| The Dorm That Dripped Blood | |
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 Original 1982 theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | Stephen Carpenter Jeffrey Obrow |
| Written by | Stephen Carpenter Stacey Giachino |
| Screenplay by | Stephen Carpenter Jeffrey Obrow Stacey Giachino |
| Produced by | Stacey Giachino Jeffrey Obrow |
| Starring | Laurie Lapinski
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| Cinematography | Stephen Carpenter |
| Edited by | Stephen Carpenter
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| Music by | Christopher Young |
Production company | Jeff Obrow Productions |
| Distributed by | New Image Releasing[1] |
Release date |
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Running time | 84 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $150,000[1] |
| Box office | > $215,000[1] |
The Dorm That Dripped Blood, originally released under the title Pranks,[i] is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow, written by Carpenter and Stacey Giachino,[3] and starring Laurie Lapinski, Stephen Sachs, David Snow, Pamela Holland, and Daphne Zuniga in her film debut. It follows four college students who stay on campus over the Christmas holiday to clean out a condemned dormitory, where an unknown assailant begins stalking and murdering them.
Filmed on the University of California, Los Angeles campus in December 1981, the film was originally released in the United States and United Kingdom under the title Pranks in 1982. When its distributors found this title non-conducive to box-office sales, the film was re-titled The Dorm That Dripped Blood and re-released in 1983. In the United Kingdom, it suffered significant censorship due to its graphic violence, earning its inclusion on the British Board of Film Classification's "video nasty" list, though it was later removed.
- ^ a b c d "The Dorm That Dripped Blood". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
- ^ Harper 2004, p. 84.
- ^ Perry, Daniel. "Review: The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982)". RetroSlashers. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved December 26, 2016.
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