The episode of Best Horror Movie You Never Saw covering The Kindred was Written by Andrew Hatfield, Edited by Paul Bookstaber, Narrated by Kier Gomes, Produced by John Fallon and Tyler Nichols, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
We toe the line sometimes here at JoBlo Horror Originals with what movies we discuss. Some things can qualify for multiple shows like a Black Sheep or a Deconstructing on the same movie. Sometimes there are enough behind the scenes shenanigans to give it a proper Wtf or maybe its adapted from a story. Not today, though. Today is something that reflects the true nature of this show. I know some viewers get bummed when they see some movies, even some of their favorite movies, get covered multiple times, so today’s hopefully different. I’m hoping that today will be a best horror movie that you never saw for most and...
We toe the line sometimes here at JoBlo Horror Originals with what movies we discuss. Some things can qualify for multiple shows like a Black Sheep or a Deconstructing on the same movie. Sometimes there are enough behind the scenes shenanigans to give it a proper Wtf or maybe its adapted from a story. Not today, though. Today is something that reflects the true nature of this show. I know some viewers get bummed when they see some movies, even some of their favorite movies, get covered multiple times, so today’s hopefully different. I’m hoping that today will be a best horror movie that you never saw for most and...
- 10/23/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
While movie remakes are popular across genres (Anyone remember the 2018 remake of Garry Marshall's "Overboard"?), the horror genre is especially susceptible. The genre is unique insofar as its scares endure more than most. Where comedies and action movies, for instance, are inextricably linked to their time of release, a scary movie is a scary movie. With a fresh coat of paint, what was new three decades ago can seem fresh again.
A curious contemporary trend has emerged in which relatively recent titles are remade just a few years after their original releases. Released just 14 years after the first "Cabin Fever," the remake used the exact script as the original. Recently, horror filmmaker Anthony Diblasi released "Malum" in select theaters. "Malum," a remake of Diblasi's 2014 indie "Last Shift," isn't quite a shot-for-shot remake so much as it is a reimagining. With more money and more experience, Diblasi revisits his demonic fable in a new context.
A curious contemporary trend has emerged in which relatively recent titles are remade just a few years after their original releases. Released just 14 years after the first "Cabin Fever," the remake used the exact script as the original. Recently, horror filmmaker Anthony Diblasi released "Malum" in select theaters. "Malum," a remake of Diblasi's 2014 indie "Last Shift," isn't quite a shot-for-shot remake so much as it is a reimagining. With more money and more experience, Diblasi revisits his demonic fable in a new context.
- 4/16/2023
- by Chad Collins
- Slash Film
The very first Make Believe Seattle festival took place last week and included a lot of stellar features. One that particularly caught my eye was Pursued. It is the new film from Jeffrey Obrow, known for 80s classics The Dorm that Dripped Blood and The Kindred. He’s back with a new thriller focusing on friends and strangers in the digital age.
When Lark (Madison Lawlor) learns that her mother (Molly Ringwald) is dating a new guy, she has mixed emotions. She’s happy that her mom is finally moving on after her father’s death two years before, but the whole idea naturally feels a bit strange. This is only compounded by the fact that she only learns about the relationship when Carol announces that she will be going away for the weekend with her new suitor. Lark cautions her mom, asking if she really knows this guy well...
When Lark (Madison Lawlor) learns that her mother (Molly Ringwald) is dating a new guy, she has mixed emotions. She’s happy that her mom is finally moving on after her father’s death two years before, but the whole idea naturally feels a bit strange. This is only compounded by the fact that she only learns about the relationship when Carol announces that she will be going away for the weekend with her new suitor. Lark cautions her mom, asking if she really knows this guy well...
- 4/8/2023
- by Emily von Seele
- DailyDead
Mark Rosman‘s The House on Sorority Row (1982) and Stewart Hendler‘s Sorority Row (2009) feel shoved aside in their respective horror classes. Titles like Pieces, Black Christmas, and The Dorm That Dripped Blood get more frequent mentions when discussing pre-90s sorority or dormitory slashers. Remake debates rarely include Sorority Row in their reassessments of unfairly stigmatized 2000s horror revamps based on nostalgia biases (among other reasons). It’s interesting how both seem equally less popular despite their amassed cult followings after meager box office openings.
It’s almost like Hendler attempted to shake the original’s mojo by deeming Sorority Row an adaptation of Rosman’s screenplay Seven Sisters — the earlier iteration of what would become The House on Sorority Row. Don’t mind the trickiness because Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger write their re-imagining indebted to The House on Sorority Row. Maybe late-2000s remake fatigue led to...
It’s almost like Hendler attempted to shake the original’s mojo by deeming Sorority Row an adaptation of Rosman’s screenplay Seven Sisters — the earlier iteration of what would become The House on Sorority Row. Don’t mind the trickiness because Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger write their re-imagining indebted to The House on Sorority Row. Maybe late-2000s remake fatigue led to...
- 9/5/2022
- by Matt Donato
- bloody-disgusting.com
Watch the Short Film Central Dental: "Lewis is mugged late at night in a back alley and loses a tooth after being punched in the face. Luckily, he is outside of a 24-hour dental clinic and the receptionist reassures him that he will be taken care of. But things soon take a terrifying turn when he is given an anesthetic injection that makes him unable to move."
