Pieces
1983 ‘Mil gritos tiene la noche’ Directed by Juan Piquer Simón
Synopsis
Pieces... It's exactly what you think it is!
Young co-eds are being cut up by a chainsaw killer on a college campus. The killer is attempting to put together a human jigsaw puzzle made from body parts.
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Had a great time with this. Any horror movie that has the line "The most beautiful thing in the world is... smoking pot and fucking on a waterbed, at the same time" is bound to be ridiculously awesome. Gory and over the top kills, funny dialogue and one crazy ending.
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Pieces is spectacularly stupid, with terrible acting, dubbing and a script that defies logic. Yet every flaw adds to a greater whole as the film is a lot of fun to watch. It is a Spanish giallo of sorts with a black gloved serial killer stalking the female students of a prestigious university. As with its Italian counterparts logic is something the filmmakers aren’t all that interested in, characters do and say the most random things in the pursuit of entertainment but miraculously it works. It is the sort of film that would be improved immeasurably by alcohol and a group of friends although it can still be appreciated on your own.
The film’s plot is total rubbish; you’ll guess…
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I love this film to PIECES!
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This is one of those movies you need to see with a group of friends to fully appreciate it. It's completely bat shit crazy with some of the most random crap thrown at it. Take the Kung-Fu Professor,a scene so amazingly stupid and pointless you just have to see it to believe it. We are treated to what must be one of the worst Tennis matches you'll ever see on film. The dialogue is unbelievably bad and incredibly funny because of it. Hearing Lynda Day George screaming out Bastard again and again is a particular highlight. I had so much fun with Pieces and i would strongly recommend viewing it with good company.
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Absurd, demented, perplexing, violent, and that’s only the opening 10 minutes, welcome one and all to the 'grindhouse' classic, 'Pieces'. A crazed fever dream one might have if you watched 20 slasher movies all in a row, while eating an entire cheese wheel...yes really!
Opening in 1942, we see a young boy assembling an erotic jigsaw puzzle by himself, soon he is interrupted by his mother who immediately begins scolding him over the puzzles nude content. When she tries to confiscate it the boy gets enraged, taking an axe he hacks her into PIECES! Years later at a Boston campus, someone is chopping up young girls with a chainsaw, could the murders be the work of the boy now grown?As…
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It's hard to believe this is from the 80s and not the 70s! The acting is sooooooo bad and seems dubbed in parts.
Warning! contains a teen girl who goes skinny dipping during the day in the school swimming pool with the door unlocked.
Warning! contains a killer who sneaks a huge chainsaw into a lift without his victim noticing.
Warning! contains a professor who randomly starts doing kung fu moves towards a scared woman then keels over for a minute, then gets up and leaves.
And what the fuck was that bit at the end all about?
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¿Por donde empezar?
Mucha gente olvida la existencia de esta película. Con y sin razón. Eso probablemente vaya a cambiar con los años.
Son dos obvias dos cosas desde el comienzo de esta película, dos cosas son evidentes desde los primeros segundos.
La primera es la vocación de explotación que tiene la historia. No vino a re-inventar la rueda. La única explicación para la existencia de esta película es sencillamente un fin mercantil.
Y la segunda es que, una vez entendido la primera, ¿por que no habríamos de hacerlo en la manera más espectacular posible?
Se ha mencionado muchas veces lo irremediable de la comedia involuntaria que existe en la misma, pero yo puedo obviar eso cuando cada una de las muertes son una instalación en si misma. Juan Piquer Simón debió haber tenido en mente a gente como Fulci y Argento y yo creo que les llegó bien cerca.
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Quite nasty and awesome grindhouse horror. Plenty of nudity, and the violence is pretty graphic for its time.
There is a bizarre and racist fake-out scare scene with the college's "professor of judo" and one of the ridiculous final scares of any horror movie. Well worth a watch.
"You don't have to go to a Texas for a chainsaw massacre!" is an ingenius tagline for a horror movie
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For a film that's so absurd, it really strives to be good and memorable. It may be cheese, but it's gourmet cheese. Unadulterated gory fun. Hilarious ending.
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Oh ha, was eine krude Mischung aus stilvollem Giallo und Brutaloslasher. Pieces bietet wirklich unzählige Szenen die an Blödheit kaum zu überbieten sind, außerdem agieren die Schauspieler herrlich hölzern. Toll ist auch das der Killer mit einer Kettensäge durch das College rennt, Studentinnen niedermäht und dabei nie erwischt wird. Na ja, Pieces ist kurzweilige Exploitationunterhaltung mit hohem Sleazefaktor, kann man sich ansehen.
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I love this film to PIECES!
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Very odd B-movie about a killer who is collecting pieces of women to complete his human jigsaw! Highlights include a woman screaming "BASTARD!" over and over again!
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"You don´t have to go to Texas for a Chainsaw Massacre!" What a perfect slogan for this movie...
Right at the beginning of the film we have a scene of a brutal death made by a child, I was just excited to see the rest of the movie.
Good scenes of homicides is the best this movie has to offer.