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Christopher George, Edmund Purdom, Frank Braña

Young co-eds are being cut up by a chainsaw killer on a college campus. The killer is attempting to put together a human jigsaw puzzle made from body parts.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 29 min.

Directed by: Juan Piquer Simón

Release Date: December 31, 1982

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DVD Release Date: June 15, 2000

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  • markymarkslunggnome
    February 9, 2009
    markymarkslunggnome
    FUN! Groundskeeper Bluto is a champ. Vomit, Pissing your pants, Ninjas... How does a geek wearing a baby blue cardigan manage to sleep with the entire female college population?! Why did he wait till he was in his 50's to start killing? "Got a light?" That's it, make the paralyze...( read more)d chick walk it off. "The most beautiful thing in the world is.." "Bastard!!"
  • stopitgoaway
    February 7, 2009
    stopitgoaway
    Juan Piquer Simon's "Pieces" is one of the most hilarious slasher movies ever made.In the early 1940's a little boy is caught by his mother while he is assembling a puzzle with a naked lady on it.The boy gets mad when his mother takes his puzzle,so he kills her with an axe.40 yea...( read more)rs later somebody butchers random college chicks with a chainsaw."Pieces" is a highly entertaining gore trash filled with enough blood to satisfy horror fans.There is for example a lopped off arm,a severed flying head and a knife through the mouth murder scene.The ending is incredibly surprising and hysterical.There is also a violent kung fu teacher and death by mirror.So if you're a slasher/giallo fan give this one a look-you won't be disappointed.

    How could I not love this movie? It is a rare cinematic occurrence indeed to find such delightfully sleazy ingredients as chainsaw massacres, disco aerobics, on screen vomiting, pornographic jigsaw puzzles, a girl wetting her pants, and a guy salivating over a woman's feet all in one place. Only from the combined minds of Joe D'Amato, Dick Randall, and J. Piquer Simon could such a thing spring forth ? and judging from the number of reviews here, I'm not alone in my fondness for this movie.

    Many of the cast members will be familiar to fans of these kinds of movies. Christopher George (having already been through Graduation Day and a trip to the Mortuary) is a strong lead as the no-nonsense detective on the case, while Jess Franco veteran Jack Taylor creeps around the increasingly decimated campus as an anatomy professor. Of course the victims are just anonymous dead meat, but then that's all they need to be.

    Say what you will about the overall quality of the film, but one thing's for sure - Pieces doesn't suffer from a lack of blood and guts. The crimson stuff flows freely once the chainsaw starts up, and the movie actually lives up to the surprisingly honest tagline - `it's exactly what you think it is' - take it or leave it. And the ending - what an ending!
  • organgrinder136
    October 19, 2008
    organgrinder136
    okay for what it is i suppose. fun and gory
  • Sleaze
    February 21, 2006
    Sleaze
    One of the great pieces of cinematic trash.
  • roseypie
    March 16, 2009
    roseypie
    Seeing this movie reminded me of the movies Texas Chainsaw Massacre (which it blatantly commercializes on its taglines) and Amy for the cut-up body parts. I had a hilarious time watching it, to think that it was supposed to be a horror/crime flick. Elements of the film just makes...( read more) it so laughable to watch, typical of the 80's slasher genre, where there is horrible acting from almost everyone in the cast and combined with uppity, rather than suspenseful musical score. I guess what will make it appealing to horror fans is that the death scenes are very graphic and bloody-messy and of course, there's always that topless lady to mutilate.
  • Blaxunshine
    November 3, 2009
    Blaxunshine
    You would figure that a chainsaw isn't a very discrete weapon to be creeping around the campus cutting up girl but these murders have no problem baffling the police. Stupid grubby fun that has a cringe worthy ending right up there w/ Sleepaway Camp that will have men everywhere ...( read more)holding their goodies in pain
  • ahilal
    September 4, 2009
    ahilal
    Cheesy, gory, funny.
  • jobershaw
    January 15, 2009
    jobershaw
    You know what, I should stop right now and issue a warning. Now, I consider myself a serious film fan, in that I see film as more than just entertainment, more than just time spent in front of a screen simply zoning out for two hours. Yet I still have this fascination with movi...( read more)es that are "so-bad-it's-good", and I'm not above saying that I get a kick out of movies that are so inept that I end up enjoying the film because of it's sheer stupidity. So, if you're one of those film fans or critics with a huge stick shoved so far up your ass your nose is permanently turned up to anything you don't find "important" or "moral", then don't read further. I promise you will hate me for this one. I have seen the ultimate "so-bad-it's-good" movie, and it goes by the name of Pieces!