Crew
Written & Directed by: Lindsay Thomas Robinson
Produced by: Samantha Quantz & Lindsay Thomas Robinson
Cinematography: David Baron
Tooth Monster Effects: Bold Raven FX
Creature Effects Coordinator: Brendan James Boyd
Creature Design: Alana Banks
Production Design: Malorie Shmyr
Hair & Makeup: Mallory Greaves
Wardrobe: Jocelyn Palmer
Gaffer: Peter Markowski
Key Grip: Thaimu Turray
Location Sound: Michael Olson
Stunt Coordinator: Eric Beaudoin
Original Score: Dan Cleary
Audio Post: Jesse Luce
Cast
Lewis: Adam Drory
Dentist: Belinda Cornish
Ronnie: Marc Lacoursiere
Receptionist: Nikki Rae Hallow
Knuckles: Eric...
Crew
Written & Directed by: Lindsay Thomas Robinson
Produced by: Samantha Quantz & Lindsay Thomas Robinson
Cinematography: David Baron
Tooth Monster Effects: Bold Raven FX
Creature Effects Coordinator: Brendan James Boyd
Creature Design: Alana Banks
Production Design: Malorie Shmyr
Hair & Makeup: Mallory Greaves
Wardrobe: Jocelyn Palmer
Gaffer: Peter Markowski
Key Grip: Thaimu Turray
Location Sound: Michael Olson
Stunt Coordinator: Eric Beaudoin
Original Score: Dan Cleary
Audio Post: Jesse Luce
Cast
Lewis: Adam Drory
Dentist: Belinda Cornish
Ronnie: Marc Lacoursiere
Receptionist: Nikki Rae Hallow
Knuckles: Eric...
- 10/28/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
All hail Film Ventures International. Long-time purveyors of cinematic sleaze and genre enchantment, they’ve produced or at least distributed some of my very favorite low budget wonders: Beyond the Door (1974), Grizzly (’76), The Incubus (1981), and Pieces (’82) are only some of their titles that have provided hours of entertainment, from the goofy to the sublime (which in their case, is often one and the same). One of their final releases, The Power (1984), is a good example of their often heady mix, and a solid springboard for directors Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow on their way to their demented mutant mash The Kindred (’87).
Released in late January, The Power (Aka Evil Passage) didn’t do much business; playing in theatres for one weekend and bringing in just under a million dollars, head honcho Edward L. Montoro surely heading out the back door with a bagful of cash on his way to bankrupting the company.
Released in late January, The Power (Aka Evil Passage) didn’t do much business; playing in theatres for one weekend and bringing in just under a million dollars, head honcho Edward L. Montoro surely heading out the back door with a bagful of cash on his way to bankrupting the company.
- 12/16/2017
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
The thing I miss the most about the heyday of the ’80s slasher movie is that there were so many of them that eventually filmmakers had to start finding ways to shake up the formula and continually introduce weirder and weirder stuff. That's not to say that all of these movies were necessarily "good," but that they managed to be distinctive within a sub-genre known for its sameness. For as good as horror is today—and we are in a really good place for horror—there is no one corner of the genre that is so prevalent as the slasher once was that inspires various permutations. We don't get a Sleepaway Camp or a Blood Rage much anymore. The reasons for this are ultimately positive and encouraging—the current crop of horror films are so vastly different from one another that we avoid this phenomenon—but it still makes me...
- 11/30/2016
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
Stars: Vera Miles, Clu Gulager, Daphne Zuniga, James Read, Marilyn Kagan, Hunter Tylo, Robert Dowdell, Frances Peterson, Christopher Bradley, Peter Malof | Written by Charles Pratt Jr. | Directed by Larry Stewart
Like any blossoming all-American gal, Kelly is looking forward to her sorority initiation with a mixture of excitement and apprehension – and she s got every reason to be anxious considering the prank her sorority sisters have tasked her with a late-night break-in of her fathers department store. At first, it seems pretty straightforward and everything goes to plan, but once inside the mall, Kelly and her fellow pledges finds themselves locked in, and they re not alone…
Making its second appearance on DVD here in the UK (the first was an “only just better than VHS” release by Pegasus), The Initiation is one of my personal favourites from the Eighties slasher boom. Taking its lead from those slasher movies that came before it,...
Like any blossoming all-American gal, Kelly is looking forward to her sorority initiation with a mixture of excitement and apprehension – and she s got every reason to be anxious considering the prank her sorority sisters have tasked her with a late-night break-in of her fathers department store. At first, it seems pretty straightforward and everything goes to plan, but once inside the mall, Kelly and her fellow pledges finds themselves locked in, and they re not alone…
Making its second appearance on DVD here in the UK (the first was an “only just better than VHS” release by Pegasus), The Initiation is one of my personal favourites from the Eighties slasher boom. Taking its lead from those slasher movies that came before it,...
