Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

lost-in-limbo Nothing sets it apart from the conventional textbook 80s slasher offerings, but I always thought it wasn't as terrible as it's made out to be. Sure this almost poverty row production is amateurish and crude in some aspects, but the setting is surprisingly atmospheric (a condemned college dorm soon to be torn down) and the tone remains grim to the very twisted ending. Directed in tandem by Jeffrey Obrow and Steve Carpenter (who would get better upon each following movie; "The Power" and "The Kindred"), their pacing can get become meandering due to the threadbare plot… where walking about the corridors and rooms seems to be a focal point. The plot sticks to the clichés (the crazy looking, loner weirdo red herring is shoved in our faces.. Oh no the power's out, do you know.. ) and what formulates is predictably telegraphed, despite some randomly contrived inclusions which either plays some important part in the scheme of things (a character who's sees one man's trash is another man's treasure) or is just simply there. Like the scene with the topless chick… you gotta have one of those. The leaden direction plays more upon building up an uneasy mood, where the spaced out instrumental music score ominously finds its way in. It's a humdinger. When they hack out the jolts, it's a gruesome display more often that happens off-screen with some choppy editing, plenty of leering killer POV shots or framing the shoes and blood spurting here and there. Some imagination to it (where can you see the killer plug in a drill before using it), but the cheap execution gives it that plain feeling (where the photography is grainy) however it never loses that primitive, nasty streak where it cooks up to a fittingly intense, grimacing finale. The performances are diverting by Laurie Lapinkski, Stephen Sachs, David Snow and a small, but memorable (not for her performance though) debut by Daphne Zuniga.

Michael_Elliott Dorm That Dripped Blood, The (1982) * 1/2 (out of 4) Another entry in the never-ending run of slasher movies that followed Friday THE 13TH. This film here tells the story of five college students who stay back on Christmas break in order to get their old dorm ready for destruction. While the group are doing their thing, a maniac shows up with some new ways to kill them. This film was released in Britian (and on DVD) as PRANKS and apparently was also known as DEATH DORM but whatever the title is the end result is that there's a reason this film has been forgotten. The first ten minutes or so are actually fairly good with some effective kills but after that the thing just falls apart and really turns out to be one of the most boring and painful slashers of the decade. What really killed the movie was the incredibly bad pacing, which drags the film down so much that it was rather painful watching the movie because everything just seemed so dragged out. The final "chase" in the film lasted over and hour, which is just downright overkill but the entire movie is like this. Many of the death scenes feature builds up that are so dragged out that the suspense is drained out of them but then again, I'm not sure any suspense could have happened no matter what. As is to be expected, the performances are all forgettable and the direction really doesn't pack any punches either. Worse of all is that the kill scenes aren't all that impressive and even worse is that there's a pretty good ending, which gets wasted in a film like this. The payoff certainly isn't what I expected to see but it's hard to recommend sitting through the rest of this movie just for that.

AngryChair College students, who are clearing out a condemned dormitory, are stalked by an elusive killer.The Dorm That Dripped Blood (aka Pranks) is a bit of a mixed bag for slasher fans. The movies production values are pretty low and the story for the most part is pretty routine, there's even a creepy bum hanging around for a red herring. In fact much of the story's build-up is pretty forgettable, save for one or two brutal murders. But the movie is really made better by its surprisingly intense climax (in an atmospheric setting) and one fairly bold, unconventional conclusion.The cast is lackluster for the most part. Stephen Sachs is the best of the lot as he does a pretty nice turn in character. Also look for a young Daphne Zuniga as an ill-fated student.Over all this is a pretty standard B slasher effort, but the finale is well worth savoring and for this viewer saved the movie from being a complete ho-hum.** out of ****

insomniac_rod This one probably does not fit in the bottom of the barrel of mediocre Slasher movies but it's surely a damn bad movie.The Holiday premise made it kind of interesting but after the first scenes the movie demonstrates it's poor production values and stupid plot. I mean, the sub-genre was at the moment all about an unseen maniac slashing teens for no apparent reasons but this one took it too far. There is absolutely no coherence in the events or nothing else to add.The clichès are more than boring, the gore is minimal, and so does the mystery.This is a fairly mediocre slasher entry that shouldn't be hyped even if it has a video nastie label.I am truly disappointed by this overrated piece of trash.