Pieces (1983)

Best movie ever!

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

When the general public thinks of a slasher film with no redeeming value whatsoever, chances are they're thinking about this movie. It is at the same time the best and worst film you've ever watched. But more importantly, it is never ever boring.Back in 1942, a young boy named Timmy was putting together a jigsaw puzzle of a naked woman. His mother, understandably, is upset and demands he get a garbage bag to throw the puzzle away. Instead, he came back with an axe to her head and then cut her up with a hacksaw. He hides in a closet and the police send him to live with his aunt, as they believe whoever killed his mother had escaped.This all happens within the first minute of this movie. Yes, Pieces packs more gore and strangeness into sixty records than most movies do in ninety minutes.Forty years later, a man in black opens a box that has the bloody clothing of Timmy's mom and a photograph of her. He opens the nude jigsaw puzzle, which is covered in blood and begins to play with it. I hope he has all the pieces! This is why we never buy old puzzles at the thrift store.Cut to (no pun intended) a girl studying outside, who gets her head chopped off by a chainsaw and stolen. Lt. Bracken (Christopher George, Day of the Animals, City of the Living Dead) and Sgt. Holden (Frank Braña, Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold, If You Shoot…You Live, God Forgives…I Don't!) start their investigation, meeting the dean (Edmund Purdom, Absurd, 2019: After the Fall of New York) and anatomy Professor Brown (Jack Taylor, Horror of the Zombies, Conan the Barbarian). Rounding out our suspects would be Willard (Paul Smith, Bluto from Altman's Popeye, one of the first movies that I remember hating as a child), a groundskeeper who is using a chainsaw.Then, in the library, Kendall gets a note from a girl, telling him to come see her at the pool. The killer reads the note first and chainsaws the girl to, well, pieces. Willard is arrested and the detectives find the chainsaw and the girl's body…except for her torso (no, not 1973's Torso).Read more at http://bit.ly/2zuwUTs

If you want copious gore, terrible dubbing/acting, non-sensical scenes, and a killer who uses a chainsaw, then this is going to be right up your alley. There are some great effects and the overall plot of a killer making a human jigsaw puzzle is disturbing enough that you can overlook all of the hilarious weirdness. Well worth watching if you like trash cinema and/or slasher movies. And what the heck was with the kung fu guy that appears for NO reason?!?!?!?

Now this movie came out in the aftermath of the early 80's "slasher" explosion when practically every film of that genre wanted to be a Halloween or Friday The 13th imitation. Some fools might even want to compare it to Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the mere obvious fact that it features a chainsaw as a murder weapon. However, this film is actually much more reminiscent of the old gore films of Hershel Gordon Lewis, inparticularly Blood Feast, and not so much in it's depicted gore (which is much better done in this film) but rather in it's campily sick & tasteless script. What really made "Pieces" a classic was its "unintentional humor." For example, the lady police officer is attacked assaulted by a Kung Fu master, then the guy just stiffens up and drops unconscious to the ground... But when Kendall, the "hero," arrives, it's all well; it's his kung fu professor, after all. Everybody is laughing and smiling as he says..." must have been bad chop suey!" And can somebody please explain to me... What was up with the skateboarding girl? How did that fit into the movie? Did I miss something? Also worth noting is a certain percievable crude humor and sexual innuendo in the killing scenes. How the trenchcoated killer suddenly whips out his wwwwhhhhhiiiirrrring chainsaw, which resembles a huge phallus, and the female victim recoiling, grimacing and shrieking in reaction. And something to be said about the campiness of this film,.. it actually has the effect of rendering the horrifying scenes that much more shocking and powerful when they occur!.. . to almost dissarm one, and I have no doubt that was something calculated on the part of the films makers. It seems to be a kind of intentional deceptive campiness under which a very sly and elusive creative brilliance is at work and designed to put one off their guard so to speak. But there's definitely no competition for the most bizarre ending of any slasher flick.Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

The entire time I watched this the dubbing drove me crazy! The timing is laughably off which is surprising because some of the actors speak English! I've seen them in other films where they are clearly speaking English and yet here, even Christopher George's voice is off! The acting itself isn't bad, it is the dialog, the script that is horrible. There wasn't anyone available to come up with some interesting dialog? Also, the killer is such a cliché it isn't even humorous. He's cloaked in a long black overcoat, wears a wide brim hat, is silhouetted against lighter backgrounds and is shown looking through windows. Really? No one thought that this was way outdated? And the heavy breathing….Some people enjoy the low budget production but really this is just a waste of your time. Skip it! This is bottom of the barrel garbage.