PIECES 1982 CHAINSAQ MOVIE

Well when the young college student breaks into the office before the police the killer jumps out and there's s brief fight before the police arrive and shoots the killer right in the head. As the police race to help her, the dean has his eyes on her feet since the last pair he got didn't fit his mother's shoes (killer problems) so he drugs her coffee not once but twice leaving her paralyzed, unable to move but totally aware of what's happening. That same night the undercover police woman goes to the dean's very fancy office/apartment to talk with him about one of the suspects. The school STILL remains open and it's discovered that the dean of the college is in fact our killer after the police dig up the truth about his mother's murder all those years ago. Here the police decide to let the local college stud to team up with the undercover cop since he knows pretty much everyone on campus. Here the college is scrambling to not let any of this leak to the press despite a nosey woman reporter constantly asking questions. Still, this second kill makes the local police nervous so they hire an undercover cop who poses as the new female tennis instructor.

PIECES 1982 CHAINSAQ MOVIE

The movie is FULL of laughable moments such as the body being covered up with a clear plastic sheet, or how legit everyone is touching evidence after the murder. There are of course plenty of suspects, such as the boy she was supposed to meet, a professor, and the actual groundskeeper. Well instead the killer follows her (again another SUPER scary scene of the killer in the shadows getting his chainsaw ready to kill her.) Here he cuts off her torso.

Well the police get involved and a few days later a young beautiful co-ed goes to the school pool in the middle of the night for a late night swim to meet up with the local college stud. The killer legit is standing all covered up and speaks to the victim before talking to her in a public place in the MIDDLE OF THE DAY! In fact just last night I rematched it with a friend of mine and I couldn't believe how scary this scene actually is. This is what makes this slasher different. The groundskeeper remarks he'll be done shortly and seconds later the blade comes out of nowhere cutting her head off in broad daylight.

She asks if he's going to be long, if so she'll move. Looking over she sees a groundskeeper with his hood up and goggles trimming branches. The next scene shows the same girl a few days later laying out in the park trying to study when she hears the noise of a chainsaw. This causes a mental block to break down, and begins to massacre. The killer witnesses this and instantly remembers shortly before he murdered his mother how in a fit of range she smashed the mirror in his bedroom.

The film shows forty years later in Boston (parts were filmed in Boston as well as Spain) where a young lively girl is skateboarding and accidentally smashes into a large mirror two movers are attempting to bring across the street.

This killer had a twisted motivation and as cheesy as the film seems, actually was written quite well. In fact sources say if one certain version with subtitles you can hear the killer as he takes out the dress asking out loud why his mother had to leave him? This is what makes Pieces stand apart from so many slashers that happened in the early to mid 1980's. Several movies showed dark relationships with the killers and their mother's, This one was perfect. It almost seems like a twisted version of Psycho. Piece together the body parts of all of the victims and make his mother. In all manners of speaking what he's attempting to do again is solve one big puzzle. The best of it is the symbolism of the playboy puzzle game that his mother originally caught him playing with all those years ago. One of my favorite shots is him opening up the box which holds his mother's bloody dress and shoes he's kept all these years. In fact in just the first few minutes of the film we witness a young boy hacking his mother to death with an axe and then saw blade! The film sets up showing how twisted the killer's mind is.

Pieces 1982 chainsaq