The Dorm That Dripped Blood
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| Directed by |
Stephen Carpenter Jeffrey Obrow |
| Produced by | Stacey Giachio Jeffrey Obrow |
| Written by | Stephen Carpenter Stacey Giachino |
| Screenplay by | Stephen Carpenter Jeffrey Obrow Stacey Giachino |
| Starring | Laura Lapinski Stephen Sachs David Snow Pamela Holland |
| Music by | Christopher Young |
| Cinematography | Stephen Carpenter |
| Edited by | Stephen Carpenter Jeffrey Obrow |
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Jeff Obrow Productions
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| Distributed by | New Image Releasing (U.S.) Frontier Amusements (Canada) |
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Running time
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84 minutes 104 minutes (uncut) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $90,000 (estimated) |
The Dorm That Dripped Blood (also known as Pranks and Death Dorm) is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow, and written by Carpenter and Stacey Giachino. It stars Laura Lapinski, Stephen Sachs, David Snow and Pamela Holland as four college students who stay on campus over the Christmas holiday to clear out a dormitory which is due for demolition. In the course of their work they are stalked by an unknown assailant who uses various industrial tools to dispatch his victims. It features actress Daphne Zuniga in her film debut.
The film was initially deemed to be a video nasty in the United Kingdom, but was later removed from the list.
The film opens with a young man fleeing from an unseen pursuer. Hiding in the bushes, he seems to have escaped until he is grabbed from behind and killed. Joanne (Laurie Lapinski) and her boyfriend Tim (Robert Frederick) attend a college party, with Joanne talking about how the building (Morgan Meadows Hall) is to be renovated before being demolished. She along with friends Bryan (David Snow), Patty (Pamela Holland), Craig (Stephen Sachs) and Debbie (Daphne Zuniga), are staying behind during the Christmas holiday to help clear out the building for its impending demolition. Tim leaves the next day for a skiing trip, while Debbie reveals that she cannot stay as her parents are picking her up later in the day.
Debbie's parents arrive in the evening and wait for Debbie (who is searching for Joanne's inventory list). Her father gets impatient and leaves the car to find her, only to be murdered with a spiked baseball bat by an unseen killer. Her mother is then strangled in the car with thin wire. Debbie finds them dead, and faints in horror. The killer moves her body and squashes her head by drives over her it. He then dumps all the bodies in the car and drives off.
The next day, Patty sees a weird guy hanging out by the dumpsters, John Hemmit (Woody Roll), who is not supposed to be at the dorm. Later that day, the caretaker Bill complains that one of his drills has been stolen, while Joanne muses that it was John. Joanne then meets Bobby Lee Tremble (Dennis Ely), a local salesman who is purchasing some of the tables from the dorm. Not long after, Bill is killed in the toilets with the stolen drill. Craig and Bryan see John walking by the dorm and try to warn him away. The group play pool in the evening but Patty sees John peering it at them through a window and freaks out. Deciding to take matters into their own hands, the group decide to search for him around the building, but are unsuccessful in finding him.
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