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10 Best Movies Like April Fool's Day

If you loved April Fool's Day, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
The Crazies

The Crazies

2010★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to April Fool's Day for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane....

#2
Black Christmas

Black Christmas

2019★ 4.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to April Fool's Day for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A group of sorority pledges are stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young women discover that the killer is part of an underground campus conspira...

#3
Apt Pupil

Apt Pupil

1998★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to April Fool's Day for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wante...

#4
Slaughter High

Slaughter High

1986★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to April Fool's Day for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Eight different people are invited to their 10-year high school reunion at their now-closed down high school where a former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is there to...

#5
Zombieland

Zombieland

2009★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to April Fool's Day for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are ...

#6
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to April Fool's Day for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....