The music they dance to is of course completely anonymous and the sort of thing that no-one would have bought in the real world had it ever been released as a single, and the film’s actual music cues, credited to Librado Pastor on Spanish language prints and the Italian library music publisher CAM on English language ones, is a collection of cues that sound almost like – but are just different enough – any number of pieces by Goblin or Fabio Frizzi. It would explain the extraordinary sloppiness of the proceedings – the prologue is set in 1942 but the costumes are very contemporary and the jigsaw puzzle (laughably described as being “for kids of all ages”) features a photography from model and actress Barbi Benton that was clearly taken in the 1970s.Įlsewhere, just for once we don’t get the trip to the nightclub/disco that we’d expect from a late 70s/early 90s slasher, but we do get the next best thing – the heavy-breathing perving over a disco-themed exercise class. But Pieces is often so outrageously silly that you can’t help but suspects that he might have been having us on all the time. The killer entering an elevator with one of his victims while trying to conceal a chainsaw behind his back is perhaps the most notorious, but there are plenty of others – an insane, out-of-nowhere moment wherein Mary is attacked by a kung fu professor (played by Brucesploitation veteran Bruce Le) who promptly apologies and goes on his way the head-scratchingly stupid ending or the marvellous moment when an overwrought Mary, having failed to prevent a killing exclaims “while we out here fumbling with that music… the lousy bastard was in there killing her!” before letting fly with an ear-piercing shriek of “bastard! BASTARD!! BASTAAAARD!!!”ĭid Shadow and Simón really mean for us to be laughing at all this or were they being deadly serious and just ended up making a dreadful film? Simón‘s track record proves that wasn’t the greatest of film-makers – this was, after all, the man who had already given us Supersonic Man (1979) and Misterio en la isla de los monstruos/Mystery on Monster Island (1981) and was on his way to Los nuevos extraterrestres/Visitor (1983), Slugs, muerte viscosa/Slugs (1988), The Rift (1990) and La mansión de los Cthulhu/Cthulhu Mansion (1992) so he clearly wasn’t the most proficient of directors. Solid gold comedy moments like this abound throughout the film. It sets out its stall early with a scene straight from a silent comedy in which a skateboarder runs into a large sheet of glass being conveniently carried out of an alleyway by a pair of delivery men. The plot is largely a by-the-numbers slasher then but what has given Pieces its lasting cult appeal are some of the most ridiculous moments ever to disgrace a slasher film. More young women are killed before the police finally realise that the dean is the killer, Timmy now all grown up and trying to piece together a composite woman from pilfered body parts like the jigsaw puzzle that he’s still obsessed with. Smith) is too obvious a suspect to be taken seriously, but student Kendall ( Ian Sera) proves useful in their investigations. They persuade the dean (Edmund Purdom) to allow them to send a policewoman, Mary Riggs ( Linda Day George) undercover into the school to root out the killer. Lieutenant Bracken ( Christopher George) and Sergeant Holden ( Franck Braña) are on the case but they’re not the brightest of flatfoots – “the killer is someone who is either on or near the campus” announces Bracken in a display of deductive reasoning that would put Sherlock Holmes to shame.
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Forty years later, a series of murders plagues a university in Boston where students are being attacked by a black-clad killer wielding a chainsaw. In 1942, 10-year-old Timmy (Alejandro Hernández) is chastised by his mother ( May Heatherly) for playing with a jigsaw puzzle of a nude woman and he reacts by murdering her with an axe, dismembering her body with a hacksaw and hiding in a closet so that when the police turn up, they believe that he was a witness to the crime and not the perpetrator. Not you’ll worry too much as you’ll have other things on your mind, chief among which is the question “was it actually meant to be this funny?” This hilarious slasher from Spain’s Juan Piquer Simón boasted British and American co-producers (Dick Randall and Steve Minasian) which muddies the waters of the film’s parentage rather but claims that it was partly funded from Puerto Rico and that screenwriter John Shadow was another pseudonym for Joe D’Amato are both wrong. !!SPOILER WARNING: THIS REVIEW GIVES AWAY THE ENDING!! Original title: Mil gritos tiene la noche
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