This is the reason other April Fool's Day was renamed Slaughter High. Paramount had the upper hand in the matter and this was the bigger budget shoot, complete with much more exotic filming locations, expensive set pieces and an original score by a major soundtrack composer (Charles Bernstein (his other credits include Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)). I think it's a pretty smart, and underated slasher flick. I am glad to see that in the last few years it has steadily gained cult status. Some have also, rightly I think, compared it to a modernizing of Agatha Cristie's Ten Little Indians, with people dying as if they were in a Friday the 13th or Halloween movie, instead from exotic poisons in wine, etc.
For Gamers!
OK, that was not an abvious April Fools joke (bet, hey did you notice the release date?0 Here's one that much more obvious, also from 2009:
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