Pieces
Pieces is a 1982 film from Spain, directed by Juan Piquer Simón, running 90 minutes. reelscum files it under giallo and slasher.
- Year
- 1982 · 1980s films
- Country
- Spain
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Director
- Juan Piquer Simón
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (39/100)
Defined in the glossary: Giallo, Slasher
Spanish, incoherent, and gleefully stupid. 'Bastard! Bastard!'
Spanish, incoherent and gleefully deranged. A chainsaw killer assembles a human jigsaw from murdered coeds on a Boston campus, and the film lurches between wildly-dubbed melodrama, gratuitous gore and non-sequiturs (the infamous out-of-nowhere kung fu attack) with no regard for sense. Bastard, bastard.
It is inept and completely committed, and the sheer randomness has made it a midnight favourite. The final shot is a jaw-dropper that comes from nowhere and explains nothing.
A masterpiece of the so-wrong-it-works school. Watch it with a crowd.
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