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 Pranks (DVD)
Description: Genre: Horror / Suitable for 18 years and over / Theatrical Release: 1981 / Director: Jeffrey Obrow, Stephen Carpenter ... more  Pranks (DVD) ... / Actors: Laurie Lapinski, Stephen Sachs, David Snow, Pamela Holland ... / DVD released 13 October, 2003 at Vipco / Features of the DVD: Full Screen, PALNewest Review: ... Or directed with any flair. And it isn't scary in the slightest. A dormitory - especially the nasty concrete building here - ... more ... could be a great location for a slasher film, and it's probably the best thing about this. But it isn't used effectively at all, even though the film does all the obvious things - people getting stuck in lifts, scary noises from the roof, long chases in those big basements full of pipes that American buildings always have...
The cast are generally forgettable, with the exception of one strikingly pretty girl who sadly dies too soon. We don't get to see the killer's face until the last few minutes, and at some po...more |
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Pranks (DVD): About as bad as it gets (582 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 17.03.08 (Very useful, 78 readings)
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A review of just the film. This is a lousy video nasty from 1982. It's tedious, not gory and has almost nothing going for it. Quite why it was banned is a mystery; the fact that it was means that it's probably been seen by considerably more people than it deserves, myself included. Four students - two guys, two girls - stay behind in their college dorm when everyone else goes away for Christmas. They're meant to be packing up and selling the furniture. But - oh my! - there's a psycho killer on the loose and enough extraneous characters wandering around to provide both red herrings and murder-fodder. So what can I say about this, beyond ...
