The child, angry at having his puzzle taken away, returns with an axe and hacks his mother to bits. The film begins in the 1940s with a small child being scolded by his domineering mother who catches him putting together a pornographic jigsaw puzzle. The special effects set-pieces, the life’s blood, if you will, of any great slasher film, were so over-the-top for the time period that Pieces became a heralded masterpiece among the Fangoria-subscription crowd. What it lacked in pretty much every single aspect of filmcraft, it more than made up for in buckets of blood and grue. As a young gorehound, it quickly became one of my favorite movies in the splatter genre. While I missed that original theatrical run, I did get to see Pieces in 1985 on the original Vestron Video VHS release of the film. It was, as advertised, exactly what they thought it was. There was no question in 1982 when people saw that poster hanging in a theater lobby or saw the trailer as to what they were getting. “You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre,” is the infamous tagline from its iconic poster art, but I think the preferred, more succinct Pieces tagline comes below the poster’s fold: “It’s exactly what you think it is.”
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