 Welcome to another episode of Frightfully Forgotten Whore Movies, but before we get started, what the hell are you wearing? It's like in the movies. What the killer wears? Suit yourself. What are we drinking today? Les Marchand's East India Porter. Mmm. Today, we're gonna bring to you 1982's Pieces. It is directed by Juan Piqueir Simon. It is written by Dick Randall, and he also did a real piece of work called Lady Frankenstein. Christopher George is in this, and he's in City of the Living Dead, the Fulcine movie. The guy who plays Bluto in Popeye. Jack Taylor is in this, and he was in the Ninth Gate. One of the main female leads in this is Linda Day George. So Pieces starts off in 1942. There's this child building a puzzle in his room. A naked woman, mom comes in and flips out on the poor kid. Starts smacking the shit out of him. She's all smashing the room all up, just like your father. Getting the puzzle together to throw it out. In the meantime, the kid has come back with some big fucking axe and just starts chopping the mother to pieces and then starts sawing her to pieces. The cops have come, open up the closet door and see the kid in there, and the kid is kind of pretending to be traumatized like he was just in there the whole time. It's 40 years later, and we're on a campus, like a university campus. The girl kind of studying on the grounds, you know, in the courtyard in the grass, and here's some guy starting a chainsaw. Are you going to be long doing that? It's kind of loud. Oh, sorry, ma'am. You're going to see a silhouette of this thing coming closer, and it just takes your head right the fuck up. Cops, of course, are called in about this murder, and we started getting introduced to the characters as the cops start interviewing them. So there's the Dean, Professor Brown, covers like biology. So he knows about the body parts, right? The groundskeeper, who actually uses the chainsaw on a regular basis. He's a suspect. In the meantime, we see this gloved hand putting together that same puzzle we saw in the beginning of the movie. Boy and a girl in the library, they're talking and, I want to do it underwater, leave me in the pool. And she's taking a nice swim, and you see these shitty loafers, these shitty black loafers. He drags her out of the pool, and it takes his chainsaw, just sitting in the pool area. And it starts cutting her to pieces. Now the groundskeeper, he's roaming around, sees all these pieces, you know, pieces. He sees all the body parts, and he still doesn't really, all he does is he makes this face, right? He's more curious than anything. Cops come in and his blue guy, he starts like throwing the fucking cops around, like rag dolls, and boards are being broken over his back. From here, the investigation is kind of going nowhere. They don't even arrest or question the groundskeeper, who's around at both murders with a chainsaw. They have to put one of their cops under cover. They put her under cover as like a tennis coach. Of all the things, choose. Mary Riggs is her name. While she's on campus, too, they show her, she's just kind of walking at night, which is a stupid thing to do because there's all these murders going on. But all of a sudden, some guy pops out of nowhere and starts doing all this karate and everything at her, like, oh, yeah! She kicks him in the nuts and he goes down. Kendall comes over to her rescue. Oh, I don't know what happened. All of a sudden, I just hit the ground. Must have been some bad chop suey. See ya, he's a wanker. Wait, what the hell? That pair of the guy who plays that guy played Bruce Lee with either one E or an I several times. One of the girls from the aerobics class. Bro, we're in these cowboy boots. Like, what the hell is this fucking heel? Those 80s half boots. There's a figure watching her. She gets to the elevator and she's waiting there and somebody comes up behind her. Oh, it's you. The door's open and she goes in and you see when he goes in, you see the chainsaw behind his back. Hiding the whole huge chainsaw. Oh, she never noticed that, I don't know. Y'all cuts into her and you see all his blood squirting. Cuts her arm right off. So then we see more of the puzzle getting filled out, right, at this point. The cops are still fucking useless and so useless that now they have to get one of the kids on campus into their team and make him like a detective. While Kendall's part of the team here, they start uncovering stuff in the archives about the faculty. In the meantime, Mary Riggs has herself a lead. She goes up to this person's apartment. She gets drugged. Paralyzed, but she's aware. And that's where we're going to end the story. Pieces is a movie that we've been actually kicking around wanting to do for a long time. And I always remember when I first watched this movie with you, it was my grandparents basement. We rented it on VHS. I didn't appreciate it as much then as I do now, but I do vividly remember two things. Kim's struggling to get those pieces and he's all having a hard time. He's all frustrated to get into that puzzle. In that elevator scene when he fucking cuts off her arm and the chainsaw isn't even on. It's all static. And you see blood coming from a different direction. But upon reviewing a couple of times since then, this movie is like tons of fun. Funnest thing is the kills are really good. They cut to the chase, man. Like it starts off with this woman being cut to pieces by her son. 40 years later. Right off the bat. Like there's no dicking around here. Like you get to the good stuff right away. It's paced very well that you're never bored, right? And so there's a good amount of time in between each kill. And it doesn't get bogged down in too much dialogue and too much crap, right? Kill. A bit of story. Another kill. A bit of story. It's like a little bit of an investigation. Then another kill, you know. It's very gory. Like a lot of blood and the effects are really good. A couple of kills we didn't talk about. Like there's a really cool water bed death. Stabbing her on the water bed. Water's coming out and she's being mixed with the blood. You see the blood rushing out and everything. Chases the girl down into another like little washroom. In his shitty loafers. In his shitty loafers. And he cuts through the door and then he cuts her in half. Right in half. Yeah and they show like their skin being all cut up. Like ooh that's really good. It looks good. Yeah it doesn't look cheesy or anything. Then when you see him putting all the pieces in his freezer. The atmosphere is really good in this movie. It's got that jello style. Vivid lighting. Good shadows. Yeah it has a little bit of an Argento kind of feel too right. And the music kind of helps with that a little bit as well. Yeah the music's really good in this. Yeah it's very like raw feeling. And sort of it builds a lot of tension where it needs to. It's very 70s. But it works very well. It's one of those soundtracks where like yeah I if I was flipping through vinyl somewhere and I saw it. Like I'd pick it up in a heartbeat right. The dialogue in this movie is a tad cheesy right. I mean it's not like you're they're going to be winning any awards for writing for this movie. You killed again. You bastard. Bastard. Little over the top you think. Once I can see. Being mad enough where you yell bastard once. Maybe twice. I could see that. Maybe twice. Three times. She really gives her two. Nothing better than smoking pot and fucking on a water bed. The use of misdirection in this movie too is pretty cool. Because it is a who done it. Yeah exactly yeah so like the groundskeeper is always hanging around he's got the chainsaw. Is it him or is it maybe one of the kids that's roaming around doing this right. You don't know. Or one of the teachers. Yeah exactly so it's kind of neat the way they do that. No colombo episode. Another really cool thing about this movie it actually has like a double climax. You think the movie's over and you're wrapping it up and something else happens and something else happens it's really cool. Yeah it's all around just a fun slasher. A slasher that uses a chainsaw a lot like Leatherface but it doesn't seem like a Texas chainsaw rip-off. Completely different. It's different you know it's on its own. A good fun movie to put on and have a good laugh. Yeah and you don't have to really dissect it too much and pay a whole lot of attention right. You just enjoy the kills and enjoy the boobs. There's enough of this kind of like underlying subplot with the child who killed his mother. There's enough there to kind of make it to have a little bit of substance. Yeah. Besides just the death and tits. It's not so mindless. Yeah if you like Italian slashers and American slashers it's a good mail between the two you know. Yeah it's it's definitely it's creepy where it needs to be. Yeah. And it's fun and sort of mindless where it needs to be as well. Exactly. Check out 1982's Pieces. And until next time keep drinking. BASH TIME!