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This film is mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

Watch it at least once a year and it always surprises me how demented it is.

What happened to slashers? They used to be so random and insane in the early 80s


http://youtu.be/KCCxGQetNrk (http://youtu.be/KCCxGQetNrk)

Oh, this is a good one.  It's just nasty on a level you don't see much of anymore. 

True. Take the new SCREAM film... some of the killings in that are very brutal, but there's something very mainstream and sanitized about it all

films like PIECES, NEW YORK RIPPER, TENEBRAE (all from 82) have a a really dark and disturbing edge

The kung fu guy was just completely out there.

http://youtu.be/rjCklvZYpDQ (http://youtu.be/rjCklvZYpDQ)

 Speaking of great early slashers- the TOOLBOX MURDERS (1978) was truly f**ked up.
http://youtu.be/4P6YS-QCb9I (http://youtu.be/4P6YS-QCb9I)

The very definition of a good-bad movie. It's hard not to be entertained by this unless you prefer your movies without cheese.

Oh yeah the 80s slasher cheese factor is usually high  :smile:



I don't care how un-PC that scene is it always makes me howl...




I thought the first half of that was great... tbh I wasn't as keen on the direction it took later on but still enjoyed it

If we're namechecking slashers from that era I'm also really into GRADUATION DAY, THE MUTILATOR, BLOODY MOON and HOSPITAL MASSACRE.

FRIDAY 13TH PART 3 is also one of my faves. So corny in places but probably the most fun of all the F13 sequels imo

I was surprised to find out that this wasn't banned here as the old censor board banned many films like this.

They banned The Toolbox Murders though  :buggedout:

the first time I saw PIECES was on a 'Vipco' release, which was almost certainly censored... it probably wasn't issued uncut here till more recently

I now have the Arrow uncut release which is very good (I think it's Arrow)

I'm sure half the time they probably just looked at the titles alone and went "yeah that sounds like it'll corrupt everyone, chuck that on the banned list... next!"

  :teddyr:

That is exactly what they did with the notoriously pornographic book Black Beauty. I wish I was joking but I'm not.  :buggedout:

Probably the only movies I hear or know of those you mentioned, are 'Tenebrae', 'New York Ripper' and 'The Toolbox Murders'.
In any case I don't watched them, so, looks like I found what movies to watch in the next days.

Thanks :hot:

I have wanted all my life for some man to say that about me, ever since I read Caroline Lamb's quip about Byron. Sigh, so much stalking and middle of the night serial texting in vain.

But anyway I have actually seen part of this movie and the idea of using body parts that way was more dumb than disturbing. You could NOT have gotten the result that was wanted.

hope you enjoy one/some/all of em  :thumbup:

you never know it might still happen.... :smile:

Try kneecapping your mother-in-law. I estimate that will increase your chances of having someone say it but at least 423%.

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

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

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 :wink:

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

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

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

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.

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?  :teddyr:

^^ 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!

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".

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. 

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