The co-eds of a Boston college campus are.Some horror movies can live solely on their carefully crafted hype. With Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Frank Braa, Edmund Purdom. 96 of 97 found this interesting.Pieces: Directed by Juan Piquer Simn. Jump to: Spoilers (6) Because 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. Pieces (1982) - Trivia - IMDb.
The question remains, however, does the movie match the marketing – or is this just another case of carefully chosen words speaking a heckuva lot louder than the action on the screen. Technical Specs.Thanks to VHS and the thriving home video market, the sleazoid shocker became an instant cult classic. Overview Credits Film Details Notes. There was a closeup shot of a chainsaw that I had seen from a television spot (in the 90s no less) for Pieces that was followed by a topless woman being chased into a stall, later rendered useless as an. Back in 1982, distributors desperate to continue the coattail ride started with Halloween and Friday the 13th took the Spanish splatter film Mil gritos tiene la noche (“The Night Has a Thousand Cries”, roughly), renamed it, and added the intriguing tagline “You Don’t Have To Go To Texas For A Chainsaw Massacre!” With a final carnival barker punchline – “It’s exactly what you think it is.” – the results were unleashed on an unwitting world.Though Pieces is somewhat light-hearted in its brain damaging execution, it warrants being a horror tale not suitable for those under eighteen.
Using a chainsaw to carve up the bodies, the police are baffled by the murders.Pieces (1982) KILL COUNT is the two hundred and seventieth video of James A. On a small college campus, young girls are being viciously vivisected by an unseen killer. After a particularly gruesome showdown, we flash forward forty years. We are introduced to a young boy, tormented mercilessly by his blousy whore of a mother.
Pieces 1982 Crack The Case
Bracken (a nicely cheesy Christopher George) hopes to crack the case with a two fold approach. When the police arrive, Timmy hides. After she orders him to dispose of the puzzle, he returns with an axe, murders her, then dismembers her body with a hacksaw.
As the body count rises, Bracken grows desperate. Smith, with Lawrence Tierney’s voice) and the slightly fey Professor Brown (Jack Taylor). This will allow her greater access to suspects like groundskeeper Willard (Paul L. Secondly, seasoned cop and star tennis pro Mary Riggs (Lynda Day) will go undercover as one of the faculty. This BMOC knows all the angles – and the ladies.
The opening is an obvious homage to Dario Argento’s classic Profundo Rosso, down to the deadly dynamic between parent and child. Director Juan Piquer Simón digs deep into his fellow Europeans bag of terror tricks and comes up trumps more times than not. It is really nothing more than your standard slasher effort with a chainsaw doing all the slice and dice (well, there are a couple of knife kills thrown in for good massacre measure).
While not as active here as he is in such gems as City of the Living Dead, The Exterminator, and Mortuary, he provides the necessary despotic smugness that makes these movies work. Even the ending is unrelenting, delivering not one, or two, but THREE false jolts.As with much of the Mediterranean macabre geared toward Western audiences, Christopher George gives his Cheshire Cat capped grin a good workout as Bracken. While most of the killings occur off camera, their nasty results get full view visits.
Instantly cast off the isle of suspicion, he gets to hit on Day, act as an inspector substitute, emote over various F/X corpses, and show off his larger than average “assets” during a laughable love scene. Similarly, then wife Lynda Day is nothing more than eye candy, reduced at 38 to playing pseudo-paramour for the wispy lothario Sera.And speaking of Kendall, it is clear that Simón sees him as the calm within the monster movie maelstrom. Sure, we see who the bad man is almost immediately, but the cops have to fumble a bit before pulling out their pistols.
Smith, fresh from playing Bluto in Robert Altman’s Popeye, does little except smirk and speak like a certain Joe Cabot. It’s a shame that so much talent takes a backseat to naked babes being butchered. Google offers up a similar overview.Even with the cast’s uneven facets, Pieces manages to work. What started in 1979 was soon over five years later. According to IMDb Sera’s career was also rather short lived. But as a romantic lead, he’s rather limited.
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