Best movie ever!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This little movie doesn't have the best ratings, but it deserves a better rep. The soundtrack is creepy and the acting isn't too bad, the plot is eerie and overall it's a classic Eighties slasher.Pieces begins with a little boy viewing his father's pornography when his mom walks in on him. The father is away in the air force and the mom is pretty abusive, not just taking away the pornography but slapping her child and smashing her bedroom mirror. She tells her son to get a bag so they can gather the porn and burn it, but her son comes back with an ax instead and murders mom, leaving an extremely bloody and disgusting scene behind. He then gets sent away to live with an aunt (no one suspects him of the murders). Now that the little boy has grown up, he's decided to go on a murder massacre with a chainsaw as the murder weapon, killing women and taking their body parts to make a puzzle out of.Pieces isn't one of the better slashers out there, nor is it very popular, but it's not bad and it's one that any horror fan should check out.

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.

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.

For various horror genre fans, there are those who enjoy it just for the blood and those who like ones that have a little more intelligence with its blood. This movie has no intelligence in its script at all. I was shocked to see how the plot unfolded and was unimaginably preposterous. The prologue to the story shows a child who was caught by his mother assembling a puzzle with a pornographic photo as its cover. In response to his mother's outlandish temper tantrum, the child grabs and ax (from where might I ask?) and kills her with unfeeling malice. He then hides until the police arrive with his caretaker. OK, so that part of the film isn't bad. It is a nice lead up to how the killer came to be.However, forty years later, the killer decides to come out of nowhere and decides to start chopping people up again. Where's the continuity? A serial killer just doesn't disappear for four decades and then reappears out of thin air. Maybe to make the story sound creepy, the screenwriters could have had the murderer killed off and then he comes out of the woodwork by spirits; but that's not even used. How and why he returns is never explained. So what has the killer been doing for forty years? Vacation? Out killing people in other continents? What?This villainous character does have a mystery surrounding it. As he kills more of his victims, he re-assembles the puzzle he once started when he was interrupted by his mother forty years before. This stirs intriguing questions about his personality and his preferences. Is he looking for a person to match the individual in the puzzle? Is that who he prefers more to victimize? The costume of the serial killer actually resembles The Shadow (1994), but obviously with much darker intent. The music is something too. Composed by CAM, the feel of it is very different from your normal slasher films. It uses a drowning organ tone, and with a bass line in the back. And within those notes are small bells that give the theme an eerie, demented sound. I like these specific elements a lot.But this still does not make this film good because of how terrible scenes were executed. For example, a college student is killed out in the middle of broad daylight, on campus, and no one noticed or heard what happened? How ridiculous is that? And that's just one nonsensical event that occurred. In a slasher/creature film, it is accepted that victims will wander off into danger at the exact moment the killer is in their path, but these particular moments have too many flaws! So many victims are mutilated in areas that are expected to have crowds of people, yet no one is around when it happens!There is lots of blood throughout the killing scenes, and they definitely are brutal no doubt, but they don't make up for the improbable flaws that surround them. Plus, the acting isn't bad, but there are times where the dialog is very strange. Sometimes, even the mouth to voice alignment is off. And the worst, part is at the finale. This is a horror flick but no one said it involved a zombie until the very, very, very, last minute of the film and it totally destroys the ending. Something like that is random and out of place, much like the karate teacher that has nothing to do with the plot at all during one of the tense scenes. So silly. Director Juan Piquer Simón's slasher film isn't unique nor does it have well written continuity. The blood, costume design, and music is there but that's all there is.