It’s like he’s begging for the cops to slap him at the top of their suspect list. Smith), who glares suspiciously at every person that steps in front of him. At times, the presentation of these attacks almost takes on a giallo vibe, hinting that the filmmakers here may have found some inspiration in the hyper-violent Italian subgenre, which favored shadowy killers menacing their victims and dispatching them with a myriad of nasty techniques.Īnd then there is the various absurdist touches sprinkled throughout the film, which range from the hulking college groundskeeper, Willard (played by Paul L. The female coeds are carved up with the buzzing saw in unblinking fashion that makes it easy to see why this one was targeted as a video nasty. And trust me when I say, you won’t believe they savagery that Pieces serves up for gorehounds. Let’s just say that subtly wasn’t the order of the day for Pieces! The figure stalks, hyperventilates, and even hilariously conceals the chain saw in various ways as they close in for one jaw-dropping kill after another. The film pads its runtime with surprisingly tense - and hilarious - encounters with a figure clad head-to-toe in black who lugs around a bright yellow chain saw that they carry at their groin like a protruding erection of death. Pieces certainly couldn’t give two shits about the depth of its plot, and it really doesn’t need to. With the pressure mounting to reel the killer in, all parties involved uncover a nasty secret from the past that also explains why victim’s body parts are turning up missing.
As the bodies brutally pile up, the police also bring in undercover cop Mary Riggs (played by Lynda Day George), a former tennis player who poses as a new coach at the school. After another girl is slaughtered at the school pool, the police join forces with Kendall (played by Ian Sera), the college playboy who also happened to be meeting the victim at the pool.
Holden (played by Frank Brana), who initially consult with the college’s anatomy teacher, Professor Brown (played by Jack Taylor) about the crime and the school itself. Bracken (played by Christopher George) and Sgt. The grisly nature of the attack finds the dean (played by Edward Purdom) calling in two policeman, Lt. Pieces picks up on a college campus in Boston that is suddenly shaken by a brutal beheading of one of the students. You just gotta make sure you have the stomach for it! And the best part is that Pieces actually rocks in a so-bad-it’s-freaking-awesome way that actually allows for a level of respect for this twisted little diamond in the rough. It also wallows in an endless stream of gratuitous nudity and violence that landed it on the notorious video nasty list in the UK. It’s got the grunge, the abundance of WTF moments that made the exploitation shockers of this era so damn irresistible, and a shock-a-moment barrage of action that keeps the pace moving at a furious pace. Boasting the tagline, “It’s exactly what you think it is,” Pieces is an undeniably bizarre Spanish slice-and-dice picture that is about as grindhouse as you can get. Piquer Simon’s absurd 1982 shocker Pieces.
Absolutely no one can tell me they have dabbled in the deep end of the slasher subgenre until they have bared witness to J.
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