Even the ending is unrelenting, delivering not one, or two, but THREE false jolts.Īs with much of the Mediterranean macabre geared toward Western audiences, Christopher George gives his Cheshire Cat capped grin a good workout as Bracken.
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While most of the killings occur off camera, their nasty results get full view visits. Once we move to modern times, Lucio Fulci’s full bore gore conceit comes into play. The opening is an obvious homage to Dario Argento’s classic Profundo Rosso, down to the deadly dynamic between parent and child. Director Juan Piquer Simón digs deep into his fellow Europeans bag of terror tricks and comes up trumps more times than not. It is really nothing more than your standard slasher effort with a chainsaw doing all the slice and dice (well, there are a couple of knife kills thrown in for good massacre measure). Pieces is the kind of fright film that sneaks up on you.
Apparently, the murdered is making some kind of trophy out of the ‘pieces’ of his victims…and he’s almost done. As the body count rises, Bracken grows desperate. Smith, with Lawrence Tierney’s voice) and the slightly fey Professor Brown (Jack Taylor). This will allow her greater access to suspects like groundskeeper Willard (Paul L.
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Secondly, seasoned cop and star tennis pro Mary Riggs (Lynda Day) will go undercover as one of the faculty. This BMOC knows all the angles – and the ladies. First, he will elicit the help of student Kendall James ( Pod People‘s Ian Sera) to snoop among the student body. Bracken (a nicely cheesy Christopher George) hopes to crack the case with a two fold approach. Using a chainsaw to carve up the bodies, the police are baffled by the murders.ĭetective Lt. On a small college campus, young girls are being viciously vivisected by an unseen killer. After a particularly gruesome showdown, we flash forward forty years. We are introduced to a young boy, tormented mercilessly by his blousy whore of a mother.
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The question remains, however, does the movie match the marketing – or is this just another case of carefully chosen words speaking a heckuva lot louder than the action on the screen. Thanks to VHS and the thriving home video market, the sleazoid shocker became an instant cult classic. Back in 1982, distributors desperate to continue the coattail ride started with Halloween and Friday the 13th took the Spanish splatter film Mil gritos tiene la noche (“The Night Has a Thousand Cries”, roughly), renamed it, and added the intriguing tagline “You Don’t Have To Go To Texas For A Chainsaw Massacre!” With a final carnival barker punchline – “It’s exactly what you think it is.” – the results were unleashed on an unwitting world. Others actually deliver the goods the studio staged ballyhoo promises. Some horror movies can live solely on their carefully crafted hype.