- 8/4/2013
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
More often than not, horror films are filled with decapitations, amputations, disembowelment, and more. Particularly with the introduction of the ‘torture porn’ subgenre, we are seeing more and more violence and excess in horror cinema. Sometimes it’s effective. Sometimes, watching the film’s cast of characters endure the kind of violence we wouldn’t wish on our worst enemy is a turn off to audiences.
What we don’t see a lot of these days, though, is films that shy away from on-screen violence and opt for atmosphere over arterial spray. But it isn’t impossible to find. For example, James Wan's The Conjuring, which opened this weekend with a massive $41.5 million, relies on clapping hands, immobile dolls, and creeping shadows to terrify the audience. In fact, some of our most beloved films from years past are less intense than we might remember them. There have been several...
What we don’t see a lot of these days, though, is films that shy away from on-screen violence and opt for atmosphere over arterial spray. But it isn’t impossible to find. For example, James Wan's The Conjuring, which opened this weekend with a massive $41.5 million, relies on clapping hands, immobile dolls, and creeping shadows to terrify the audience. In fact, some of our most beloved films from years past are less intense than we might remember them. There have been several...
- 7/22/2013
- by Tyler Doupe
- FEARnet
Issue #7 of Lunchmeat is now on sale via The Meat Market, and rather than do a typical review, we thought we'd post this post-mortem and include a look at a few pages from it. Check it out!
Hey, all you tape-heads out there riding the digital waves—Lunchmeat 7 has hit the savage streets featuring more “Blood! Terror! Babes! Monsters!” With its glossy slick and sick four-color cover and rock 'n roll junk zine interior, editor-in-chief Josh Schafer has concocted another delightful collection of analog things from genres past, forever exploring the landscape of the ravenous revival of VHS.
This issue is filled with reviews of flicks not available yet on DVD or Blu-ray, highlights of which include Tombstone Territory, The Shout, Madhouse Mansion, and Project Nightmare, none of which I remember ever renting in my VHS youth at Video Video or Video Magic in Old Bridge, NJ. But that’s...
Hey, all you tape-heads out there riding the digital waves—Lunchmeat 7 has hit the savage streets featuring more “Blood! Terror! Babes! Monsters!” With its glossy slick and sick four-color cover and rock 'n roll junk zine interior, editor-in-chief Josh Schafer has concocted another delightful collection of analog things from genres past, forever exploring the landscape of the ravenous revival of VHS.
This issue is filled with reviews of flicks not available yet on DVD or Blu-ray, highlights of which include Tombstone Territory, The Shout, Madhouse Mansion, and Project Nightmare, none of which I remember ever renting in my VHS youth at Video Video or Video Magic in Old Bridge, NJ. But that’s...
- 4/23/2013
- by Heather Buckley
- DreadCentral.com
As formats linger on, more and more movies get released. This is why we’ve been graced over the past few years with various releases (on Blu-ray and/or DVD) of such classics and obscurities as the original My Bloody Valentine, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, Night of the Creeps, The Monster Squad, The Dorm that Dripped Blood, Vampire Circus, Devil Dog: Hound of Hell, and Buio Omega (Beyond the Darkness). We’ve even gotten Blu-ray releases of classic clunkers like Troll 2 and Birdemic: Shock and Terror! Yet there are some surprising titles that haven’t gotten the high-def treatment (or maybe haven’t gotten it well enough). Below you’ll find a list of classics that haven’t seen either American blu-ray releases or appropriately loaded Blu-ray releases.
- 10/31/2011
- Best-Horror-Movies.com
After some delay, Synapse Films has finally put out The Dorm That Dripped Blood on Blu-Ray with a Blu-Ray/DVD Combo pack! You may know the film as Pranks or, for you elitists out there, as Death Dorm. We got the review of Synapse’s Blu-Ray/DVD Combo for you beyond the break!
I like you better when you drink.
The Movie:
Five college students during Christmas break volunteer to clean up a dormitory prior to its demolition. Some of the volunteers, and even a couple of parents, bite the dust as they are picked off by a killer on campus. The plot of the film is your basic slasher fodder and while the film itself didn’t bring anything new the table. What I found more interesting than the film itself are the fact that the directors, Jeffrey Obrow & Stephen Carpenter, made the majority of this film during their...
I like you better when you drink.
The Movie:
Five college students during Christmas break volunteer to clean up a dormitory prior to its demolition. Some of the volunteers, and even a couple of parents, bite the dust as they are picked off by a killer on campus. The plot of the film is your basic slasher fodder and while the film itself didn’t bring anything new the table. What I found more interesting than the film itself are the fact that the directors, Jeffrey Obrow & Stephen Carpenter, made the majority of this film during their...
- 5/10/2011
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
1982 - 84 mins. - Rated R
D: Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow
C: Laurie Lapinski, Stephen Sachs, David Snow, Daphne Zuniga, Pamela Holland
Group of college students playing pranks on one another while getting an old college dorm ready for a demolition are picked off by an unseen killer.
