Pieces

As Lennon said, "All I am saying is give PIECES a chance..."
Utterly horrible. This DVD was sent to me as a sort of twisted gift by an equally twisted friend and we were both punished by all 90 minutes of this disaster. It's a lousy movie, poorly dubbed, and horribly presented on DVD. And you need to buy it. Now.

Any true fan of horror gore and slasher pics or just cult garbage in general needs this turkey in their library. PIECES can be blamed on director Juan Piquer Simon and stars (shames?) Christopher George and Linda Day. Also featured (embarassed?) is Paul Smith - who appeared as Bluto in Robert Altman's POPEYE. Smith displays the same magnificent acting range that landed him a role of such depth in the finest of Altman's oeuvre.

Here's how the horror unfolds: Young boy is very upset when his mother takes away his nudie puzzle and hacks her up with an axe. Young boy grows up and decides to make his own puzzle out of young girls at a Boston college. With a chainsaw. They often don't see him...

A Horrible Masterpiece!
This unbelievably awful little charmer will have you rolling on the floor laughing.Hilariously bad acting,a script straight from the notebook of a demented 14 year old(or so it seems),production values of a basement shot porno video and dubbing that makes those old kung fu movies seem professional by comparison.This film is a funnier comedy than 90% percent of the so-called comedies ever released!The best moment of the movie had to be the discovery of a body chainsawed in half and the meathead detective turns to another and asks "could that have been done with a chainsaw?"The scriptwriters obviously worked long and hard on the dialogue!This movie has all the requirements of the early 80's teen slasher-exploitation flick:gratuitous sexual overtones,gallons of blood,faux horror music that sounds so amatuerish that you think it must be intentionally bad and with a cast of supposed actors whose movie debutes turned out to be their last.There are bad movies that are just plain...

An absolutely perfect ending makes Pieces a gory classic
Pieces is a movie you just have to love. On the surface, it looks like a laughably bad horror film relying on fairly graphic blood-letting for its appeal, a movie which gives us absolutely no character we can possibly like, not even the bad guy, and a film whose killer is easily identifiable early on. It is all of these things. Then you get to the ending, and suddenly the ghastly ordeal of sitting through ninety minutes of Pieces pays off with not just one but two dramatic moments guaranteed to make you laugh hysterically; before your very eyes, a bad movie transforms itself into a cult classic. This is powerful stuff indeed.

The trouble really starts forty years in the past when a little boy is quietly putting a puzzle together in his room, bothering no one at all. His mother comes in and goes ballistic, just because the puzzle happens to be one of a naked woman. Our future serial killer is rather upset about all this and decides to calm his mother down by chopping her up...

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