Review of Pieces

Pieces (1982)
7/10
Add This Film to Your "Best of the Worst" List
23 January 2009
There were so many outrageously bad things about this film, including (but not limited to) the Police keeping a chainsaw-wielding campus serial killer secret from the press, creaking sounds to accompany a shot of feet on concrete steps, the killer (in black coat and hat) getting into an elevator while successfully concealing a chainsaw behind his back, the jaw-dropping random idiocy of the "bad chop suey" scene...

Hell, just the fact that the killer is a black hat and coat wearing loon who wanders around with a bright-yellow petrol-driven chainsaw dismembering girls on a college campus! This is ludicrous and irresistibly fun – even more than the amazingly stupid Paganini Horror, this demonstrates why bad horror movies can be good. The girls are cute, the gore is effective and the entertainment is non-stop... so long as you don't mind too much that the script and acting are almost surreal in their ineptitude. Undoubtedly the best US/Spanish/Puerto Rican co-production I've seen this year! Incidentally, if you haven't guessed the identity of the killer after, say... the first kill, then you're so stoned this movie might somehow seem good. Enjoy.
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