Ok. Yes there are more technically proficient slashers from the mid to early 80's out there. And yes, there is better acted ones out there too. However, one of the main objectives of a slasher is its ability to craft suspense, tension and unease. With that in mind, The Dorm That Dripped Blood succeeds admirably. The Dorm That Dripped Blood features creepy sequences of the killer lurking in shadows, stalking his victims from afar. The music score is well used throughout the film helping to heighten the suspense and involvement in the film's proceedings. The death sequences, while not overly gory, are brutally effective.
D: Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow
C: Laurie Lapinski, Stephen Sachs, David Snow, Daphne Zuniga, Pamela Holland
Group of college students playing pranks on one another while getting an old college dorm ready for a demolition are picked off by an unseen killer.
Ok. Yes there are more technically proficient slashers from the mid to early 80's out there. And yes, there is better acted ones out there too. However, one of the main objectives of a slasher is its ability to craft suspense, tension and unease. With that in mind, The Dorm That Dripped Blood succeeds admirably. The Dorm That Dripped Blood features creepy sequences of the killer lurking in shadows, stalking his victims from afar. The music score is well used throughout the film helping to heighten the suspense and involvement in the film's proceedings. The death sequences, while not overly gory, are brutally effective.
- 4/27/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
Neither memory nor a handy copy of the old VHS release allow me to compare the original director’s cut of The Dorm That Dripped Blood, which Synapse Films released today in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, with the version that played theaters (initially as Pranks) and appeared on tape back in the ’80s. What can be said is that Synapse’s assembling of the behind-the-scenes talent for the supplements has paid greater dividends than their restoration of the movie itself.
- 4/26/2011
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Syfy and Korean monsters, machine-gun-toting Japanese schoolgirls, and some re-releases are the topics of this week's horror titles.
While Dinoshark (directed by Kevin O'Neill and starring Eric Balfour, Iva Hasperger, Aaron Diaz, Humberto Busto, Roger Corman) and Mongolian Death Worm (directed by Steven R. Monroe and starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Victoria Pratt) were on cable TV only recently, they're already here on home video. On top of that Chawz, the "Jaws with a wild boar" offering from Korea, and the hilariously unbelievable Machine Girl are vying for your purse strings all way from the Far East.
For the classically inclined, re-releases of Roger Corman's The Terror with a young Jack Nicholson, The Dorm That Dripped Blood, El Topo, as well as Francis Ford Coppola's Dementia 13 will keep you company this week.
The Terror
Directed by Roger Corman
Starring Jack Nicholson, Boris Karloff, Sandra Knight
In one of his first-ever roles,...
While Dinoshark (directed by Kevin O'Neill and starring Eric Balfour, Iva Hasperger, Aaron Diaz, Humberto Busto, Roger Corman) and Mongolian Death Worm (directed by Steven R. Monroe and starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Victoria Pratt) were on cable TV only recently, they're already here on home video. On top of that Chawz, the "Jaws with a wild boar" offering from Korea, and the hilariously unbelievable Machine Girl are vying for your purse strings all way from the Far East.
For the classically inclined, re-releases of Roger Corman's The Terror with a young Jack Nicholson, The Dorm That Dripped Blood, El Topo, as well as Francis Ford Coppola's Dementia 13 will keep you company this week.
The Terror
Directed by Roger Corman
Starring Jack Nicholson, Boris Karloff, Sandra Knight
In one of his first-ever roles,...
- 4/26/2011
- by kwlow
- DreadCentral.com
Hey Fiends! Happy Monday! Let’s take a look at your DVD and Blu-Ray Releases for tomorrow – April 23, 2011. We have some Hi-Def upgrades that you freaks will definitely want to pick up. Check beyond the break to get the full list!
All Descriptions of the following titles are provided by Amazon.com unless otherwise noted. If you plan on buying a flick from this list, please click on the links provided or click on the cover as it helps us pay the bills around here. Also, unlike most sites, we provide the Netflix widget which we think is pretty convenient to add these films to your queue. If you don’t have Netflix, feel free to click on “Free Trial” and try it out!
Blow Out (The Criterion Collection)
Format: DVD | Blu-Ray
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In the enthralling Blow Out, brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma (Sisters, Carrie, Scarface), John Travolta (Saturday Night Fever,...
All Descriptions of the following titles are provided by Amazon.com unless otherwise noted. If you plan on buying a flick from this list, please click on the links provided or click on the cover as it helps us pay the bills around here. Also, unlike most sites, we provide the Netflix widget which we think is pretty convenient to add these films to your queue. If you don’t have Netflix, feel free to click on “Free Trial” and try it out!
Blow Out (The Criterion Collection)
Format: DVD | Blu-Ray
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In the enthralling Blow Out, brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma (Sisters, Carrie, Scarface), John Travolta (Saturday Night Fever,...
