So, I am going to skip past the synopsis and get right to the blu ray release of this cult classic. While this film is best viewed at a drive-in (I have seen it twice at the drive-in I am proud to say) but this beautiful DVD by Grindhouse would be the second best option.I had already reviewed Grindhouse’s DVD release of Pieces several years ago which you can check out here. Pieces is one of those movies that if I find out a friend hasn’t seen it, I have to throw it in the DVD player right away so that person can have the honor of seeing something so off the wall. Smith talks about his entire career going through films like Midnight Express, Popeye, Dune, Crimewave, as well as Pieces which he believes is a decent horror film! Simon pretty much admits he was screwing around while making Pieces and what it was like to make such a strange film. This 2 disc set also includes the Spanish opening which is just edited differently, the theatrical trailer and what may be the highlight an hour long interview with Juan Piquer Simon and Paul L. Some fans may complain that the picture may look too good since Pieces seems to be made for looking like a grindhouse film. Now, we get to see just how gory but yet cheap the special effects really were. I’m used to watching an old murky Vestron VHS tape I had that was put out in the early 80’s. Grindhouse Releasing does a fantastic job with Pieces, with the picture and sound never looking better.
Adding to the strangeness is the fact that the music in the film is all library music (credited as “Cam” in the film?) and the climax has a dead body tearing apart a man’s crotch. )Īside from the bizarre dialog, Pieces almost purposely doesn’t make any sense with characters suddenly doing something completely out of character. I will argue that this could be one of the greatest and most ridiculous scenes in film history. Chow, in a really bad dubbed fake Asian voice, he tells everyone that he was just out jogging and next thing he knows, he is on the ground, maybe its bad chop suey. Chow, my kung fu professor.” (this is my favorite scene in the entire film as we get a two minute kung fu attack out of nowhere and lasts until the attacker is kicked in the balls. “I guess I’m so used to bodies… dead ones… that I’m callous.” “Professor Brown… you see… is a homosexual.” “The most beautiful thing in the world is… smoking pot and fucking on a waterbed, at the same time.” There are some great lines as well in Pieces, some of them include: It is obvious that director Juan Piquer Simon didn’t take this film seriously at all and kind of said, “Fuck it.” and threw in whatever he could to make this film enjoyable and entertaining. Smith) one student believes that it could be someone else associated with the school and decides to do some detective work on his own. While the police, lead by genre favorite Christopher George and the dean of the school (Edmund Purdom from Don’t Open Till Christmas) think that it could be the groundskeeper (Paul L. Of course, almost all of these women are in some state of undress.
Women are sawn in half, decapitated, stabbed, one even pees herself before being killed. The police somehow buy the story and all is well until we get the classic “_ Years Later” tagline.Īt a college campus, women are being brutally attacked by a killer with a chainsaw but somehow keeps escaping. When police arrive at the scene, the boy lies about what had happened, saying some big man came in and did this to her. After chopping up Mommy and drenched in blood, the boy sits back down and finishes his puzzle. When Mommy catches him and goes completely nuts, the boy takes an axe to Mommy. Shot in Spain with a cast made up of actors who are mostly dubbed, despite being American, Pieces starts off with a young boy in his room working on a jigsaw puzzle of a nude woman. Pieces is a rollercoaster ride filled with complete insanity that one can’t help but laugh or smile. Sure, it ranks up there with I Spit On Your Grave and Maniac as being one of the sleaziest horror films out there but while those films are dark, dreary, and depressing. One thing for sure: I cannot be friends with anyone who doesn’t like Pieces or appreciates its obscure, what-the-hell attitude.
SCENE FROM PIECES 1982 MOVIE
It’s one of those “kitchen sink” films where it throws at the audience everything it can think of: gore, nudity, comedy, kung fu, aerobics…if there ever was a movie that you thought was complete batshit, Pieces may beat that movie. Pieces is a movie that must be seen to be believed.
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