over christmas break and a group of college friend stay behind to help prepare the dorm to be tear down and replace by apartment building . to make the work a bit more difficult and a murderous and chuck wear psycho be wander the hall of the dorm and prey on the group in various violent way . register a one of the 74 video nasties list by the u. k. in the 1980s and the dorm that drip blood have a good reputation build up for it prior to first viewing . the term video nasty strike into mind some image of some great explicit gore and violence and sex and etc . represent all the thing a horror fan dream of . so and after hear all of that info and i settle into prank ( alt . title ) expect a sleazy slasher experience . . . and that what it try to be and but fail pretty much completely . visually and the film not great . the cinematography and gore ( except for a couple scene ) and and overall direction all fail . it simply not enjoyable to watch . the unoriginal script be lack and often throw in random thing without any real reason ( like the opening kill ) . there be some cool death scene and include a pretty nice face melt ( which can be see on the poster ) and but that about it for the positive . the acting be pretty bad and the story seem unimportant and the killer isn not cool or scary and and it suffer the one major error that any slasher flick should always avoid represent it a bit boring . overall and for a film do by a few ucla film student for $ 90 and 000 ( which would be over double that today ) and the dorm that drip blood isn not a total mess . it have a couple good thing and and be fairly watchable . . . but and a a slasher flick look to be on the level of film like the house on sorority row and piece . . . it just can not compare . don not expect much and and you may at least be entertain . i hate to say it and but this be one of the few film i have see that would actually be good with a remake . . . and yet and they go after great work like black christmas . oh well . . . obligatory horror element represent subgenre represent slasher violence or gore represent there be some brutally cool kill and and the gore be okay for the most part . . . but nothing special . also and they off screen some of the best murder . sex or nudity represent there a little unappealing ( to me ) nudity and but not very much . cool killer ( s ) represent nah . the end monologue ( s ) of the killer make him or her pretty uncool . scare or suspense represent a jump scare or two and but nothing too effective . mystery represent i suppose and yeah and but i simply do not care enough and and it as obvious a the nose on the killer face . final verdict represent 3 . 75/10 . bah . humbug . ap3 .