8 Horror Movies Where The Killer Was Meant To Be Someone Else

1986's April Fool's Day is a rather unique beast, in that it's a slasher movie where zero characters actually die.

Of course, for the majority of the film's 89-minute run time, the audience is under the belief that a slew of disposable teens have been offed in various blood-soaked ways. That is until the final act pulls the rug out from under our watching eyes, explaining how the 'deaths' seen were all part of a test run for a mansion-set staged horror getaway from host Muffy.

In the original script for April Fool's Day - and a scene that was shot but never used - there was one permanent death, with that carried out by Ken Olandt's Rob Ferris.

That first plan was for the film to play as it eventually did, just with a handful of the characters pulling one final prank on Muffy. Things go awry when Griffin O'Neal's Skip loses himself in a rage and attempts to kill Muffy - and from there, Rob ends up killing Skip in order to stop his nuts behaviour.

So while Rob wasn't meant to be the killer in a traditional horror movie sense, he was intended to be the only character to actually get his hands dirty with murder.