Pieces (1982)

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The co-eds of a Boston college campus are targeted by a mysterious killer who is creating a human jigsaw puzzle from their body parts.

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Director:

Juan Piquer Simón

Writers:

Dick Randall (screenplay), Roberto Loyola (screenplay)
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17 June 2013 | tenebrae70
6
| Good fun but makes little sense
A strange slasher film with some very poor acting. Paul L. Smith wins the honours for worse acting in this daft gore flick but he is also the most entertaining as the very unhelpful gardener whose chainsaw goes on walkabout (why he never feels the need to lock it up to keep it away from the deranged killer is beyond me, but then again there are many points like this in this film). For such a big campus we have very few suspects, three in total (which includes the gardener who is ruled out pretty early) which get wittled down even quicker within the first 30 minutes leaving the viewer with only one glaringly obvious suspect, but never mind... How the murder gets around the campus with this chainsaw hidden is beyond me but there are some pretty neat hacking and dismemberment to watch and the piles of limbs left behind is quite comical. Speaking of which, we are subjected to a hilarious scene when undercover tennis playing police woman finds another victim in the changing rooms (this victim is sawn in half and the legs taken. She screams out "Bastard!" numerous times whilst clenching her fists, and then we have a random martial arts instructor kicking out at her in another scene for absolutely no reason..! There is a God-awful and stupid plot twist 20 seconds at the end of the film that makes no sense whatsoever and almost destroys what is a daft but fun addition to the slasher cycle. I give it 6 out of 10 (an extra point for the gore and a rather good axe job at the beginning of the film).

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The killing of the reporter was difficult to shoot, because a real knife was used albeit nobody got hurt, Juan was a little bit worried, but it was the editing and the post-production which made the scene so brutal. The actress couldn't take the scene at the premier of the movie, and she left the auditorium when her death came onscreen.

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Timmy Weldon: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men. Couldn't put the pieces together again.

Goofs

(at around 1h 2 mins) While Kendall goes to investigate something suspicious in the locker room, he sets aside his tennis supplies on the bench; albeit when Mary and Willard return, the stuff has disappeared.

Alternate Versions

Available in an R-rated version with alternate footage and brief omissions of gore: includes black underwear on the skinny dipping scene, a less gory shot to the Dean's head at the end and the gore omission is in the elevator with a shot of the left arm being sliced off.

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Un'ombra Nell'ombra M21BIS
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From Un'ombra nell'ombra (1979)
Composed by Stelvio Cipriani
Keyboards by Claudio Simonetti

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Genres

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Details

Release Date:

23 September 1983

Language

Spanish, English, Italian

Country of Origin

Spain, Puerto Rico, USA

Filming Locations

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$300,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$604,510 25 September 1983

Gross USA:

$2,032,311

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$2,032,311

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