The Dorm that Dripped BloodYear: 1981 Director: Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow Written by:Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow, and Stacey Giachino Threat: Psychopath Weapon of Choice: Car |
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Rish Outfield's reviews
This was a slasher movie, and I like those. It had a cool title. The killer
wasn't terrible. The ending was pretty good, although there was a red
herring that was left for dead, but wasn't. It had Daphne Zuniga in it, who
I liked in Spaceballs and The Sure Thing, and I think was on Melrose
Place a couple years back. It had some very cool deaths at first,
especially Zuniga's. BUT, it's not really a keeper. It was excruciatingly
slow-moving, illogical, hard-to-follow, poorly lit, overflowing with silly,
useless subplots that went nowhere or were abandoned altogether, and the
sound was bad. The music was really awful, but both tyranist and I commented
(at first) that it was pretty good (it just never let up, and repeated
endlessly).
Best Scare: You know, I'm coming up blank here.
I'd Recommend It To: Hard up slasher fans and amateur filmmakers (it was
obviously cheap, and there's something to be learned in watching this kind of
thing).
The tyranist's thoughts
The only thing this move had going for it was Daphne Zuniga and her fantastic death scene. The rest of it more or less sucked.
Okay, the killer was pretty good once we found out who was doing it all, but even that became very predictable about fifteen
minutes before they actually revealed who it was. The production was particularly poor and the lighting was abominable. I
would say that only those of you interested in watching all of the films from Randy's list see this one. If you only want
to watch one of them, see The House on Sorority Row. None of the rest are worth
the time spent.
Really the biggest problem with this one is confusion. Because of poor lighting through most of the movie and a lack of
coherent scripting, this movie just doesn't make a lot of sense. There is a scene that occurs about halfway through the
movie that seems to be totally unrelated. Everything else is at least tangential, but sometimes very confusing. Another
poor element is the fact that they couldn't keep the night/day thing from ruining continuity. Sometimes it was night then day
and then night, when events had to be taking place within a few hours. Overall, it is just really poorly executed.
Total Skulls: 33
Sequel | ||
Sequel setup | ||
Rips off earlier film | ||
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
Future celebrity appears | Daphne Zuniga | |
Former celebrity appears | ||
Bad title | ||
Bad premise | ||
Bad acting | ||
Bad dialogue | ||
Bad execution | ||
MTV Editing | ||
OTS | ||
Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
Wanton sex | ||
Death associated with sex | ||
Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
Characters forget about threat | ||
Secluded location | ||
Power is cut | ||
Phone lines are cut | ||
Someone investigates a strange noise | ||
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
Camera is the killer | ||
Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
Victim locks self in with killer | ||
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
Toilet stall scene | ||
Shower scene | ||
Car stalls or won't start | ||
Cat jumps out | ||
Fake scare | ||
Laughable scare | ||
Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
Dream sequence | ||
No one believes only witness | ||
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
Music detracts from scene | ||
Death in first five minutes | ||
What the hell? | ||
x years ago . . . | ||
Dark and stormy night | ||
Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
Killer wears a mask | ||
Killer is in closet | ||
Killer is in car with victim | ||
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
Unscary villain/monster | ||
Beheading | ||
Blood fountain | ||
Blood hits camera | ||
Poor death effect | ||
Excessive gore | ||
No one dies at all | ||
Virgin survives | ||
Geek/Nerd survives | ||
Little kid lamely survives | ||
Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
Unresolved subplots | ||
"It was all a dream" ending | ||
Unbelievably happy ending | ||
Unbelievably crappy ending |