Review of Pieces (1982) by Brad S — 03 Jun 2007

First of all, this movie is terrible. So, why the 4 stars you ask? It's hilariously bad and entertaining as hell for horror buffs.

Take the opener for example: A mother walks in on her 10 year old son putting together a puzzle of a naked woman, so she yells at him, tells him his puzzle and various other porn will be destroyed, so he comes back into the room and chops her to bits with an axe. Hooray. Then, years later, for no logical reason, he comes back as an adult and is running around a college chopping up the most attractive women on campus with a chainsaw, then puts his puzzle back together again in the meantime. (He's putting together the pieces of a woman with various body parts, get it? GET IT? HUH? Do Ya?).

You've got to love the movie when the scene comes up where a girl sees the "mysterious figure" standing next to her waiting for an elevator, thinking nothing of it, then waits for him to get into the elevator with his chainsaw(!) AND for the door to close AND for him to manually lock the door without her permission in order to ask him (right before she gets killed) what the hell he's doing (in the middle of a rainy night in the BASEMENT of a college WITH a chainsaw).