Ok, first off to eliminate wrong answers, I am a horror movie fan, so I know the film is not the Haunting or House on Haunted Hill etc.
here is the info I can remember:
– most likely made in the 80's, maybe the 70's
– definately was in color not B/W
– This used to air on HBO during the day, I remember watching it all the time on summer vacation so, with that being said it had to be PG or PG13.
– It was a haunted house movie.
– I remember people showing up during bad weather and all staying at the house. there were ghost sitings and people were dying off. there was a scene where the group was trying to get into the attic but had some difficulty doing so. They eventually do and they find odd things such as a rocking horse that they think was moving and a small wooden baby cradle with a doll in it. once the doll was moved by someone it had maggots coming out. there was also a scene where a woman was washing her face in a sink and something forced her face in the scolding water cause skin to fall off. the end of the film had a scene were a woman was being chased and she found a tunnel behind a bookshelf and started running at the end she saw all the people that were killed hanging out in a den and it was finally revealed that the whole thing was a joke, kind of like it was set up to be like one of the murder mystery nights that people pay to do, however she wasnt told about it.
Any help or ideas is appreciated.
The movie you are describing I believe is called "April Fool's Day".
From NetFlix:
A group of college friends gather together at rich heiress Muffy's (Deborah Foreman) island mansion to celebrate their final year of school. They soon discover that each has a hidden secret, but as the secrets are revealed, those people end up dead. or maybe they're not really dead; they could be part of a very cruel April Fool's joke. the hostess supposedly knows what's going on, but maybe she's not the one orchestrating the deaths. …
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