The Dorm That Dripped Blood

The Dorm That Dripped Blood
Original 1982 theatrical poster
Directed byStephen Carpenter
Jeffrey Obrow
Written byStephen Carpenter
Stacey Giachino
Screenplay byStephen Carpenter
Jeffrey Obrow
Stacey Giachino
Produced byStacey Giachino
Jeffrey Obrow
Starring
Laurie Lapinski
CinematographyStephen Carpenter
Edited by
Stephen Carpenter
  • Jeffrey Obrow
Music byChristopher Young
Production
company
Jeff Obrow Productions
Distributed byNew Image Releasing[1]
Release date
  • September 10, 1982 (1982-09-10)
Running time
84 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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.

  1. ^ a b c d "The Dorm That Dripped Blood". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  2. ^ Harper 2004, p. 84.
  3. ^ 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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