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.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.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.
Lynda Day George
- Mary Riggs
- (as Linda Day)
Frank Braña
- Sgt. Randy Holden
- (as Franck Brana, Frank Brana)
Paul L. Smith
- Willard
- (as Paul Smith)
Gérard Tichy
- Dr. Jennings
- (as Gerard Tichy)
Cristina Cottrelli
- Jenny - Pool Victim
- (as Cristina Cottrel)
Paco Alvez
- Alister Schwartz
- (as Francisco Alvez)
Alejandro de Enciso
- Cop #1
- (as Alejandro Enciso)
Hugo Astar
- Cop #2
- (as Carlos H. Aztarain)
- Director
- Writers
- Dick Randall
- Roberto Loyola
- Juan Piquer Simón(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
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- TriviaBecause 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.
- Goofs(at around 1 min) Although the prologue is set in 1942, the mother tells the boy to get a plastic trash bag, even though it was invented in 1950. Aside from the American version that has this goof, the Spanish version she just asks for a dustbin.
- Quotes
[after exiting the room of a bloody corpse]
Kendall: You see it?
Mary Riggs: YES! While we out here fumbling with that music... the lousy bastard was in there, KILLING HER! BASTARD! BAAAAASTAAARD! BASTAAARD!
- Alternate versionsVHS edition released by EDDE Entertainment omits the important prologue scene before the credits which sets up the plot for the entire film.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Don't Scream: It's Only a Movie! (1985)
- SoundtracksA Strange Symbol
(uncredited)
From Ring of Darkness (1979)
Composed by Stelvio Cipriani
Keyboards by Claudio Simonetti
Featured review
A lot of blooody bloody fun, with a fresh premise
Here's a bloody, and I mean bloody chainsaw flick, this makes the Texas Chainsaw look like pumped versions of The Sound of Music. Take the warning on the front cover seriously before watching the dispatches of torso's whatever that follow. A little boy caught by his mother with a nude jigsaw becomes killer, ending her in just the start of the carnage that follows. Cut many many years later, to the eighties on a school campus, we have a nut, with a chainsaw, cutting his way through nubile bodies to create his own human jigsaw. Siuck f..k. Christopher George, a detective on the case, sends a woman, undercover, who's trained in Karate to catch this madman, where it's not easy. We have one suspect, Midnight Express's Paul Smith as a caretaker, bearing a chainsaw. Could he be the one. A student on campus helps George, in his investigation, going through mugsheets, whatever. This bright intellectual really has his work cut out for him, where he thinks this work is kind of cool. Meanwhile, the chainsaw nut out there is still making the cut. One girl literally wets herself in terror while getting it in the elevator. As an Italian cheapie classic, Pieces is one horror fan's guilty pleasure, with a not so happy ending for an innocent party. If you want blood and hot bodies, don't pass this one up. I'd option for this over the Texas Chainsaw Massacres anyday. The Asian jogger who went to attack our undercover hottie, who outwits him, then takes off again as though everything's cool. What the hell was that about.
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Box office
- Budget
- $300,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,032,311
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $604,510
- Sep 25, 1983
- Gross worldwide
- $2,032,311
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1(original & negative ratio / European theatrical ratio)
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