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  Review by Tony the Terror 🎃 ★★★★★ 16

  Listen, I am here to tell you today that, and I don’t say this lightly, this is absolutely the greatest 80’s slasher of all time. I know that might be a bit of a bold horror statement to some, but you’ve got: B-movie power couple Christopher and Lynda Day George, exsquisite and abundant gore, awful dialogue, random kung fu interludes, chainsaw dismemberment, waterbed slashing, red herrings everywhere, aerobics dance numbers, a tennis pro turned cop turned undercover tennis pro, a shifty gardener, Edmond Purdom, and a cameo by an early 80’s Wendy’s drink cup and fry carton! WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED??

  I will never ever get tired of this trashterpiece and it is the perfect choice for the final movie of Joe Bob’s Last Drive-In.

  Bananameter: 🍌 “BASTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRDDD!!!!! 🍌

  side note: JBB’s explanation of the clones of Bruce Lee is also my new favorite thing.

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  Review by Jeremy Milks ★★★★★ 2

  "Well, I'm not a pathologist, but even a layman can see it was done with this." (points to extremely bloody chainsaw sitting right next to eviscerated body)

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  Review by Ian West ★★★★★ 2

  "Bastard! BASTARD!!!!!!! BASTARD!!!!!!!!!!!!"

  Or if you watch the highly recommended Spanish version on the Grindhouse Releasing blu:

  "Bestia! BESTIA!!!!!! BESTIA!!!!!!!!!!!"
  
  Pieces is without question one of most enjoyable and unforgettable films I have ever seen. I was ready to write a huge long winded review professing my undying love for Pieces and director Juan Piquer Simón but there really isn't anything else I can add that others haven't said already, so I'll just comment with this:

  Juan Piquer Simón, I LOVE YOU.

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  Review by Matt! ★★★★ 4

  I was prompted to revisit this bloody bag of goodies by Slugs, Juan Piquer Simón’s other cinematic trashterpiece, and man did it not disappoint. The most “giallo” that a non-giallo has ever been while simultaneously being an utterly dumpster-diving grindhouse extravaganza, Pieces is more than just a Boston-based yellow-chainsaw-wielding slasher piece where not a single person has a Boston accent (not even the cuawps!). At a point, it becomes so exploitative that you start to wonder if it might just be fully self-aware (it is), and it’s here that you begin to appreciate its full glory. Blood! Boobs! Limbs! Mommy issues! College coeds getting chopped into literal pieces! Bizarre product placement! A nonsensical final jump scare! Lynda Day George screaming…

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  Review by Todd Gaines ★★★½ 31

  A maniac is on the prowl. He's lurking over a New England college campus. He dresses like the Shadow. He sports a black hat, mask, pants, and shoes. He hides in the bushes. He enjoys stalking his prey. When the time is right, he pops out and uses a chainsaw to slice and dice his victims into small pieces. What's he trying to accomplish? Well, he's playing jigsaw puzzle. With each new victim, comes a new piece of his puzzle. Need some arms? Sure, no problem. Just go all Leatherface on a naked college Co-Ed. Yup, not just any puzzle, but a puzzle made with human body parts. When the bodies start piling up, the fun is just beginning, in…

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  Review by Sean Baker 5

  Even though I saw this film 30 something years ago, this was like a first time watch for me. The Grindhouse Releasing Blu-ray is fantastic and the restoration looks great. After seeing Slugs last year, I'm convinced Juan Piquer Simón is one of the greats.

  From imdb trivia: Because producer Dick Randall was simultaneously making kung-fu films in Rome, a cameo for a Bruce Lee imitator, Bruce Le, was written into this film, even though this scene makes no sense in the context of the rest of the film.

  Grindhouse releasing Blu-ray:

  SPECIAL FEATURES
  – TWO complete versions of this shocking gore classic:
  PIECES (83 min.) – the original, unrated U.S. theatrical version, presented in English
  MIL GRITOS TIENE LA…

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  Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★½ 23

  Nudie puzzles, chainsaw murders, horny teenagers, creepy gardeners, undercover tennis-cops, arbitrary kung-fu attacks and a lot of outlandish dialogue.

  I came home from work to find a bunch of Arrow blu-rays laying on my doormat, including Pieces, so naturally I had to put this bizarre little movie on. This was actually one of the first cult movies I ever saw. Watching it back then felt very much like picking up a distorted transmission from some otherworldly dimension. I was baffled by it..

  ..and I frankly still am.

  The most beautiful thing in the world is smoking pot and fucking on a waterbed, at the same time.

  Utterly insane and wildly entertaining.

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  Review by Will Sloan

  “Well Roger, my Dog of the Week is a reprehensible piece of sick trash called Pieces, a particularly grisly entry in the neverending line of mad slasher movies. The so-called ‘story’ is nothing but an excuse for grisly killings on a college campus, each more tasteless than the last. The studio wouldn’t send us a clip - maybe they were worried about word getting out - so all we can show you is this poster, which promises: ‘You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre.’ How clever. And what’s particularly vile about this picture, Roger, is how much it delights in the torture and murder of young women. It’s a trend we’ve seen all to often this…

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  Review by VIVE_le_FILTH ★★★ 17

  "So I was slayed by a withering look ... who gives a shit"

  
  Well that's all the proof I need about people who do jigsaws being homicidal killers!

  * on a side note to anyone who's seen this masterpiece, what the hell was with Skateboarding Jenny, was her random death integral to the storyline and I missed it?

  Gone but not forgotten R.I.P. 🛹◻️☠️

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★ 5

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  Still don't love this, wish I did. Weirdly low-energy, with all its inept quirks and big moments lost among a glacial giallo pacing but lacking much of the style. Hilarious moments, sure, and it adds up to a weird concoction, but it's no comparison to Slugs.

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  Review by nathaxnne [hiatus <3] ★★★★½ 11

  Pieces is totally hardcore obsessed with like, four basic things: a) matching blue top/bottom separates, b) blood smears on floral prints. c) everyone in heels nearly all the time, especially during jazzercise and d) tucking sweaters into high-waisted jeans.

  there is a lot of talk about how crazy this movie is but this exact plot could have been made at any point in the following decade by a major hollywood studio, directed by some reasonably famous director who had made some bold independent movies in the 70's and slowly declined into hackwork to pay for a de rigueur cocaine/cigarette-boat fueled midlife crisis and almost no one would remember had it been produced thusly. in fact i am shocked this was…

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 1

  A delirious, uncanny exploitation gem that alternates between operating as an absurdist genre parody and the real (uncomfortably explicit and nasty) deal, and functionally not much more than a haphazard, gruesome assemblage of mutilated pieces of vague scenes you’ve seen before in grindhouse fare amplified for maximum hilarity and inscrutability. There’s not a single real human interaction in the entire thing, just moronically conceived stock characters that have been awkwardly dubbed, walking around the blatant Spain-as-Boston location work and nonsensically bumping into each other as you wait for the obligatory, disgusting, bad-taste Freudian sex-and-death punchline straight out of Maniac or Friday the 13th to occur. Love the extended scene of the unlit-cigar detective and the creepy, mustached anatomy professor standing…