It can’t be properly enjoyed while sober or during the cold light of day, so a more accurate rating would be: One Star (if viewed while sober) Five Stars (if seen under the influence). Lynda Day George had the misfortune of walking in on one of the bodies.You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre!Reviewed by Ian Watson Reviewer’s note: Pieces is an odd duck. Pieces (1982) - Young co-eds are being cut up by a chainsaw killer on a college campus. Pieces (1982) Pieces (aka Mil gritos tiene la noche) was released in 1983, accompanied by a grisly ad campaign that promised 'It's exactly what you think it is' Infamous when it played theaters, it became a cult item in video stores during the 1980's, propped up next to other Carter-era gems such as Driller Killer, Toolbox Murders, and Three.
A young mother walks in on her son putting together the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The majority of the film was shot in Madrid. Will you make it out in one piece Or in piecesWhat it’s all about: Pieces (1982) opens with a prologue set 1942 Boston, though it’s unlike any Boston you’ve ever seen before. Something tells me that there’s going to be a lot of dead co-eds before all is said and done.Enter the dilapidated Sawyer house and meet Leatherface and his demented family of merciless butchers. There’s a murderous psychopath loose on campus and it’s up to real life husband and wife Christopher George and Lynda Day George to solve the crime. Early on in Pieces, Spanish director.
He lovingly obsesses over mementos of that violent day, once again piecing together the blood stained picture puzzle.A perky co-ed on a skateboard crashes through an over-sized mirror. Is all grown up and obviously a little off kilter. Though there’s lots of blood and gore, the axe never hits the actress, it just kind of bounces off her head.Forty years later, Jr. Sonny boy hacks her to death with an axe. She ransacks his room looking for filth, but doesn’t get very far.
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Equating a murder investigation with shopping… it’s certainly an interesting analogy.The killer, who skulks through the library in classic first person slasher-movie P.O.V., sees a pretty blonde pass a note to Kendall (Ian Sera), big man on campus. Brown seems quite interested in the detectives’ theories, “You mean it might be one of the boys?”“Who knows at this stage,” Holden quips, “We’re just out buying clothes without labels and trying them on for size.” Hmmm. The Dean is all business and pawns the detectives off on anatomy professor Brown (Jack Taylor). She continues her reading, but soon looses her head at the hands of the maniac.“Have you heard the latest?” one student asks, passing a joint to his friend, “They’ve just installed a waterbed in the training room.” This seemingly random tidbit is the only explanation we get for a major set-piece later on in the movie.Detectives Bracken (Christopher George) and Holden (Frank Brana) meet with the Dean of the university (Edmund Purdom) to discuss the case of the headless co-ed. That’s the kind of movie were dealing with.A young woman stretches out on the campus lawn trying to study when a mysterious groundskeeper starts up his chainsaw. She’s never referred to again.
This may be the only way we have of catching him.”Speaking of…the killer watches a late night dance class, following one girl who leaves the studio to find the john. That maniac is gonna kill again. “You want to place two of your policewomen on my staff to spy on everybody? That’s asking a lot.”“There have been two murders now. I’d say it’s elementary.”The Dean gets his knickers in a twist when he hears the detectives’ plan. “Well, I’m not a pathologist,” he insists while getting his fingerprints all over the murder weapon, “but even a layman could see it was done with this.
I’m bored to tears with this place.” Desk duty is no place for a former tennis pro turned police detective. When Bracken tells her yes, she just about jumps for joy, “Good, I’ll do it. “Is this job dangerous?” Mary Riggs (Lynda Day George) asks. She’s safe for the time being.After nearly thirty minutes of screen time, the real star of the picture finally appears.
“Nothing has been happening I assure you. The Dean congratulates Mary on a great game and hopes that, “This whole wretched business will be resolved with a minimum of fuss.” Sylvia Costa (Isabel Luque), a local reporter, begins asking questions. In the DVD extras we learn that the actresses had ever picked up a racquet before in their lives, a fact that is painfully obvious when watching the scene. Seems to be short on undercover cops, Kendall the campus Casanova will help her with the case.Mary’s first assignment is an exhibition match with a female student.
Her companion turns out to be the killer. She finishes up and goes to the elevator where she is surprised to find someone she knows. In a shot that goes on and on and on, the killer fumbles with the jigsaw pieces, continually trying to jam them into place.He makes a return visit to the dance studio where a leggy beauty rehearses all alone. Awkward, oversized gloves. To help keep the killers identity a secret, the actor wears gloves throughout the movie. That kind of emphatic denial isn’t suspicious at all.Meanwhile, the killer continues to play with his puzzle.
He gives the audience a bit of full frontal when he goes to his bedroom window and spots Mary down below, snooping around.The killer, his chainsaw at the ready, watches Mary. Bracken arrives on the scene to find the entire cast lined up as if they were in an Agatha Christie whodunit.There are more shrieks in the night, only this time the screams come from a girl on the receiving end of Kendall’s considerable sexual prowess. All he finds is a bloody corpse. Her screams are heard across campus and Kendall rushes to her aide.
Kendall rides up on his dirt bike, “Hey, it’s my kung fu professor.” The Bruce Lee wannabe trots off, blaming the attack on bad chop suey.Reporter Sylvia Costa explores the dark, deserted campus. She defends herself by kicking him where it counts. Suddenly she is attacked by a ninja.
She hides in a bathroom stall, so terrified that she wets her pants. She tries to flee but her only route of escape has been blocked. The killer comes after her in the locker room, chainsaw buzzing. He stabs her repeatedly, water and blood gushing artistically in slow-motion geysers.The next day, a female student finishes her tennis workout and hits the showers.
“While we were out here fumbling with that music,” she emotes, “That lousy bastard was in there killing her. Pieces is worth watching for this single moment alone. After the annoying music is finally turned off, they find the bloody remains of the recent locker room massacre.Lynda Day George’s performance in this scene is pure bad movie nirvana. Mary and Kendall find Willard nearby acting suspicious, but then again, when is he not acting suspicious? It’s his sole reason for being in the movie. The incongruous choice of music plays throughout the scene of gore and mayhem.The killer slices trough the stall door and makes quick work of dicing up the tennis player.
Take some uppers or something. “We don’t have anymore time. Holden has been diligently sifting through files for clues, but Bracken needs answers now.
The reason behind his gracious demeanor is quickly revealed. He is unusually solicitous. Detective is assigned to help Holden.That night, Mary pays the Dean a visit.
It must have affected his mind.”In the sitting room of the Dean’s apartment, Mary begins to feel the strange effects of the drug. Apparently his mother was chopped up when he was a kid. After a single thirty second phone call, the case is solved.
Like a wall in a haunted house, the bookcase pivots open to reveal the Dean’s pieced together Frankenstein bride. Holden casually leans against a bookshelf. After a job well done, Det. Just when the Dean is about to get the upper hand, Bracken shoots him dead.The jigsaw puzzle is found and the police have their man. He pounces on an unsuspecting Kendall. Unable to speak, she can’t tell them that the Dean is hiding behind the drapes.
In all honesty, most of these aren’t very good, but there is a certain hackneyed charm present in all his films.The film’s producers selected the American members of the Pieces cast. Working primarily in Spain, Simon has written and produced nearly all of his movies, genre fare like Supersonic Man (1978), Mystery on Monster Island (1981), The Pod People (1983) and Slugs (1988). Suddenly, the hand of the corpse bride reaches up, grabs Kendall by the crotch and rips his privates off.In conclusion: Fascinated by cinema at a young age, Juan Piquer Simon worked in publicity before getting the chance to direct his own films. As the police close up the crime scene, Kendall stops to pick up his jacket.
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