Pieces (1982)

Pieces (1982)
W: Dick Randall and John Shadow
D: J. Simon


Here’s another bought it and it sat on my shelf for months dvd, however this time around I wasn’t emphatically insane about it. It’s a good gory above average chainsaw killer story (not enough of them these days) that made me think of Argento movies and wished I was watching Deep Red. This one is the story of a child who kills his mother and forty years later is on a college campus killing young ladies for body parts…. To stitch back together, oh of course!

This one gets stupid points for bimbos that don’t know how to run, even when a chainsaw is slowly being drawn at them, and amazing detective work by a … detective and a college student! But what makes this movie a classic is the awesome death scenes. When it comes to horror, being scared and watching death is the sexual release. Pieces does not let up, from its opening matricide with an axe to the severing of arms in an elevator, the gore in this flick is delightful. Another of the highlights is an off key performance by Paul L Smith, yeah you know him from PopEye (with Robin Williams) and the criminally underseen CrimeWave, who plays one of the suspects of the college murders. He’s a big eye twitching, on the verge of talking to himself humogous mofo…he also seems to never hear the murders happening… did I mention chainsaws make noises, very loud noises, oh right, One Positive (gratious chainsaw death scenes) plus One Positive (gratuitously naked screaming teenies) equals negative detection of noise! Brilliant!

This movie is pretty terrible, but I liked it anyway. With tons of gore and bad acting this is a party favorite for sure, plus the Dvd available from GrindHouse Releasing has a great transfer and looks clean and crisp, and also it makes the blood look that much more, REAL!