Product Description

GRINDHOUSE RELEASING is proud to present the first official US DVD release of the sickest and most violent of all the early '80s slasher movies. A psychopathic killer stalks a Boston campus, brutally slaughtering nubile young college co-eds, collecting body parts from each victim to create the likeness of his mother who he savagely murdered with an axe when he was ten years old! PIECES is a wild, unrated gorefest, with enough splatter and sleaze to shock the most jaded horror fan.

WARNING Due to its SHOCKING and VIOLENT subject matter, no one under 17 should view this film.

SPECIAL FEATURES
-2 Disc Deluxe Edition
-Original uncensored theatrical version
-Spectacular new hi-definition digital anamorphic widescreen transfer
-Optional Spanish soundtrack with original score by Librado Pastor
-Special 5.1 audio option - the Vine Theater Hollywood Experience!
-Never before seen in-depth interviews with director Juan Piquer and genre superstar Paul L. Smith
-Gallery of stills and poster art
-Exhaustive filmographies
-Liner notes by legendary horror journalist Chas. Balun
-Plus other surprises!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15328 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-10-28
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 85 minutes

Eli Roth, director of CABIN FEVER and HOSTEL
"One of my top horror films of all time! Not only is this the ultimate chainsaw movie, it's the ultimate slasher film. It has everything you could possibly want, by the bucketful. Full on chainsaw violence, absurd amounts of nudity, and the greatest ending in horror history.
A masterpiece of early 80's sleaze. "

Bill Landis, SLEAZOID EXPRESS
"One of the most shocking exponents to hit the Deuce in the 1980s. PIECES went straight for the jugular.. one of the few movies at the time that silenced the most raucous grindhouse audiences."

Chas. Balun, THE GORE SCORE
"a PERFECT 10!"

Customer Reviews

FINALLY!!!! AN "OFFICIAL" DVD RELEASE OF THIS CLASSIC!
NO SPOILERS IN ANY WAY! (which would be easy to do by accident here)
I can't even begin to express the excitement I'm feeling, sitting here right now salivating over an Official DVD release of one of my favorite Genre pictures of all time!!! Juan Piquer Simon's PIECES!!!! If you understand as well as have any appreciation for the "Golden age of Gore" films (raw horror movies made between 1981 to 1986) or as what they refer to them now as "Grindhouse Films" this is a MUST OWN. The only print of this wonderfully little sleazy gorefest that has EVER been available was a BADLY TRANFERRED, washed-out and badly side-cropped fullscreen print (Depending on which label was on the VHS you could tell which "side" the film was centered towards in order to avoid showing the "decapitation in the grass" aftermath.BUT, I still get great joy out of even for all it flaws) that's been on DVD for all these years in public domain. This is time to rejoice!!!!
THE FILM: PIECES
Opening in a flashback with what (at the time, and still is) was one of the most taboo, brutalistic & disturbing axe murders ever shot, the movie quickly leaps to the "present" and follows a "typical" Italian (even though it's Spanish)Giallo style approach, with Sexy female college co-eds getting slaughtered on campus by a black gloved killer who likes to keep "trophies" from each girl (Chainsaws are the killer's fave instrument of destruction). Christopher George and wife Linda Day-George co-star as the stereotype, hardboiled gumshoe and the sexy, sweet undercover cop who starts teaching tennis on campus in order to investigate while remaining under the radar of the killer. (Hopefully.....)
The movie is FILLED with GREAT kills, beautiful college girls in various states of undress, hystericaly campy one moment and then sucker punches you the next, Dubbing that's so bad at times it actually ADDS to the fun experience, some lines that you can't help but laugh hysterically at ("BAAAAASTARD!!! BAAAAASTARD!!!"LOL) and quote for days, a few good red-herrings to try and keep you on your toes and a reveal and twist ending that most will have probably figured out by the halfway point, but it stays fun and keeps your attention very easily. There's also the wonderful, surprise at the ending that will have men cringing and women laughing for hours, but will have you thinking "Friday the 13th pt 1".
Not a big budget movie. But not a stinker in the cinematography dpt either. The camera is used effectively and the musical score is at times quite creepy & unnerving and REALLY creates some tense moements,reminding you at times of Fabio Frizzi or Goblin with it's 80's synth pulsing rhythmic themes. The scare stabs sound need to be noted as well. Ranking up there with the "ratchet noise" from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Don't expect 2008 big budget/studio quality here folks. Picture yourself at the filthiest, darkest, scariest movie theater in Manhattan at midnight, with sticky floors and all strangers around you. THAT was the environment you had to go to in order to view this slice of sleaze cinema. It's nasty. It's dark. It's an original taboo breaker. It's gore was not only realistic, but carried impact as well. It actually contains a well thought out "who's doing it?!" pace as the cops try to stop the killer from collecting another one of his "Pieces". A cool twist and completely fantastic double-shock ending, in the vein of the 1st two Friday the 13th film's cap it all off.
A great way to spend a saturday evening if double billed with "The Burning". Ahhhhh......My idea of a perfect night.

