He uses to dissect an accruing collection of pretty (and often naked) coeds.

The film then segues to 'current' time (meaning circa 1982), where a college campus is suddenly beset with a madman wielding a chainsaw, Narrative standpoint, stitching together (no pun intended, considering one of the film's gorier denouements) some outrageously bloody sequences Pieces functions adequately enough as a whodunit (or, perhaps more accurately, who's doing it), but it's pretty labored from a Gruesome series of murders involving (yep, you guessed it) a chainsaw seem to have something to do with this supposed historic incident. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Pieces is going to revisit this character as an adult, as a Retreats to a nearby closet, where the police find him whimpering, coming to the understandable conclusion that he's an innocent bystander and No one is opening the door, the little boy, who has since sawed his mother into conveniently small chunks, has to think quickly, and he rather That at least allows the little boy to complete his puzzle assembly, but when a visitor calls the police to investigate Material, a forage which comes to a rather spectacularly bloody end when she turns around to greet her son who is wielding an axe and puts a The mother starts routing through the boy's room, evidently finding other objectionable Mom is none too pleased about this discovery, blaming the boy's interest on his missing father,Įvidently had a similar fascination with female anatomy. Jigsaw puzzle of a naked woman by his mother. The 1940s (where some time traveler delivered a touch tone telephone, it might be pointed out), where a little boy is caught, well, piecing together The film offers a pretty standard structure, beginning with a vignette that supposedly takes place Like a Latin version of an Italian giallo. Juan Piquer Simón doesn't have any overly Arty ambitions and is instead content to ply a fairly traditional horror ambience that in some ways plays

Think it is and You don't have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre make it pretty clear that this 1982 effort from Spanish director Pieces' marketing campaign contained two tag lines (reproduced on Arrow's packaging for this release) which pretty much sum up the filmĪs accurately as possible. Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, May 25, 2017

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