
While playing with a puzzle, a teenager is repressed by his mother, and he kills her and severs her body with an ax. Forty years later, in an university campus in Boston, a serial killer kills young women and severs their bodies in parts, stealing body pieces from each student. Lt. Bracken makes a deal with the dean of the campus, and infiltrates the agent Mary Riggs as if she were a tennis teacher and together with the student Kendall, they try to find the identity of the ki... (Full plot summary below)
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While playing with a puzzle, a teenager is repressed by his mother, and he kills her and severs her body with an ax. Forty years later, in an university campus in Boston, a serial killer kills young women and severs their bodies in parts, stealing body pieces from each student. Lt. Bracken makes a deal with the dean of the campus, and infiltrates the agent Mary Riggs as if she were a tennis teacher and together with the student Kendall, they try to find the identity of the killer.
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| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.Armed with perhaps two of the funniest, most demented, and rapid fire twists in possibly all of film history! |
| Little White LiesAnton BitelIf all this sounds like standard giallo/slasher fare... in fact Simón constructs his film in much the way that the killer recreates his puzzle: taking a bit from here, a bit from there, & stitching all these disparate pieces into a monstrous hybrid. |
| Your Movies (cleveland.com)Gerry ShamrayIn the slasher genre, this is as bad as they come. |
| User ReviewJason AA contender for the greatest 80's slasher movie. This one is just flat out brilliant in its awfulness. |
| User ReviewCaleb BGritty as it is horrific. A mystery as to who kills college girls to create a ghastly human jigsaw representation of his own mother. Mystery+Horror+Unintentional Humor+Gratuitous Nudity = Fun in the 80s...and a jump from your soul type of film. |
| User ReviewGordon TPIECES is AWESOME despite what the published critics in North America say; I was "stuck" in the library yesterday and was reading Muir's "HORROR FILMS OF THE 1980s" book, and he was SCATHING PIECES and quoted another film critic who was condemning PIECES for being low-quality "junk" unworthy of Cinema. If PIECES were so "un-worthy of cinema" then why is PIECES still talked-about a given a 2-disc DVD North American release? "These movies (like Pieces, Hell of the Living Dead, Nightmare City)" probably weren't made to entertain "jive-ass," "high-minded," "cinematically-pedantic" film critics (All of whom appear to be European-American Males with publishing contracts and Literary Agents "granted" them by other "like-minded" European American males). "These movies" are made to sell tickets to an international market and earn a profit. According to Wes Craven, interviewed in The Nightmare on Elm Street Encyclopedia DVD, "these movies" appeal to a lot of "blacks," "Latinos," and "marginalized and/or alienated whites." "Blacks," "Latinos," and "alienated whites" here in North America generally don't write about "these (foreign-slasher and zombie) movies" and how much they enjoy them and why they enjoy them, the only "published film critics" here in The United States of America appear to be (again) "'educated' mainstream 'white people who have been published and "given authority" (i.e. endorsed) by other "White People." Essentially, North American film criticism only "officially" chronicles and judges horror movies from a single vantage point: represented by the observations of Jonathan Muir. I can never be a "mainstream white-American film critic," but I have just as valid observations of horror movies as anyone else. PIECES--I saw it on Vestron Video when it was still "new" in 1984-I showed it at my 13 Birthday Party actually and scared all my friends in doing-so [especially when the police find the boy's mother's decapitated head in the closet. PIECES was my first "unrated" film. Pieces was released unrated here (in the USA) in 1983, but my video-store let me rent it anyway because they listed it as "R--" the amount of blood in every murder-scene was HUGE compared to the Friday the 13th movies I'd seen up until that time. I was expecting the gore and violence to be more intense than the average R-rated horror movies at the time When the mother catches the boy assembling the "dirty" jigsaw --puzzle in the beginning and the boy chops-up his mother with an ax: the boy steadily chops, chops, chops, cops his mother steadily with the ax and his mother writhes spasmodically with each blow more as if she's being bludgeoned than "merely" disremembered. I imagine for PIECES to be granted an R-rating from the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), "they" should have only been allowed 2 chops maximum. And when the girl is literally sawed in half and she urinates herself just before "it" happens would have been "cut" by the MPAA as well. I love the PIECES music-soundtrack that is actually CAM-library film music made by a composer sounding-like Stevio Cipriani: a steady, Goblin-esqe "thump-thump, thump-thump." And come to think of it, PIECES is a little like an Italian Giallo murder-mystery that had me guessing who the murderer was right until the end when he goes after The Feet the last stage in his goal to sew-together a human jigsaw-puzzle. It had been a long time since I'd seen Pieces when I was it at the exhumedfilms dot com show and had TOTALLY FORGOT the final scene . . .the entire audience including me were caught way off-guard!!!!! (Surely That Final Scene would have been demanded to be cut by the MPAA as well). Christopher George, Linda Day George, Paul Smith, and Edmund Purdom are all terrific. Even though the "snowy" Critic-sphere here in America says Pieces "sucks," I say PIECES is WONDERFUL!!!! (totally unrated gore!) |
| User ReviewNelson PAfter seeing a little kid hack up his mother with an ax (and the subsequent arrival of the police who have no reaction whatsoever to the woman's severed head lying in a closet), we jump to "forty years later" at a college campus in Boston. We know it takes place in America, because there are American flags, maps of the United States, and pictures of Ronald Reagan everywhere. It's obviously NOT Spain. Anyway, this totally-American-and-not-Spanish-at-all killer is on the loose, collecting various body parts for his human jigsaw puzzle. There's tons of great gore as the unseen killer's chainsaw rips through necks, arms, torsos, you name it. But what's just as good is all the scenes between the gore scenes in which the cops try to hunt down the killer are the hilarious bits of dialogue and scenes with Kung Fu teachers.But most of all, enjoy the out-of-nowhere insanity of the film's closing moments. I won't spoil it here, but it has to be seen to be believed- actually, even then you might not believe it. "Pieces" is a totally enjoyable movie going experience if you are a fan of enjoyably bad movies and good gore. |
| User ReviewMatt HOne of the greatest "so bad it's good" movies. This has everything you would want from a bloodbath slasher. I love the over-acting and completely ridiculous nature of the killer. It's like Norman Bates on acid. The gore and nudity is extremely over the top, the plot makes no sense at time, and it's nowhere near intelligent. However, I really like the way it's shot. It really captures the 80s nicely. |
| User ReviewGreg FThis movie was such trash!! This one stars Christopher George dubbed over in Spanish. I sort of had the feeling all the characters were dubbed over Into spanish. A maniac armed with a chainsaw terrorizing A Boston College's Campus in 1982! Pretty awesome!! Some pretty good kills in this one Including someone being stabbed through the head!! The scene with the Mutilated body in the shower was truly amazing. This an above avarage Slasher, and sick and depraved people like me, be sure to check it out! |
| User ReviewKristal C"Oh...that's my kung fu professor!" This movie is genius. |