I watched two movies with my mom today!
We started with
April Fool’s Day (1986). It was my first time watching it, and when I tell you that it’s one of the most ridiculous movies I’ve ever seen… it was so stupid from the moment it started to the moment it ended. All of the characters were annoying and not likeable at all, and I was honestly excited when my mom told me that it was a horror movie and that all of them would end up dying. Only for us to get to the part where we know who the killer is, and they corner one of the last surviving characters while her boyfriend is locked in a room… and it turns out that it was all a big April Fool’s Day joke. Not a single character actually died, and it was Deborah Foreman’s character practicing to start up some sort of whodunit horror experience business.
I wasn’t necessarily
surprised by the plot twist. There were a bunch of other pranks that happened earlier in the movie, and the movie’s name is literally April Fool’s Day, so I had definitely considered that it could all end up being a big joke in the end. Plus, the movie was just so unserious, there were too many horror movie cliches, and the killer was acting
too unnerving. Not in a way that was actually unnerving, but was just overkill. I honestly should’ve realized from the start that it would all be a prank, but I was honestly hoping that it wouldn’t be. The characters were
so unlikeable.
At the end, one of the characters seemingly slit “the killer’s” throat, and I was like oh??? Is it a horror movie after all?? But no, just another prank.
My mom mainly wanted to watch it because Leah Pinsent is in it, and she’s friends with her on Facebook, which she takes pride in. It was a silly movie and not one I’ll likely watch again, but it
did admittedly make my mom and I laugh at times, so it gets redemption points for that.
The second movie we watched was
Misery (1990)! I have seen it before and did enjoy it, but it’s been so long that it was kind of like watching it for the first time again.
I still enjoyed it! The best character was of course Misery the pig, but Kathy Bates’ acting was enthralling as usual. It’s sad that she’s the only living
Misery actor left. Some of the actors that filled smaller roles in the movie might still be around, but I can’t find much info on them and none of them have been in anything in years, so I’m not sure.