10 Times You Totally Thought Horror Movie Characters Were Dead (But They Weren't)

April Fool's Day revolves around a group of college students who are murdered by an unknown assailant while vacationing in a remote island estate on April Fool's Day weekend.

The film's title and setting are so on the nose that audiences likely end up confident that the film won't pull off the most obvious of plot twists, that the kills throughout the film are actually part of an elaborate prank.

And so, when characters are decapitated and stabbed mostly off-screen, it feels like we're being set up for a climactic reveal that, indeed, these kills really did happen.

But as it turns out, all seven "deaths" in the film were faked by the mansion's owner, Muffy (Deborah Foreman), who wants to turn the mansion into a murder mystery resort.

She had a special effects artist friend help create convincing gore, and all of the "victims" were ultimately in on it.

Director Fred Walton even has the gall to throw in one additional rug-pull, when it seems like Buffy actually does get her throat slit for real in the film's final moments, only for it to be revealed as yet another gag. Oh, you.