- 4/25/2011
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Your Weekly Source for the Newest Releases to Blu-Ray Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 Jesse Eisenberg & Kristen Stewart star in Greg Mottola’s Adventureland (2009) Billie Bob Thornton is naughty in Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa: Unrated Director’s Cut (2003) French cult classic Betty Blue: Original Theatrical Release (1986) Val Kilmer stars in Blood Out (2011) John Travolta stars in Brian de Palma’s Blow Out: Criterion Collection (1981) D.A Pennebaker’s documentary Bob Dylan: Don’T Look Back (2010) Matt Damon & Heath Ledger star in terry Gilliam’s The Brothers Grimm (2005) Ben Affleck stars in Kevin Smith’s Chasing Amy (1997) Korean horror director Shin Jung-Won’s Chawz (2011) Renee Zellweger & Catherine Zeta-Jones star in Rob Marshall’s Chicago (2002) Kevin Smith’s Clerks: 15th Anniversary Edition (1994) Sylvester Stallone & Viggo Mortenson star in Daylight (1996) Francis Ford Coppola’s Dementia 13: Blu-Ray/DVD Combo pack (1963) Jeffrey Obrow’s The Dorm That Dripped Blood:...
- 4/25/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; we ain’t got time to bleed. Ah the internet, home to some of the finest intellectual minds and cutting edge commentary on…the internet. Sadly, you sailed right over the cerebral foie gras and caviar of online film columns and wound up at the internet equivalent of Stuckey’s. And not even a fine, upstanding Stuckey’s just outside of Orlando with troves of cheap Disney merchandise to accompany your pecan log omelet. We here at Junkfood Cinema are more in the ballpark of a Stuckey’s in Pineview, Georgia smashed between a gas station still offering leaded fuel and a more-than-slightly questionable bookstore. Every week I play the role of the waitress who looks unnervingly like an ill-fed Andre the Giant serving up the only item on the menu: terrible films. I will skewer and deep fry the film before lovingly drizzling a rich sauce of terrifyingly genuine love across...
- 4/22/2011
- by Brian Salisbury
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
We're just a week away from Synapse Films' Blu-ray and DVD release of The Dorm that Dripped Blood completely uncut for the first time ever. For those fans (I'm looking at you, Matt Fini) out there eagerly anticipating this long time coming moment, a new cut-to-uncut comparison has just popped up online for the insanely curious.
Dig on the comparison right here for the goods courtesy of MovieCensorship.com.
From the Press Release
Synapse Films is proud to present the fullest-length version of Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter's lost classic The Dorm That Dripped Blood on April 26th, 2011.
On the eve of Christmas vacation, a college dormitory stands condemned, the dark halls now vacant… and unsafe. Co-ed Joanne Murray and her close friends volunteer to help close down the building, unaware a psychopathic lunatic hides in the shadows. As the students disappear one by one, Joanne discovers the...
Dig on the comparison right here for the goods courtesy of MovieCensorship.com.
From the Press Release
Synapse Films is proud to present the fullest-length version of Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter's lost classic The Dorm That Dripped Blood on April 26th, 2011.
On the eve of Christmas vacation, a college dormitory stands condemned, the dark halls now vacant… and unsafe. Co-ed Joanne Murray and her close friends volunteer to help close down the building, unaware a psychopathic lunatic hides in the shadows. As the students disappear one by one, Joanne discovers the...
- 4/19/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Synapse Films recently send us over information about their upcoming release of the 80's cult horror classic "The Dorm That Dripped Blood" presented uncensored for the very first time on Blu-Ray and DVD with additional scenes, extended gore sequences, and a different sound mix.Plot Synopsis:On the eve of Christmas vacation, a college dormitory stands condemned, the dark halls now vacant… and...
- 3/16/2011
- by Anthony T
Oh, Synapse Films. How we love thee. We could cuddle you in our arms forever. Stroke your hair. Nuzzle you close. You are our sunshine. Our only sunshine. You make us happy ... especially when it comes to delivering some of the most psychotic films out there completely uncut and uncensored!
From the Press Release
Synapse Films is proud to present the fullest-length version of Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter's lost classic The Dorm That Dripped Blood on March 29, 2011.
On the eve of Christmas vacation, a college dormitory stands condemned, the dark halls now vacant… and unsafe. Co-ed Joanne Murray and her close friends volunteer to help close down the building, unaware a psychopathic lunatic hides in the shadows. As the students disappear one by one, Joanne discovers the horrifying reality that if she is to survive, she will have to find a way to slay the brutal murderer… alone.
From the Press Release
Synapse Films is proud to present the fullest-length version of Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter's lost classic The Dorm That Dripped Blood on March 29, 2011.
On the eve of Christmas vacation, a college dormitory stands condemned, the dark halls now vacant… and unsafe. Co-ed Joanne Murray and her close friends volunteer to help close down the building, unaware a psychopathic lunatic hides in the shadows. As the students disappear one by one, Joanne discovers the horrifying reality that if she is to survive, she will have to find a way to slay the brutal murderer… alone.
- 3/15/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Synapse Films is proud to present the fullest-length version of Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter's lost classic The Dorm That Dripped Blood. On the eve of Christmas vacation, a college dormitory stands condemned, the dark halls now vacant… and unsafe. Co-ed Joanne Murray and her close friends volunteer to help close down the building, unaware a psychopathic lunatic hides in the shadows. As the students disappear one by one, Joanne discovers the horrifying reality that if she is to survive, she will have to find a way to slay the brutal murderer… alone.
