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Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Back in the year 1942, a young pervert in Boston named Timmy gets chastised by his mother for trying to finish a jigsaw puzzle of a naked woman. The boy snaps, and chops her to death with an Axe. Two bumbling cops let Timmy go free. Forty years later, in a campus on Boston, the students are turning up dead, one by one. A serial killer is desiring to form a human jigsaw puzzle with body parts. It is up to Lt. Bracken (Christopher George) a student named Kendall, and former tennis pro, Mary Riggs (Lynda Day George) to try to stop himI've seen this countless times over the years. It was one of the very first horror movies I ever bought, back when I was first discovering my love for horror films. I wore out the DVD. Last night was the first time I had seen it in almost five years. Did it manage to give me entertainment still? Yup. This is European, so we have to put up with some horrible dubbing. Let me get one thing out-of-the-way. This is not a good horror movie. It is laughably bad at times, with horrendous acting, but i'm a lover of cheesy films, especially horror. The killer himself is rather average looking. He's hidden for the most part with a trench coat and a hat on. The gore is a different story. There are some truly nasty things in this movie. A student is cut in half, a woman gets drilled with an Axe repeatedly. Someone gets decapitated with a chainsaw, and much more. My favorites are the water-bed death, and the last scene, which I won't spoil. Ever see a woman pee herself during a stalk scene? You'll see it here. With movies like this, I tend to ignore the plethora of plot holes, but there is one I couldn't ignore. The two cops in the beginning are inexplicably stupid. How is it that there is no conjecturing, whether the boy could be the culprit? They let him go free without even looking into it. He was the only one in the house when his mother was killed, so you would think they would look into the boy being the murder. The acting is what you would probably expect. Christopher George is enjoyably corny as the Lt. His gruff persona was at least fun to watch, if nothing else. Lynda Day George is certainly sweet, and very easy on the eyes. She overdoes the hysterics in a big way, though. (Here is an example. BASTARD, BASTARD, BASTARD!!!!!) Ian Sera is OK as Kendall, but it is hard to rate his performance, since he is dubbed. Edmond Purdom is pretty poor as The Dean. His thick English accent felt out of place. The killer is very easy to predict. I'll be shocked if you don't figure out who it is, early in the movie. They try to throw you off guard, but it doesn't work. The shock ending is utterly pointless in every way. It is unrealistic and absolutely laughable with what they do. Very gory, but very stupid as well. Another carp I have with this film is that it does get a bit talky sometimes. I wouldn't call it boring, but it definitely becomes less interestingFinal Thoughts: If you love cheesy horror movies like I do, you'll most likely find things to enjoy about this film. If you are expecting Schindler's List, you may want to get your head examined. What can I say? I have a soft spot for this film, and I am not ashamed of it5.4/10

'Pieces' is required viewing for any Giallo fan because it's almost an intentional parody of Giallo films. I mean that in a good way.We begin in Boston 1942. Like all true Giallo it pretends to be filmed in America when it's clearly not. Hence the opening caption "Boston 1942" and numerous maps of the USA hanging on walls next to portraits of President Ronald Reagan.Anyway, we begin with a flashback of an adolescent boy hacking his mother to pieces after she punishes him for playing with a pinup jigsaw puzzle. GET IT? Pieces of a woman's body in the puzzle, being hacked to pieces, hence 'Pieces' the title.All grown up the psycho killer has moved to the prime hunting ground of a Giallo college campus, where couples casually make love in the bushes, girl go skinny dipping at night, take showers in the locker room alone, and do sexy aerobics late at night. It's a serial killer's dream! The killer himself goes totally unnoticed, despite the fact that he's always wearing a long trench coat, carrying a chainsaw, breathing louder than Darth Vader, carrying around potatoes sacks of blood body parts, (not exaggerations) and doing all this while leering over girls in various stages of undress. He arouses no suspicions. Again, this feels more like a parody film.Despite the fact that girls are being chainsawed to death left and right on campus, the police choose to NOT warn the students about the killings! Instead they send a blonde cop in undercover to lure the killer out. But with some many students doing things nude and at night it could be long time before he gets around to her.We'd think the students would have picked up on the large number of blood crime scenes and students disappearing all on their own. Then again, since they don't notice a guy with a chainsaw casually walking the halls maybe they really are that stoned.The biggest laugh is Flatfoot (Paul Smith) as the campus custodian. Logically he's a suspect. He too carries a chainsaw around campus. Again, no one seems to notice.SPOILER WARNING!!! In the end it turns out the killer has been using the body parts of his victims to build his ideal woman. Of course we all saw that coming.But just as the closing credits are about to roll the composite corpse reaches out and literally rips off the hero's genitals! There's no explanation for why this happens, the closing credit just roll.I really enjoyed this film and so will anyone whom enjoys Giallo or enjoys making fun of Giallo.

A strange slasher film with some very poor acting. Paul L. Smith wins the honours for worse acting in this daft gore flick but he is also the most entertaining as the very unhelpful gardener whose chainsaw goes on walkabout (why he never feels the need to lock it up to keep it away from the deranged killer is beyond me, but then again there are many points like this in this film). For such a big campus we have very few suspects, three in total (which includes the gardener who is ruled out pretty early) which get wittled down even quicker within the first 30 minutes leaving the viewer with only one glaringly obvious suspect, but never mind... How the murder gets around the campus with this chainsaw hidden is beyond me but there are some pretty neat hacking and dismemberment to watch and the piles of limbs left behind is quite comical. Speaking of which, we are subjected to a hilarious scene when undercover tennis playing police woman finds another victim in the changing rooms (this victim is sawn in half and the legs taken. She screams out "Bastard!" numerous times whilst clenching her fists, and then we have a random martial arts instructor kicking out at her in another scene for absolutely no reason..! There is a God-awful and stupid plot twist 20 seconds at the end of the film that makes no sense whatsoever and almost destroys what is a daft but fun addition to the slasher cycle. I give it 6 out of 10 (an extra point for the gore and a rather good axe job at the beginning of the film).

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.