Why rich people are Dicks.

#17 - April Fools Day - 1986

"Oh Ha Ha. HA HA HA HA! That's really funny, you guys. Really funny! Fuck you!
-- Kit

So as is becoming the standard operating procedure for Friday nights, I was getting a little worse for wear, hence the late update. Still, we're past the halfway point now! So it should only be great films from here on out.

Anyway, this little ditty from 1986 is a slasher film without a slasher, kind of. It cribs very loosely from Agatha Christies 'Ten Little Indians' (See also, 'Identity'). As it is, the story concerns group of teens who go to their friends private island for the weekend. On the way there a ferry worker suffers an accident, nearly killing him. An accident that the teens (in)directly cause. They're racked with guilt for the rest of the journey but seeing as this is a film, and they are teens, they soon forget about that.

The Island is owned by their friend Muffy (Probably not the same one from 'Night Of The Creeps') and she's extremely jolly and cordial in a way that shows she simply has something to hide. They share a nice meal and head to Bed, where they find all sorts of trinkets (Bondage gear etc) that shows whoever left them has a good idea of their secrets. Then one by one the teens go missing and body parts turn up...

Like I said, this is a slasher film without the slasher. We don't see the stalkings or the dispatches. We're just treated to the aftermath as a couple of limbs are left behind and the kids run around in a panic. It also helps that one of the kids is played by Biff Tannen himself, the erstwhile Thomas F. Wilson.

In that respect the film is a mystery rather than a slasher, but honestly, it's not THAT hard to work out what's going on. But the film never really takes itself seriously enough anyway, so it's a neat way to pass a (Drunken) hour and a half. It probably doesn't quite belong on this list, it's more of a mystery/comedy than anything else. But it's always in the Horror section in the shops, so perhaps they have a looser definition of the term than I do.