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Eight people are invited to their alma mater for their 10-year reunion, where a fellow former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is out to seek revenge.
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Carol
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Marty
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Skip
Donna Yeager ...
Stella (as Donna Yaeger)
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Joe
Billy Hartman ...
Frank
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Ted (as Michael Saffran)
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Carl
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Nancy
Sally Cross ...
Susan
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Shirley
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Coach
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Manny
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Digby
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Jester (uncredited)

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George Dugdale
Mark Ezra
Peter Mackenzie Litten ... (as Peter Litten)

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George Dugdale ... (written by) &
Mark Ezra ... (written by) &
Peter Mackenzie Litten ... (written by) (as Peter Litten)

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Stephen Minasian ... producer (as Steve Minasian)
Dick Randall ... producer

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Harry Manfredini

Cinematography by

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Alan Pudney

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Jim Connock

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Geoff Sharpe

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Craig Berkeley ... makeup artist (as Craig Berkely)
Alison Hall ... makeup artist

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Laurence Rooke ... production manager (as Lawrence Rooke)

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Chick Norris ... assistant director

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Aram Allan ... design assistant
Terry Allen ... property master
John Armstrong ... carpenter
Fred Bishop ... painter
Andrew Crimin ... construction manager
Paul Crimin ... carpenter

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Dick Hunt ... sound mixer
Dave Pierce ... boom operator
Ted Ryan ... dubbing mixer

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John Humphreys ... prosthetics
Peter Mackenzie Litten ... special effects designer (as Peter Litten)
Robert Turner ... special effects rigger

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Rex Neville ... opticals
Richard Perkis ... mechanical designer (as Richard Pirkis)

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Michael Connor ... camera operator (as Mike Connor)
Len Duncan ... chief electrician
Len Emery ... gaffer
Jasper Fforde ... focus puller (as Jaspar Fforde)
John Fonseca ... still photographer
Richard Gibb ... additional camera operator
Ricky Hall ... grip
Randall Larsen ... still photographer
John Ward ... steadicam operator / director of photography: additional photography (uncredited)

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Isabelle Blaire ... seamstress
Lee Scott ... wardrobe

Script and Continuity Department

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Emily Copping ... continuity

Additional Crew

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Chris Arkell ... production accountant
Nick Dugdale ... unit runner
Mike Halford ... production assistant
Ed Newstead ... titles
Corliss Randall ... assistant to producers

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Plot Summary

Nerd Marty Rantzen is an outcast at Doddsville County High School. He is seduced by his sexy classmate Carol and they go to the girls' locker room to have sex. However, it is a cruel April Fool's prank from eight mates who record him naked and humiliate him until the moment the coach stops them. Martin goes to the laboratory to work on his science project and two mates give him a marijuana cigarette with something mixed in that makes him feel sick. While he goes to the bathroom, Skip messes with his substances. Marty returns to the lab and accidentally provokes a fire in the place and is disfigured by nitric acid. Years later, eight former students receive an invitation to a reunion in the high school on April 1, and Carol calls her friend Susan about it. They find a derelict locked school, but when it starts to rain, they break into the school and learn from former janitor Digby that the school has been abandoned for five years and will be demolished. Further, now he is the caretaker and will leave the place at midnight. They find a room with beer, cakes, and candies and decide to celebrate the reunion. But soon they learn that this is a malignant plot of Marty seeking revenge and they are locked in the school. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Taglines There's Horror in the Halls... Lynching in the Lunchroom... Murder in Metal Shop. See more »
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Also Known As
  • The Last Laugh (United States)
  • April Fool's Day (India, English title)
  • April Fool's Day (United States)
  • Le Jour des fous (France)
  • April Fool's Day (France)
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Trivia Writer/directors George Dugdale and Peter Litten later said they were both worried that working on the film might have contributed to Simon Scuddamore's suicide (Scuddamore died of an intentional drug overdose shortly after filming ended). However, at Scuddamore's funeral, his mother told Dugdale and Litten that her son had been dealing with depression and that one of his main sources of joy toward the end of his life was working on the film. See more »
Goofs In each sequential or consecutive opening scene involving Marty inside the school lab, it is way obvious that the camera is jostling the shelf containing the nitrite acid. Two times, he is standing away from the shelf, so he cannot possibly bump it. And another time, he is putting the bottle back in its spot, after pouring some into a beaker. However such maneuver would not cause the shelf to simply wiggle or move. And no chemical lab would have a flimsily constructed shelf, holding very dangerous or toxic chemicals. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Don't Scream: It's Only a Movie! (1985). See more »
Quotes Stella: Talk dirty, Frank! Talk dirty!
Frank: Um... tits.
Stella: DIRTY dirty!
Frank: Um... fuck. Ah, tits. Screw.
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