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Following last week's Mid-Week Movie Massacre: Top 70s Massacres Not From Texas With Chainsaws, we jump into the bloodied pool that is the 1980s. Based on a single image that I came across, while looking up last week's posters. The image (below) of a woman cut in half, slumped in the corner of a bathroom in a pool of her own blood. I've seen a lot of horror movies, but I couldn't place this one. Turns out I'd not seen the movie, a 1982 splatter-fest called Pieces. How this one had slipped under my radar is utterly baffling, but hey even the most hardcore cinephile can't see literally every movie out there can they?
Pieces is a US/Spanish exploitation slasher flick, (original title: Mil gritos tiene la noche translation: A Thousand Screams in the Night), which was apparently a "drive-in favourite", according to Wikipedia. A chainsaw weilding serial killer collects body parts from his victims to create a grisly human jigsaw puzzle. Even the clips of YouTube make this look like an all-out over-the-top awesome blood and guts roller coaster ride of gore. |
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I dug through YouTube to find the scene related to the image I had come across. And it has to be said that the close-up of cutting the girl on half was pretty realistic looking for such a low budget movie. It turns out that the film makers actually used a pig carcass, and cut through it with a real chainsaw. Nice and obvious touch that really worked. Right I'm off to see if I can get my hands on a copy of this film...
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I saw this image and just had to look up the movie.
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A full release version only made it to the UK few years ago. It had a "limited" release in 1984, and from what I can see was never offically released on video in the UK. If it was released on video in the 80s, it would have certainly made the BBFC Video Nasties list. All of which I have, and it isn't among the schlock, gore and awful nonsense that did make it on the list. In the United States, an uncut and uncensored director's cut wasn't released until 2008.
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