There's Only One Way OUTTA HERE......Piece By Piece!
Back in the 40s, a woman scolds her son for putting together a jigsaw puzzle depicting a naked woman. Understandably the boy then hacks his mother into...pieces. Forty years later the killer is on a college campus, and he's determined to finish that jigsaw puzzle, but he's upped the ante and using real chicks. Why go on a killing spree forty years later when the puzzle could have easily been solved before then? Hell if I know, this is a slasher film. Maybe he's just sick of getting screwed on those jigsaw puzzles with the missing pieces they always seems to be selling at Goodwill. Using a chainsaw and clothed like a killer from an Italian giallo thriller, he goes about the campus collecting whatever body part is needed for the next piece. If you ask me, a chainsaw really isn't the most efficient tool for a slasher movie killer to use since there seem to be more cons than pros attached to them if you really think about it. It does get the job done and eliminates all that tiresome hacking with an ax or machete. A detective played by Christopher George(who everyone should recall played the reporter in Fulci's City of the Living Dead) is on the case and has difficulty piecing together the mystery. He enlists the help of a womanizing student and a tennis pro(a nice looking piece herself) to sift through the handful of suspects. One of them is the goofy maintenance man played by Paul Smith(the big dude who played the evil warden in Midnight Express), but it's obvious he isn't the killer considering how hard they try to make him look like the killer. The Dean and the anatomy professor are a little fishy too. So who is it?? The hell if I'm gonna tell you.
Pieces is a film that has all those ingredients all of us lovers of trashy slasher cinema love. It's got the nude chicks, the faceless killer, the snazzy soundtrack(which sounds quite a bit like Goblin at times) and gore. This is slasher movie that has a bit more gore in it than most of the other films of the time. That's probably because this wasn't done by a major studio like the Friday the 13th films, and probably wasn't under the microscope of the MPAA. It is a slasher film, but it has that killer with the black gloves and floppy hat that makes it also feel like a giallo. It also seems to have inspiration from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(the chainsaw of course) and Blood Feast(the collecting of body parts from young women). I guess you could say that it's pieced together from other horror films. Grindhouse Releasing have put together another fine 2 disc package for this film, so it's worth the cash if you're thinking about buying it.
To anyone who hasn't seen it and is a fan of the 80s slasher genre, I'd highly recommend it.
Piece out.

Outstanding overlooked slasher pic!


Back in Boston of 1942, a 10 year old boy was caught by his mother working on a pornographic jigsaw puzzle. His mother is so p'oed that she wants to destroy it but the boy decides to dismember his mom to pieces with an Axe. 40 years later in 1982, a maniacal madman with a chainsaw and a knife is out on a campus at night murdering and hacking up women as he collects some of their body parts to make a jigsaw puzzle of flesh. The local police are on the verge of finding this homicidal killer especially who is behind these atrocities.

Entertaining, sleazy and gory as hell 1982 Spanish-Puerto Rican-American made horror slasher thriller from the legendary Piquer Simon who directed the MST3K fave "Pod People" and "Slugs". The film is a bloody riot from the jaw-droppingly disturbing prologue to the must be seen to be believe yet cringe inducing climax that will make any man squirm, the movie co-stars Christopher George ("City of the Living Dead", "Graduation Day" and "Wonder Woman from 1974"), Paul Smith (Bluto from the 1980 "Popeye" movie), Edmund Purdom, and Linday Day George. The film was originally called in Spain "Night of a Thousand Cries" while here in the U.S. and other countries it's called "Pieces" but released with a different 80's electronic music score in the U.S. version then the brilliant and hauntingly creepy version from the Spanish version with some laughable dubbing. The film does offer ridiculous dialog, hot girls, nudity, shocks, gore galore and one hell of a bizarre ending you won't ever forget as this is one of the most overlooked cult slasher pics ever as it did made a fortune when it came out in 1983 in drive-ins and theaters.

This 2-Disc deluxe edition DVD brings "Pieces" in a highly beautiful and stunning high-def transfer that remasters the film's picture and sound quality to a new level including being the uncut, uncensored version. There's also a version where you can watch the film in it's original Spanish language with subtitles and original score with the original spanish opening credits, an audio option where you listen to the film from film theater audiences who saw a midnight screening of the movie. Interviews with Piquer Simon and Paul Smith, trailer, easter eggs, biographies and filmographies and still galleries.

Also recommended: "Friday The 13th Series", "Hostel 1 & 2", "Cannibal Ferox", "Maniac (1980)", "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer", "The New York Ripper", "Urban Legend", "The Prowler", "Grindhouse", "The Hills Have Eyes (1977 and 2006)", "My Bloody Valentine", "Scream Trilogy", "The Nightmare on Elm Street Series", "Freddy Vs. Jason", "Sleepaway Camp Series", "Nightmare (1981 a.k.a. Nightmare in a Damaged Brain)", "The Shining", "The Toolbox Murders (1978 and 2004)", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Series plus 2003 remake and The Beginning", "The Toxic Avenger", "Stage Fright (1987)", "High Tension (a.k.a. Switchblade Romance)", "Inside (2007)", "Silent Night Deadly Night", "Re-Animator", "Saw Series", "Silent Hill", "Wrong Turn 1 & 2", "Cat in The Brain", "Terror Train", "Last House on The Left", "April Fool's Day", "Slaughter High", "Splatter University", "Final Destination Series", "Don't Go in The Basement" and "Driller Killer".