The Dorm That Dripped Blood, originally released under the title Pranks, is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow, written by Carpenter and Stacey Giachino, 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. Plot On a college campus, a young male coed is chased and killed by an unseen assailant. Meanwhile, Joanne and her boyfriend Tim attend a campus party, where they discuss that their dormitory building, Morgan Meadows Hall, has been condemned. Along with friends Brian, Patty, Craig, and Debbie, Joanne is staying behind during the Christmas holiday to help clear out the building for its impending demolition. Tim leaves for a holiday skiing trip the next day, 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 bludgeoned by an unseen killer with a baseball bat spiked with nails. Her mother is then strangled in the car with a wire garrote. Debbie finds their bodies and faints in horror. The killer drags Debbie's body behind the car and crushes her head by backing over it, before driving away with all three corpses in the trunk. The next day, Patty sees a vagrant named John Hemmit near the campus dump site. Later that day, the caretaker, Bill, complains that one of his drills has been stolen, while Joanne muses that John took it. Joanne meets Bobby Lee Tremble, a local salesman who is purchasing some of the tables from the dorm. Not long after,