Pieces

MOVIE #1,649 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 05.21.24 This is a fairly well-regarded PIECE of 80s horror schlock that seems to get lumped into the So Bad It’s Good category. There are definitely some fun moments, but I kept coming back to the same thought: I wish half as much thought was put into the scenes in between the killings as the deaths themselves. I simply couldn’t get into those aspects of the film (the bad dubbing, etc.). You go in not expecting much from the plot in these films, but not even trying to unpack the intricacies of the bad guy for one second took me out of it. Why is he a killer? Just his mom didn't let him make a dirty puzzle? That's it. He grew up to be a successful dean of students at a college! The killer can't be such an afterthought in movies like this. That's my 2¢. The “BASTARD!” scene was funny…

And the random appearance of a zombie squeezing the good guy's dick off at the very end gave me a chuckle as well…


Ultimately, I was too bored to recommend this one. Sorry, Pieces-Heads.

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Pieces (Spanish: Mil gritos tiene la noche, lit. 'The Night Has 1,000 Screams') is a 1982 Spanish-American slasher film directed by Juan Piquer Simón, written and produced by Dick Randall, and starring Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Frank Braña, Edmund Purdom, Paul L. Smith, Ian Sera, and Jack Taylor. It was released on August 23, 1982.