- 3/15/2011
- by Press Release Robot
- HorrorYearbook
The Dorm That Dripped Blood The Dorm That Dripped Blood, a minor classic in the popular 80's slasher market that featured a fresh faced Daphne Zuniga (Spaceballs) in her debut performance, was scheduled for a March 29, 2011 DVD/Blu-Ray combo release. Unfortunately, the film's release date has been delayed yet again. Fans of this movie have been clamoring for the release of this horror movie, because of a previously unreleased cut of the film entitled Death Dorm, which contains extra gore.
In The Dorm That Dripped Blood, which is now scheduled to be released on April 26, 2011, a college dormitory stands condemned during Christmas vacation... the dark hall's now vacant and unsafe. Student Joanne Murray and her close friends volunteer to help close down the building, unaware a psychopathic lunatic is hiding in the shadows. As the students disappear one by one, Joanne discovers the horrifying reality that if she is to survive,...
In The Dorm That Dripped Blood, which is now scheduled to be released on April 26, 2011, a college dormitory stands condemned during Christmas vacation... the dark hall's now vacant and unsafe. Student Joanne Murray and her close friends volunteer to help close down the building, unaware a psychopathic lunatic is hiding in the shadows. As the students disappear one by one, Joanne discovers the horrifying reality that if she is to survive,...
- 3/14/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
Your Weekly Source for Blu-Ray and DVD Release News
Not a huge week for new Blu-Ray releases, but there are certainly a few of significant noteworthiness… and, Triple H is not one of them. Sorry, to all the wrestling fans out there. Resurrected from the 80′s are the slasher flick The Dorm That Dripped Blood and John Boorman’s Excalibur, an under-appreciated telling of the times of Kign Arthur.
*Perhaps the best documentary of 2010, Exit Through The Gift Shop is an intriguing film about art and artist, and the personality in between, but it’s also an adventure into a world with which few of us have any experience. Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job is a documentary about the recent financial meltdown.
*Indicated that I actually feel it Is the best, but am attempting to be impartial.
Writer/director Jeong-beom Lee’s The Man From Nowhere is yet another fine...
Not a huge week for new Blu-Ray releases, but there are certainly a few of significant noteworthiness… and, Triple H is not one of them. Sorry, to all the wrestling fans out there. Resurrected from the 80′s are the slasher flick The Dorm That Dripped Blood and John Boorman’s Excalibur, an under-appreciated telling of the times of Kign Arthur.
*Perhaps the best documentary of 2010, Exit Through The Gift Shop is an intriguing film about art and artist, and the personality in between, but it’s also an adventure into a world with which few of us have any experience. Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job is a documentary about the recent financial meltdown.
*Indicated that I actually feel it Is the best, but am attempting to be impartial.
Writer/director Jeong-beom Lee’s The Man From Nowhere is yet another fine...
- 3/7/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Almost one year ago, when we launched at Big Daddy, one of our first posts was about 10 horror films in need of a DVD or Blu-Ray release. The Nesting and Twice Dead which both made the list are now either out on DVD or about to be released. Other titles that made the list included The Pack, Night Warning, Massacre at Central High, Dance of the Damned, Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice, Deadly Blessing, The Kindred and Killer Party. With this second annual edition, we hope to spotlight more horror films that have fallen through the cracks. Titles that haven't been released beyond VHS (with the exception of one, that has only been released to VOD) that need the attention of us horror fans and distributors to make these titles readily available for our horror movie watching enjoyment.
The Power In The Power, an ancient clay idol...
The Power In The Power, an ancient clay idol...
- 3/7/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
"The Man From Nowhere" (2010)
Directed by Lee Jeong-beom
Released by Well Go USA
Matt Singer said there's a sequence in this Korean revenge thriller that has "already taken up permanent residence in the Movie Hall of Fame section of my brain," so what more do you need? "Mother" star Won Bin stars as the man who is framed by local gangsters and seeks to retrieve the young girl he lives next door to after she's been kidnapped.
"Abducted" (2011)
Directed by Jon Bonnell
Released by Brain Damage Films
Originally called "Match.Dead," this 2009 thriller details the perils of online dating when a teen girl (Kathleen Benner) arranges a date with a man she soon learns is a psychopath (James Ray). Alan Smithee is the credited screenwriter on IMDb, so one might not want to go in with high expectations.
"Babysitters Beware" (2011)
Directed by Douglas Horn
Released by Phase 4 Films
If you're the...
Directed by Lee Jeong-beom
Released by Well Go USA
Matt Singer said there's a sequence in this Korean revenge thriller that has "already taken up permanent residence in the Movie Hall of Fame section of my brain," so what more do you need? "Mother" star Won Bin stars as the man who is framed by local gangsters and seeks to retrieve the young girl he lives next door to after she's been kidnapped.
"Abducted" (2011)
Directed by Jon Bonnell
Released by Brain Damage Films
Originally called "Match.Dead," this 2009 thriller details the perils of online dating when a teen girl (Kathleen Benner) arranges a date with a man she soon learns is a psychopath (James Ray). Alan Smithee is the credited screenwriter on IMDb, so one might not want to go in with high expectations.
"Babysitters Beware" (2011)
Directed by Douglas Horn
Released by Phase 4 Films
If you're the...
