Dorms, and Blood, and the Drip

The discovery of the body. Well, at least the killer left a machete to use!

1982 was relatively early in the slasher cycle made (as you obviously know, since many a slasher review often starts like this…) popular by….wait for it, wait for it…Friday the 13^th (1980). The slasher genre is like the found footage genre…you could make a movie on the cheap and gain back your budget and perhaps even a small profit. If anything, the Dorm That Drips Bloods of the world could attain a small cult following or sit on a shelf and grab a slasher fan’s eyes while their hands scramble and shuffle rental boxes around looking for the Friday night fix (back in the late 80s/early 90s; now it is shuffling Youtube or hoping for the possible, slim chance Netflix might have it available to rent).

The Dorm That Dripped Blood or Pranks or House of Blood (or whatever other title that might have been thrown on a box and distributed to audiences all over the world) was a slasher film that fits itself right in the mold of the genre it represents. The score strikes up the strings and ratchets up when the camera pulls into a murder set piece as a victim unknowingly walks into their own peril. There’s this transient who pops up on occasion to peep on what the college characters are up to, while they partake in closing down their dorm and preparing it for its “dismissal” (it will no longer be a dorm but something else entirely). Essentially, the dorm will be reduced to apartments…the horror!

This slasher film decides to let most of the college students head off to their Christmas holidays while a small number opt to voluntarily strip the dorm and let those who follow obliterate it. Not before the four who remain (yep, four total, tasked with two weeks of taking to the dorm; a bit hard to swallow, eh?) face possible obliteration.

Yeah, there’s a killer who decides these dastardly students deserve to be punished…and he is just the right person to do it!