    Directed by Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simon, Pieces is probably the most infamous low-budget slasher flick to ever come out of the subgenre's gory glory days of the early-1980's. The movie's pre-credit sequence takes place in 1942 Boston, where a young boy hacks his mother to death after she catches him- and demeans him- for playing with a jigsaw puzzle of a naked woman. After the credits, the story jumps ahead forty years, and we are at a university where a chainsaw-wielding maniac is dispatching female co-eds and taking severed parts with him. It seems the killer is making a human jigsaw puzzle using parts of his numerous nubile victims. The cops, lead by Christopher George, are (naturally) clueless, so they decide to recruit a former tennis pro (played by George's wife, Linda Day) and a campus "cassanova" (played by Ian Sera) to go undercover to catch the sicko.

    If the premise alone sounds implausible and dumb, you have heard nothing yet! Pieces is a shamelessly repulsive, badly-written, badly-acted, clumsily-edited, politically-incorrect, degrading, dingy-looking movie. This movie is so bad, and so insulting, by all accounts it should be dumped in the garbage and set on fire. However, by some -I'd say hellspawn- miracle, Pieces manages to be highly enjoyable laugh-filled riot, in addition to actually living up to it's massively gruesome hype!

    Pieces promises that "You don't have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre!" and that "It's exactly what you think it is!". Well, I can say that, despite the cheap effects, this is one of the most unapologetically brutal pictures in horror history. The notoriety of the film's violence is definitely not without merit!

    It goes without saying that you don't walk into a movie called Pieces expecting to find a deep, psychological thriller. I didn't. I knew what I was in for. This movie was made long before the days of The Silence of the Lambs and Se7en. By the time those films were made, psychology was seen in the culture as a viable tool to catch a serial killer. Pieces was made in a day and age when horror movies like these (as well as it's hard-boiled cop characters) simply snickered at such ideas. The serial killer was simply a shock tactic; a cheap way for filmmakers to put more blood and guts on the screen. But that's only the surface of it's politically-incorrectness. All of the killer's victims are women, and are hacked in various stages of undress. This is one film that would justify the critics' view of the slasher genre as a misogynistic. Also, the dean of the university refers to another character's homosexuality as an "affliction". And in one of the picture's many illogical moments, we get a few bad Asian stereotypes thrown in.

    But if Pieces is nothing but wanton extreme violence, produced in a time of ignorance, what could possibly make it worthwhile? The only thing more shocking than the gore in Pieces is that the film is so awfully constructed it's actually hysterical! But believe it or not, it's the bad script, bad dialogue, and bad acting/dubbing that serve as blessings in disguise! Seriously. When I say "many illogical moments", I mean it! There are a lot of scenes in the movie that leave you crying, "What the hell?!" and "Oh, come on!" while chuckling at the same time. What's really awful about the script is it's complete and utter inability to build any real suspense and it's oh-so-obvious laziness to develop Paul Smith or Jack Taylor as believable suspects. These two guys end up looking useless. The dialogue of the characters and the actors' delivery are so silly, if you close your eyes you'll think-I shit you not!- you're listening to an episode of "Scooby Doo"! What these shortcomings do is provide Pieces with a lot of unintentional, yet much-needed, humour to offset the extremely graphic and unsettling violence, and in turn, they separate the film from similar, yet oppressively dour and completely irresponsible slasher flicks such as I Spit On Your Grave and Don't Answer the Phone.

    Pieces should be viewed not only by horror fans looking for a history lesson in old-school gorefests, but by anyone in need of an hour-and-a-half full of belly laughs. It has more than enough violence for the gorehounds, but it surprisingly has something for those who want more than that. No one should be ashamed of liking Pieces in this day and age if you find the humour in, and pity, it's political-incorrectness and ineptitude. Hell, you could have your own "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" party with this one.
  • Johnlindsey289
    December 22, 2008
    Johnlindsey289
    Wild and gory Slasher pic from Spain and Puerto Rico that has to be seen to believed.
  • gregleetz
    November 25, 2008
    gregleetz
    I love old school horrors! Chicks were pretty hot too! Never hurts!

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