- 3/5/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Cav Distributing has just announced that the street date for "The Dorm That Dripped Blood" has been moved from March 8, 2011 to March 29, 2011.
The Dorm That Dripped Blood was released amid the 80's slasher craze onto VHS by Media Home Entertainment. The film was most notable for an early appearance by upcoming teen sensation Daphne Zuniga who later on went to star in the hit TV series Melrose Place.
According to Synapse Films "there’s a good possibility that the version of the film we’ve received has some additional material that’s never been seen by anyone but the filmmakers. We’re doing the transfer right now and it looks really great!".
The Dorm That Dripped Blood was previously released to DVD under its original title of "Pranks". The picture quality of the previous edition was grainy and poorly received by fans of the movie. Making matters worse, the previous...
The Dorm That Dripped Blood was released amid the 80's slasher craze onto VHS by Media Home Entertainment. The film was most notable for an early appearance by upcoming teen sensation Daphne Zuniga who later on went to star in the hit TV series Melrose Place.
According to Synapse Films "there’s a good possibility that the version of the film we’ve received has some additional material that’s never been seen by anyone but the filmmakers. We’re doing the transfer right now and it looks really great!".
The Dorm That Dripped Blood was previously released to DVD under its original title of "Pranks". The picture quality of the previous edition was grainy and poorly received by fans of the movie. Making matters worse, the previous...
- 1/11/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
The Dorm That Dripped Blood, also known as Pranks, is all set for a Blu-ray/DVD release from Synapse Films and we have the lowdown on the special features. The street date is March 8, 2011.
Source: High-Def Digest
“The film will include footage no one has ever seen before including new sequences of gore and dialogue, restoring the film to the most complete version possible — according to Synapse’s Don May Jr..
Specs have yet to be revealed, but supplements will include: Audio commentary with directors Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter; Featurettes about composer Christopher Young and makeup FX artist Matthew Mungle; and original theatrical trailer.
The release also will be a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack.”...
Source: High-Def Digest
“The film will include footage no one has ever seen before including new sequences of gore and dialogue, restoring the film to the most complete version possible — according to Synapse’s Don May Jr..
Specs have yet to be revealed, but supplements will include: Audio commentary with directors Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter; Featurettes about composer Christopher Young and makeup FX artist Matthew Mungle; and original theatrical trailer.
The release also will be a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack.”...
- 12/22/2010
- by Jason Bene
- Killer Films
Okay, so here’s a quick question for you all … how many dog owners amongst you have suddenly experienced man’s best friend exhibit unusually disturbing behavioural tics after sitting them down in front of the television and watching a few horror movies together?
Anyone? No? No sudden canine savagery? No impulsive howling at the moon? No gratuitous tearing of flesh? No violent rending of bone? Not even any unwelcome soiling of carpets?
I only ask this question as, in regards to the Video Nasties furore of the mid-Eighties, Conservative MP Graham Bright once (in)famously appeared on television and categorically stated that “I believe there is research taking place and it will show that these films not only affect young people … but I believe they affect dogs as well.”
But regardless of whether such research will mean poor Fido sadly misses out on his one opportunity to catch “The Beast In Heat...
Anyone? No? No sudden canine savagery? No impulsive howling at the moon? No gratuitous tearing of flesh? No violent rending of bone? Not even any unwelcome soiling of carpets?
I only ask this question as, in regards to the Video Nasties furore of the mid-Eighties, Conservative MP Graham Bright once (in)famously appeared on television and categorically stated that “I believe there is research taking place and it will show that these films not only affect young people … but I believe they affect dogs as well.”
But regardless of whether such research will mean poor Fido sadly misses out on his one opportunity to catch “The Beast In Heat...
- 12/21/2010
- by Nick Turk
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
We here at Big Daddy Horror Reviews would like to send out special birthday wishes to some iconic actors who have worked in the horror genre:
Jami Gertz - The Lost Boys
Daphne Zuniga - The Dorm That Dripped Blood (aka Pranks), The Fly II and The Initiation
Daphne Zuniga, who turns 48 today, is an American actress best known for her role as Jo Reynolds on the Fox prime time soap Melrose Place, as Victoria Davis on The CW teen drama One Tree Hill and as Princess Vespa in Spaceballs. However, horror fans will always remember her for getting ran over by a car in The Dorm That Dripped Blood or as twins representing good and evil in the 80's slasher The Initiation or as the love interest for Eric Stolz's character in The Fly II.
Jami Gertz, who turns 45, is an American actress best known known for her early...
Jami Gertz - The Lost Boys
Daphne Zuniga - The Dorm That Dripped Blood (aka Pranks), The Fly II and The Initiation
Daphne Zuniga, who turns 48 today, is an American actress best known for her role as Jo Reynolds on the Fox prime time soap Melrose Place, as Victoria Davis on The CW teen drama One Tree Hill and as Princess Vespa in Spaceballs. However, horror fans will always remember her for getting ran over by a car in The Dorm That Dripped Blood or as twins representing good and evil in the 80's slasher The Initiation or as the love interest for Eric Stolz's character in The Fly II.
