated Record of Film and Television Appearances by Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter pp.88-91 – credits, synopsis, review
- Educational Institutions in Horror Film: A History of Mad Professors, Student Bodies, and Final Exams by Andrew L. Grunzke pp.102-103, 112, 127-128, 186, 188
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.272, 281, 324, 351
- The Films of the Eighties by Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan p.524
- Horror and Science Fiction Films IV by Donald C. Willis p.460
- Horror Films of the 1980s by John Kenneth Muir pp.540-541 – credits, synopsis, review
- The Pocket Essential: Slasher Movies p.87 – credits, review (by Mark Whitehead)
