The Dorm That Dripped Blood

The Dorm That Dripped Blood
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 Stephen Sachs David Snow Pamela Holland
Cinematography	Stephen Carpenter
Edited by	Stephen Carpenter Jeffrey Obrow
Music by	Christopher Young
Production company	Jeff Obrow Productions
Distributed by	New Image Releasing[1]
Release date	September 10, 1982 (1982-09-10)
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.

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