Pranks
Pranks is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, later dropped without a successful prosecution.
A dorm over Christmas break and a plot that runs out. Notable mainly for an early Daphne Zuniga.
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A dorm building over the Christmas break, a demolition scheduled, and a plot that runs out about halfway.
Four students stay behind to clear the building. Somebody is killing them. The identity of the killer is the film's one idea and it is revealed with a shrug.
It is notable mainly for an early Daphne Zuniga and for a drill sequence that got it onto the list.
Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter made it while at UCLA, financing it themselves, which is the most interesting thing about it.
Listed and dropped without prosecution. Passed 18 with cuts in 1992. Also known as The Dorm That Dripped Blood, which is a considerably better title.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · listed, then dropped
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