Pieces 1982 - Synopsis: Young co-eds are being dismembered by a mysterious murderer on a college campus. The killer is attempting to put together Upcoming Horror Movies & Latest Horror Movie News. Nov 28, 2010 - Cut to the present - well, 1982 - and some freako with a chainsaw is cutting up. The casual movie-watcher who sees this film would probably.

PIECES (1982) Dir. Juan Piquer Simon I did not see the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (TCM) until I was 14. It was, and still is, a genius work of savagery, a chainsaw dance of chaos.

But after living in sheer terror of the mere mention of the title, “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” for years before seeing it, what surprised me upon first viewing was that it actually showed little on-screen blood and gore. The filmmaking itself was violent, to be sure, shot and edited with such frantic energy and talent, the viewer was left with the impression that they saw more than they did. And certainly, the slaughterhouse atmosphere was served up by the bucketload. But by the time the end credits scrolled up my TV screen, TCM was not the chainsaw-murder limb-severing decapitation-fest I had anticipated. PIECES is the film my adolescent self thought TCM would be.

The setting is Boston, 1942. Our film opens with a young boy piecing together a puzzle depicting a nude woman. His mother catches him at play, and chastises him, worried that he’ll end up like his father. Furious with his mother for depriving him of his pretty puzzle, he hacks her up with an axe.

Then police come and take him away. Forty years later, a mysterious, gloved figure removes a small box from a drawer, opens it, and removes a bloodstained pair of women’s shoes, a gore-soaked blue dress, and a photo of the deceased mother with a red “X” on it. Shortly thereafter, the gloved figure removes a second box containing the naked lady puzzle from years before.

Knight rider 1 game full version online. Fingers gingerly begin to piece the puzzle back together again. Before long, the local university campus is plagued with a series of gruesome murders. Comely co-eds are being chainsawed limb from limb while they’re still alive, with piles of heads, legs, arms and torsos being left at murder scenes—piles each missing one body part per victim. Police investigate, sparking a giallo-like murder mystery.

Dismemberment continues amongst the student body, leading one detective to ask the question: “I wonder what the hell he’s doing with all the pieces that are missing?” Called by some industry journalists “the sickest and most violent of all the ’80s slasher movies,” PIECES is the distillation of everything the authorities of the Thatcher/Reagan-era thought wrong with horror films. Within the first two minutes, a young boy has split open his mother’s head with an axe, gore splattering all over his face with each hack. Within moments, his bedroom is repainted red.

Before the 10-minute mark, a female student lying on the grass is decapitated with a chainsaw, blood spraying from her neck in the afternoon sun. The film then slows down due to the police investigation scenes, but keeps the kills-a-comin’ with satisfying regularity. A swimmer is ensnared with a pole net and dragged to the pool’s edge by her head only to be chopped up (off-screen) and part of her carried away in a plastic garbage bag.