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Summary: Low budget slasher - mediocre acting
Comment: Probably worth a look if you are a fan of slasher movies, but very low budget and some of the acting is subpar, even for this genre.
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Summary: The best intro and outro in 80's slasher history
Comment: Take what "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"does with chainsaws and add sleaze,tons of nudity,godawful acting,bad english dubbing,girl peeing herself,campus sex,skinny dippin,unnecessary kung-fu and your in horror splatter cheese trash heaven. "Pieces"is a must see for lovers of the genre.Here's some hilarious dialouge from "Pieces". One cop says to the Lt. detective played by Christopher George... "I wonder what he does with all the missing pieces". Head dectective(George)says... "thats what I mean..... creepy","he's creepy"(Um...you think so).Here's some more...One student tells the dean she has some information on the murders that have been going on.To which the dean replies..."I don't know what your talking about", "nothing out of the ordinary going on around here". Okay well back to class then.Maybe some after school dance practice alone,then maybe a shower alone would be okay. Yes...and why not?..Nothing out of the ordinary going on around here,except for some girls getting hacked to "Pieces"on the campus. Before I go here's one more. Two students are having sex in a dorm room.The guy says to the girl..."hey shut up will ya", "I don't see why you have to make a big production out of it your going to wake everybody up in the college hollerin like that", . "There going to think your in bed with chicken saw Charlie.", "Your a hysteric", Girl says..."I'll control myself if we do it again", "Hey where are you going", "Why are you putting your clothes back on?", "If you gag me I won't make any noise then!"......... Later gotta go and work on my jigsaw puzzle
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Summary: Outstanding overlooked slasher pic!
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Back in Boston of 1942, a 10 year old boy was caught by his mother working on a pornographic jigsaw puzzle. His mother is so p'oed that she wants to destroy it but the boy decides to dismember his mom to pieces with an Axe. 40 years later in 1982, a maniacal madman with a chainsaw and a knife is out on a campus at night murdering and hacking up women as he collects some of their body parts to make a jigsaw puzzle of flesh. The local police are on the verge of finding this homicidal killer especially who is behind these atrocities.
Entertaining, sleazy and gory as hell 1982 Spanish-Puerto Rican-American made horror slasher thriller from the legendary Piquer Simon who directed the MST3K fave "Pod People" and "Slugs". The film is a bloody riot from the jaw-droppingly disturbing prologue to the must be seen to be believe yet cringe inducing climax that will make any man squirm, the movie co-stars Christopher George ("City of the Living Dead", "Graduation Day" and "Wonder Woman from 1974"), Paul Smith (Bluto from the 1980 "Popeye" movie), Edmund Purdom, and Linday Day George. The film was originally called in Spain "Night of a Thousand Cries" while here in the U.S. and other countries it's called "Pieces" but released with a different 80's electronic music score in the U.S. version then the brilliant and hauntingly creepy version from the Spanish version with some laughable dubbing. The film does offer ridiculous dialog, hot girls, nudity, shocks, gore galore and one hell of a bizarre ending you won't ever forget as this is one of the most overlooked cult slasher pics ever as it did made a fortune when it came out in 1983 in drive-ins and theaters.
This 2-Disc deluxe edition DVD brings "Pieces" in a highly beautiful and stunning high-def transfer that remasters the film's picture and sound quality to a new level including being the uncut, uncensored version. There's also a version where you can watch the film in it's original Spanish language with subtitles and original score with the original spanish opening credits, an audio option where you listen to the film from film theater audiences who saw a midnight screening of the movie. Interviews with Piquer Simon and Paul Smith, trailer, easter eggs, biographies and filmographies and still galleries.
Also recommended: "Friday The 13th Series", "Hostel 1 & 2", "Cannibal Ferox", "Maniac (1980)", "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer", "The New York Ripper", "Urban Legend", "The Prowler", "Grindhouse", "The Hills Have Eyes (1977 and 2006)", "My Bloody Valentine", "Scream Trilogy", "The Nightmare on Elm Street Series", "Freddy Vs. Jason", "Sleepaway Camp Series", "Nightmare (1981 a.k.a. Nightmare in a Damaged Brain)", "The Shining", "The Toolbox Murders (1978 and 2004)", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Series plus 2003 remake and The Beginning", "The Toxic Avenger", "Stage Fright (1987)", "High Tension (a.k.a. Switchblade Romance)", "Inside (2007)", "Silent Night Deadly Night", "Re-Animator", "Saw Series", "Silent Hill", "Wrong Turn 1 & 2", "Cat in The Brain", "Terror Train", "Last House on The Left", "April Fool's Day", "Slaughter High", "Splatter University", "Final Destination Series", "Don't Go in The Basement" and "Driller Killer".
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Summary: Amazingly Entertaining
Comment: This is a classic piece of 80s horror. It's not scary at all, and you'll figure out who the killer is in no time, but Pieces makes up for its shortcomings in its sheer audacity and its heavy doses of bad movie cheese. If you are a fan of movies that are so bad that they are good, stop reading these reviews and check this movie out lest you spoil any of the surprises.
Pieces is a bad movie, but it's not boring. It gives fans of the horror genre exactly what they want: the gore is legendary, there are gobs of nudity, the music is all synthy and cool, there's dancing, red herrings, bad dubbing and a dash of kung-fu.
The DVD extras are okay. The interviews on Disc 2 are interesting but fall short of being a good "making-of" documentary that you could watch more than once. Most of the extras on disc one consist of Eli Roth gushing over the movie at a recent theatrical showing. There's some fun stuff there, including the theater audience audio track. The Spanish version has a different, more serious soundtrack that's worth listening through also.
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Summary: Disgusting.....In A Great Way
Comment: Wow Words Cant Express How Much I Love This Horror Classic.
The Killings & Gore Are Amazing. The One Scene Where The Girl Gets The Chainsaw Through The Stomach, Grossed Me Out Totally,
Other Great Kills The Elevator Scene, & The Water Bed.
The Ending Is Fantastic. Never Saw It Coming
What A Excellent Slasher To Add To Your Horror Collection
Thank You Grindhouse For Releasing This Classick.........
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