PIECES (1982)

[FatFreddysCat]

Ahh yes, good ole Pieces. It's a terrible film, but a highly entertaining one.

Fave bits are the random kung fu guy, Lynda Day George's outraged scream of "BAAAAASSS-TAAAARRRRD!!!," and the co-ed who blithely gets into an elevator with the killer, somehow failing to notice that he's concealing a huge chain saw under his trench coat. :D

The film poster had one of the all time great tag lines - "You don't have to go to Texas for a Chainsaw massacre!" :D

[zombie no.one]

and the co-ed who blithely gets into an elevator with the killer, somehow failing to notice that he's concealing a huge chain saw under his trench coat. :D

another bit I chuckle at every time- altho her subsequent demise is extremely grisly. the waterbed death is pretty disturbing too

the actor Edmond Purdom also directed DON'T OPEN TILL XMAS in 1984 which is worth checking out, if anyone hasn't. it's kind of ridiculous

[JuanSnz]

I watched 'Pieces'.

OK, the movie has flaws, the dialogues sound like dubbed, but I guess is because the script was written in Spanish, and then, tried to literally translate it to English, so in some part the dialogues sound 'artificial'. The last minute, is a kind of "WTH, did I miss something?"... And the Kung Fu instructor, well, at least is not dressed in a yellow jumpsuit

And yes, the movie is mad, bad, and dangerous

[zombie no.one]

I watched 'Pieces'.

OK, the movie has flaws, the dialogues sound like dubbed, but I guess is because the script was written in Spanish, and then, tried to literally translate it to English, so in some part the dialogues sound 'artificial'. The last minute, is a kind of "WTH, did I miss something?".

no I still can't work out the shock ending... but I like that I can't  

and yeah... "where are my pectorals?" there's some great bad dubbing no doubt. although actors like Christopher George and the aforementioned Edmond Purdom would presumably be saying their lines in English... probably studio re-voice-overed as well afterwards, by themselves

[chainsaw midget]

The shock ending doesn't make a lick of sense, but somehow it works.  It feels like it belongs rather than just being something they tacked onto the end.

[FatFreddysCat]

Inspired by this thread, I re-visited "Pieces" last night on Tubi. It's just as cheap, cheesy, and unintentionally campy as I remembered.

I now have another favorite scene: when the cops are cleaning up the murder scene at the swimming pool, and Christopher George asks the professor if the blood covered chainsaw next to the body could have been the murder weapon. Gee, YA THINK?  

[zombie no.one]

^^ haha yes I had forgotten that scene and had to lol when I just watched it again...

also, what do you do when you're lying beside a swimming pool and there's a guy with a chainsaw about to mess you up? the answer is apparently DO NOT jump back in the pool and swim away to safety.  just stay put and take it. obviously!

[JuanSnz]

I'm still chuckling when I remember the quote 'Oh, he is my Kung Fu instructor'

I don't know, but I think that the producers trying to make implicit one of these options:

1. The students don't get an idea of the murders, except the main character and his friend.

Or

2. The students know about the murders, but they were asked to not tell anybody outside the College. But this option don't stop some girl practiced her dancing alone on a night, or this doesn't explain why there are no parents claiming Justice for their daughters.

I mean, I don't remember that the police or the dean said something like "Don't tell anything to the students" or "Tell the students that they are in danger, and don't be alone in the night, specially to the girls".

[zombie no.one]

well they definitely didn't want the press to know...

that's a classic slasher trope though: life carries on as normal in X establishment, despite daily murders.

AEROBICIDE is a good one for that

[chainsaw midget]

well they definitely didn't want the press to know...

that's a classic slasher trope though: life carries on as normal in X establishment, despite daily murders.

AEROBICIDE is a good one for that

Because everybody knows you can't just close the beaches. 

[Criswell]

Pieces is my favorite movie set in Boston that's definitely not actually Spain or anything.