Jami Gertz, who turns 45, is an American actress best known known for her early...
- 10/28/2010
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
Over here at Big Daddy Horror Reviews, we would like to extend a celebratory toast to producing, writing partners Meghan Jones and Michael Hoffman Jr., the team behind such immortal classics as Spring Break Massacre, Rot: Reunion of Terror and Sigma Die! We would like to wish you the best of luck with your upcoming nuptials in Las Vegas on Halloween night.The two have shown a knack for putting together films that are amusing little homages to the horror films of the 80's.
With Spring Break Massacre (starring Linnea Quigley and Reggie Bannister in their only on screen appearance together), they paid tribute with an amusingly clever little take on The Slumber Party Massacre. Rot: Reunion of Terror packed one heck of a wallop with a surprising twist ending as it paid homage to Prom Night with a dash of Happy Birthday To Me thrown in. And Sigma Die!
With Spring Break Massacre (starring Linnea Quigley and Reggie Bannister in their only on screen appearance together), they paid tribute with an amusingly clever little take on The Slumber Party Massacre. Rot: Reunion of Terror packed one heck of a wallop with a surprising twist ending as it paid homage to Prom Night with a dash of Happy Birthday To Me thrown in. And Sigma Die!
- 10/27/2010
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
The Prowler (aka "The Graduation" & "Rosemary's Killer") (1981) D: Joseph Zito Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Lawrence Tierney, Farley Granger The year 1981 featured a glut of slasher films in the wake of Friday the 13th's success. Many of them, like The Dorm That Dripped Blood, fall way below the entertainment Mendoza line. The Prowler, however, is an example of one of the better formula films thanks in large part to gruesome special effects by Tom Savini and smart direction by Joseph Zito (Friday the 13th, Part IV: The Final Chapter). The film opens...
- 10/3/2010
- by Dustin Dunaway, Colorado Springs Classic Movies Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
The Dorm That Dripped Blood (aka "Pranks") (1981) D: Jeffrey Obrow, Stephen Carpenter Laurie Lapinski, David Snow, Pamela Holland and Daphne Zuniga. You have to hand it to Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter. What their feature debut Death Dorm lacks in pacing, technical acumen and suspense, it makes up for in sheer ballsiness. How else to describe a film that was renamed to capitalize on the Vincent Price classic The House that Dripped Blood? You may also find the film under its DVD title Pranks. At any rate, it's never a good sign when a film is released under three...
- 10/3/2010
- by Dustin Dunaway, Colorado Springs Classic Movies Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
Things are looking pretty sweet home video-wise over the next few months as some announcements have come out over the past several days, and rather than write up a separate story for each one, we figured that we'd bring it all here for you in one gore-soaked package!
First up, Anchor Bay's little seen or talked about Kevin Costner spooker, Luis Berdejo's The New Daughter, will be hitting DVD and Blu-ray on May 18th, and it tells the tale of single father who moves to a house in the country with his two children following a painful divorce. Soon, however, his adolescent daughter (Ivana Baquero from Pan's Labyrinth) begins acting strangely, and the household is plagued by disturbing events. John begins to suspect that the mysterious mound at the edge of the forest may have something to do with her ominous behavior.
Then, on June 15th from New Century,...
First up, Anchor Bay's little seen or talked about Kevin Costner spooker, Luis Berdejo's The New Daughter, will be hitting DVD and Blu-ray on May 18th, and it tells the tale of single father who moves to a house in the country with his two children following a painful divorce. Soon, however, his adolescent daughter (Ivana Baquero from Pan's Labyrinth) begins acting strangely, and the household is plagued by disturbing events. John begins to suspect that the mysterious mound at the edge of the forest may have something to do with her ominous behavior.
Then, on June 15th from New Century,...
- 3/3/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Here is some exciting news from the revamped (again!) Fangoria website. Synapse Films has acquired the rights to The Dorm That Dripped Blood with "many other exciting titles" that they plan to announce in the next few weeks. Synapse’s Don May Jr. told Fango, "We’re working with [director/producer] Jeffrey Obrow, and we’ve uncovered his original answer print, which is titled Death Dorm. He believes that when the film was released as Dorm That Dripped Blood, the theatrical distributor did some editing and changed things around, in addition to the name. Our print is the only 35mm version of the film with the Death Dorm title, and it may contain footage that nobody has seen in 30 years."...
- 3/3/2010
- by Press Release Robot
- HorrorYearbook
Fangoria got the first word from Synapse Films that the DVD company have acquired the 1982 "slasher" pic The Dorm That Dripped Blood . While still in the very early stages, Synapse's Don May Jr. told the mag that the print they're transferring from "is the only 35mm version of the film with the (alternate) Death Dorm title, and it may contain footage that nobody has seen in 30 years. Because it hasn.t been shown in three decades, it's very clean, so it.ll be the best-looking version of the film ever on home video." In the pic (which stars a young Daphne Zuniga), a group of college students are helping prep the demolition of an old dorm when they begin getting picked off by a mysterious killer who uses a wide array of murder methods. No features are set...
- 3/3/2010
- shocktillyoudrop.com
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