April Fool's Day (1986) with Gretchen McNeil

Gathering for a weekend at the sprawling island home of their friend Muffy, a gaggle of Vassar students find themselves in a bit of a pickle as they start disappearing one at a time, apparently at the hand of a murderer who kills them in a series of increasingly bizarre ways. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-25:33 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 25:34-1:06:39 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 1:06:40-1:24:19 Director Fred Walton Screenplay Danilo Bach Featuring Lloyd Berry, Deborah Foreman, Deborah Goodrich, Tom Heaton, Mike Nomad, Ken Olandt, Griffin O’Neal, Leah Pinsent, Clayton Rohner, Amy Steel, Thomas F. Wilson Gretchen McNeil is the author of several young adult novels for Disney*Hyperion and Balzer + Bray including Possess, 3:59, Relic, I’m Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Get Even, Get Dirty, and Ten, as well as the horror/comedy novels #murdertrending—the #1 YALSA Teens’ Top Ten pick for 2019— #murderfunding, and #noescape. Her most recent novel for Disney*Hyperion is Dig Two Graves, pitched as a YA Strangers on a Train, to be followed by Three Drops of Blood in 2023 and Four-Letter Word in 2024. Gretchen’s books have been published in more than a dozen languages all over the world. Ten: Murder Island, the film adaptation of Ten starring China Anne McClain, premiered on Lifetime in 2017, and Get Even and Get Dirty have been adapted as the series “Get Even” and “Rebel Cheer Squad: a Get Even series” for the BBC and Netflix. Gretchen is repped by Ginger Clark of Ginger Clark Literary. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from “April Fool's Day” by Charles Bernstein.     For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.  If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating.       Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram.