jellopuke If you want copious gore, terrible dubbing/acting, non-sensical scenes, and a killer who uses a chainsaw, then this is going to be right up your alley. There are some great effects and the overall plot of a killer making a human jigsaw puzzle is disturbing enough that you can overlook all of the hilarious weirdness. Well worth watching if you like trash cinema and/or slasher movies. And what the heck was with the kung fu guy that appears for NO reason?!?!?!?

jaxenross Wow. This has to be one of the WORST (if not severely) horror movies I've probably ever seen; there's more crud aside from this. I know everyone likes this movie, but not for me. Terrible voice acting, cinematography, gaffes and the most godawful ending in horror history - that back then when I first came to this film and watched that horrific scene - it utterly scarred me for life. After all, it's been five years since that unexpected ending had scarred me; today it's futile and I'm used to it. Especially with this movie.The only acclaims for this movie are the special effects and definitely the Spanish version of this movie - the dialogue is not as shoddy as the American one, seems to be darker in tone and the music is more upbeat. It took me this far and nearly the end of my high school career to come to this point and watch the whole film again in all it's glory. Watching it today doesn't have any effect on me like it used to - it's just downright fruitless. The only tweak I'd like to see today is have this film re-cut - not for just some of the violence, but to cut down on the inconsistencies, dialogue and certain, grueling scenes - for an R-rating. Three to four minutes could be possible. Until then, to pieces - or hell - with this!

Predrag Now this movie came out in the aftermath of the early 80's "slasher" explosion when practically every film of that genre wanted to be a Halloween or Friday The 13th imitation. Some fools might even want to compare it to Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the mere obvious fact that it features a chainsaw as a murder weapon. However, this film is actually much more reminiscent of the old gore films of Hershel Gordon Lewis, inparticularly Blood Feast, and not so much in it's depicted gore (which is much better done in this film) but rather in it's campily sick & tasteless script. What really made "Pieces" a classic was its "unintentional humor." For example, the lady police officer is attacked assaulted by a Kung Fu master, then the guy just stiffens up and drops unconscious to the ground... But when Kendall, the "hero," arrives, it's all well; it's his kung fu professor, after all. Everybody is laughing and smiling as he says..." must have been bad chop suey!" And can somebody please explain to me... What was up with the skateboarding girl? How did that fit into the movie? Did I miss something? Also worth noting is a certain percievable crude humor and sexual innuendo in the killing scenes. How the trenchcoated killer suddenly whips out his wwwwhhhhhiiiirrrring chainsaw, which resembles a huge phallus, and the female victim recoiling, grimacing and shrieking in reaction. And something to be said about the campiness of this film,.. it actually has the effect of rendering the horrifying scenes that much more shocking and powerful when they occur!.. . to almost dissarm one, and I have no doubt that was something calculated on the part of the films makers. It seems to be a kind of intentional deceptive campiness under which a very sly and elusive creative brilliance is at work and designed to put one off their guard so to speak. But there's definitely no competition for the most bizarre ending of any slasher flick.Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

tenebrae70 A strange slasher film with some very poor acting. Paul L. Smith wins the honours for worse acting in this daft gore flick but he is also the most entertaining as the very unhelpful gardener whose chainsaw goes on walkabout (why he never feels the need to lock it up to keep it away from the deranged killer is beyond me, but then again there are many points like this in this film). For such a big campus we have very few suspects, three in total (which includes the gardener who is ruled out pretty early) which get wittled down even quicker within the first 30 minutes leaving the viewer with only one glaringly obvious suspect, but never mind... How the murder gets around the campus with this chainsaw hidden is beyond me but there are some pretty neat hacking and dismemberment to watch and the piles of limbs left behind is quite comical. Speaking of which, we are subjected to a hilarious scene when undercover tennis playing police woman finds another victim in the changing rooms (this victim is sawn in half and the legs taken. She screams out "Bastard!" numerous times whilst clenching her fists, and then we have a random martial arts instructor kicking out at her in another scene for absolutely no reason..! There is a God-awful and stupid plot twist 20 seconds at the end of the film that makes no sense whatsoever and almost destroys what is a daft but fun addition to the slasher cycle. I give it 6 out of 10 (an extra point for the gore and a rather good axe job at the beginning of the film).