spencergrande6 Pieces both did and did not live up to its reputation. That's fair to say of many things with a certain anticipation coming into them. I could see what people fell in love with here, but it didn't win me over. There's graphic nastiness and it's great and all and the plot is all red herrings and nonsense which can be entertaining. Yet, unlike a surreal giallo or a nasty slasher, it lies flatly in between a bunch of tones. There's not quite enough imaginative gore (there's plenty but it's straightforward in its application) to enjoy is as a piece of visceral entertainment, not enough crazy plot to enjoy it as comedy - it has some interesting eccentric characters and a nasty enough central gimmick but it's good not great in the slasher pantheon.

TheRedDeath30 You probably know, right from the beginning, if this is the sort of movie you might like or not. This is a movie that requires a certain penchant for candy apple blood, ridiculous murders and even more ridiculous plot lines. DO NOT got into this just for the gore. If you are an admitted gorehound and that's all you are interested in, you will appreciate the murders, but probably come away wondering why you just spent 90 minutes on this movie.Essentially, an American attempt to make a giallo film. It has all of the bad trademarks of that style with very few of the good things. We get a black-glove killer and a lame mystery whodunit as we try to determine which character is the killer. We get plenty of bad dialog from people speaking like no one you've ever met in real life. It's full of ludicrous plot points. A tennis champion spends her days working as a secretary in a police office (because they don't have sponsors or training to do or anything like that). She volunteers to go undercover in an attempt to capture the killer. The officer in charge worries for her safety, though, so rather than put a few uniforms to watch over her, he enlists a college kid who was a suspect five minutes ago. The college kid gets more and more involved until they've basically done all but give him a badge. All of this is only really necessary to set up one final shock in the movie.The giallo style is mixed quite heavily with sleazy exploitation horror. It wants very badly to feel like a "dirty movie" and I don't necessarily mean pornographic, but it wants to capture that MANIAC feeling where the viewer walks away unclean from having viewed something nasty. It never really figures out how to accomplish that, though. Plenty of reviews will focus on the nudity and the gore. I didn't find much more nudity than you would see in any number 0f 80s horrors. As for the gore, there is plenty of it. While no DEAD ALIVE, each murder shows the director gleefully spraying the red stuff all over the scene.It's a bad movie, but there's something really amusing about it. I hate to use the "so bad it's good" because most bad movies are just bad. However, the silly plot and characters, the bad attempts at humor and the memorable murders all add up to make this at least memorable, if not really good.

gwnightscream This 1982 horror film stars Christopher George, Lynda Day, Ian Sera, Edmund Purdom and Paul L. Smith. This begins with a young boy working on a jigsaw puzzle and soon he kills his demanding mother. Forty years later, a mysterious killer starts butchering selected victims at a college campus with chainsaws and knives. He uses their parts to make a jigsaw puzzle in the form of a body. The late, George (Graduation Day) plays police lieutenant, Bracken who tries to find the killer, George's wife, Day plays tennis player, Mary Riggs, Sera plays student, Kendall who helps the police, Purdom plays the Dean and Smith (Popeye) plays grounds keeper, Willard. This is a decent slasher flick with some gruesome deaths and a good, atmospheric score I recommend for fans of the genre.

PeterMitchell-506-564364 Here's a bloody, and I mean bloody chainsaw flick, this makes the Texas Chainsaw look like pumped versions of The Sound of Music. Take the warning on the front cover seriously before watching the dispatches of torso's whatever that follow. A little boy caught by his mother with a nude jigsaw becomes killer, ending her in just the start of the carnage that follows. Cut many many years later, to the eighties on a school campus, we have a nut, with a chainsaw, cutting his way through nubile bodies to create his own human jigsaw. Siuck f..k. Christopher George, a detective on the case, sends a woman, undercover, who's trained in Karate to catch this madman, where it's not easy. We have one suspect, Midnight Express's Paul Smith as a caretaker, bearing a chainsaw. Could he be the one. A student on campus helps George, in his investigation, going through mugsheets, whatever. This bright intellectual really has his work cut out for him, where he thinks this work is kind of cool. Meanwhile, the chainsaw nut out there is still making the cut. One girl literally wets herself in terror while getting it in the elevator. As an Italian cheapie classic, Pieces is one horror fan's guilty pleasure, with a not so happy ending for an innocent party. If you want blood and hot bodies, don't pass this one up. I'd option for this over the Texas Chainsaw Massacres anyday. The Asian jogger who went to attack our undercover hottie, who outwits him, then takes off again as though everything's cool. What the hell was that about.