This movie is a camp masterpiece, and has set the bar high as my new standard for horror comedy. Shot largely in Spain and set in Boston, Pieces will leave you breathless, but from laughter, not fear. The film’s other tagline, “It’s exactly what you think it is,” is also accurate– Pieces is a solidly hilarious and gratuitously gory flick about a campus killer who murders women with a chainsaw, full of ridiculous and unrealistic dialogue that would give a more modern postmodern horror spoof a run for its money. “You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre” declares one of the taglines for 1982’s exploitation horror film Pieces, although you would have had to be in Austin this week to see the screening of the 35mm master print, cobbled together by Grindhouse Releasing from the extant copies of the film (and from which their remastered 2008 DVD was produced).
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