#PIECES 1982 DVD MOVIE#
"Pieces" is a totally enjoyable movie going experience if you are a fan of enjoyably bad movies and good gore.For nearly twelve years Juan Piquer Simon's ( Slugs, The Pod People, Supersonic Man) slasher film Pieces had floated around in public domain DVD hell mostly in shoddy unwatchable transfers. I won't spoil it here, but it has to be seen to be believed- actually, even then you might not believe it. Enjoy the scene where a character we've never seen before jumps out of the shadows, does some kung-fu moves, and then leaves, never to be seen again.īut most of all, enjoy the out-of-nowhere insanity of the film's closing moments. Enjoy the scene where a girl on a skateboard smashes through a mirror for no reason, and is never heard from again. Watch for the scene towards the end where she's lying down and Kendall touches her face, then in the next shot he's in the middle of the room, nowhere near her.Īlso enjoy the fact that the cops find the killer's bloody chainsaw, but he somehow magically has it back for the next killing. These scenes are creepy because the actress is old enough to be Kendall's grandmother. Kendall is of no help at all except for the fact that he stumbles on the corpses minutes after the killer leaves the scene and he romances the tennis pro/cop who's hunting the killer undercover. He gets an equally stupid line in this movie with "Right now we're just buying clothes without labels and trying them on for size." He enlists the help of Kendall, a well meaning student who is played by the guy who says "It stinks!" in "Pod People".
But what's just as good is all the scenes between the gore scenes in which the cops try to hunt down the killer.įirst of all, one of the cops is the guy from "Slugs" who yelled "You don't have the authority to declare Happy Birthday!". There's tons of great gore as the unseen killer's chainsaw rips through necks, arms, torsos, you name it. Anyway, this totally-American-and-not-Spanish-at-all killer is on the loose, collecting various body parts for his human jigsaw puzzle. We know it takes place in America, because there are American flags, maps of the United States, and pictures of Ronald Reagan everywhere. What an amazing, totally hilarious, totally entertaining movie!Īfter 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. But now I've seen the one that tops those classics and then some: your take on the chainsaw massacre genre, "Pieces". Thank you, Juan Piquer Simon! First I'm delighted by your wondrous "E.T." rip off "Pod People", then your amazing killer slug movie, the aptly titled "Slugs". Reviewed by zmaturin 10 /10 Lovable gore movie from a great, great director
It's bloody, completely illogical and contains the most unexpected martial arts scene in the history of horror movies (yeah, I know.) If you approach 'Pieces' with the right frame of mind you'll have a hell of a good time. The lovely Lynda Day (Christopher George's wife) plays an undercover tennis coach(!) and spaghetti western veteran Frank Brana is George's sidekick. As in most slasher movies there are plenty of suspects to choose from, including a scary looking gardener (cult favourite Paul Smith, 'Midnight Express', 'Crimewave'), a Professor of Anatomy (Jack Taylor, who appeared in a few Jess Franco classics like 'Succubus' and 'Eugenie'), and the Dean (Edmund Purdom, 'The Fifth Cord', 'Ator'). The viewer knows the killer is obsessed with female bodies and there is a recurring motif involving jigsaws and mirrors. George plays a cop sent in to investigate some bloody slayings on a college campus (the movie is Spanish but tries to pretend it's American).
#PIECES 1982 DVD PLUS#
Plus the star is Christopher George ('The Exterminator', Fulci's 'City Of The Living Dead').
'The Grim Reaper') to name the most notorious of his 150+ movies. It has impeccable exploitation credentials - directed by the guy who gave us 'Slugs - The Movie' and co-written by both Dick Randall (assorted kung fu and Emanuelle movies) and shlockmaster Joe D'Amato, director of the legendary 'Antropophagus'(a.k.a. 'Pieces' is a wonderfully entertaining trashy slasher movie.
Reviewed by Infofreak N/A 'Pieces' is a wonderfully entertaining trashy slasher movie.
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