Pure Blood

The Dorm That Dripped Blood is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow, written by Carpenter, Obrow, and Stacey Giachino, and starring Laurie Lapinski, Stephen Sachs, David Snow, Pamela Holland, and Daphne Zuniga in her film debut. It follows a group of 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 at UCLA from December 1980 to January 1981, the film was originally released in the USA and the UK under the title Pranks in 1982. When its distributors found this title non-conducive to box-office sales, the film was retitled "The Dorm That Dripped Blood" and re-released in 1983. In the UK, it faced significant censorship due to its graphic violence, resulting in its inclusion on the BBFC's "video nasty" list, though it was later removed. Critical commentary from genre scholars in the ensuing years has heralded the film for its nihilistic conclusion, which challenged the emerging "final girl" trope in slasher films.