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YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO TEXAS FOR A CHAINSAW MASSACRE!
Grindhouse Releasing is proud to present the sickest and most violent of all the early '80s slasher movies. A psychopathic killer stalks a Boston campus, brutally slaughtering nubile young college co-eds, collecting body parts from each victim to create the likeness of his mother who he savagely murdered with an axe when he was ten years old! PIECES is a wild, unrated gorefest, with enough splatter and sleaze to shock the most jaded horror fan.
Special Features:
- TWO complete versions of this shocking gore classic
- PIECES (83 minutes) - the original, unrated U.S. theatrical version, presented in English
- MIL GRITOS TIENE LA NOCHE (86 minutes) - the original uncensored director's cut, presented in Spanish with original score by Librado Pastor
- Spectacular new 4K transfers - scanned from the original camera negative
- Brand new audio commentary by star Jack Taylor
- Special 5.1 audio option - the Vine Theater Experience!
- In-depth interviews with director Juan Piquer Simón and genre superstar Paul L. Smith
- 42nd STREET MEMORIES - all-new feature-length documentary containing interviews with Sam Sherman, Bill Lustig, Larry Cohen, Frank Henenlotter, Buddy Giovinazzo, Jeff Lieberman, John Skipp, Lynn Lowry, Terry Levene, and many other exploitation icons
- Extensive gallery of stills and poster art
- Exhaustive filmographies
- Liner notes by legendary horror journalist Chas. Balun and Rick Sullivan
- BONUS CD - original soundtrack - newly remastered from the original studio tapes
- Beautiful embossed slipcover
- AND OTHER SURPRISES!
Review
"One of my top horror films of all time! Not only is this the ultimate chainsaw movie, it's the ultimate slasher film. It has everything you could possibly want, by the bucketful. Full on chainsaw violence, absurd amounts of nudity, and the greatest ending in horror history. A masterpiece of early '80s sleaze."
- Eli Roth, director of HOSTEL and THE GREEN INFERNO
"A barrage of great, graphic entrail-spewed slaughter executed in super-gross European gore technician style."
- Rick Sullivan, GORE GAZETTE
"One of the most shocking exponents to hit the Deuce in the 1980s. PIECES went straight for the jugular... one of the few movies at the time that silenced the most raucous grindhouse audiences."
- Bill Landis, SLEAZOID EXPRESS
"a PERFECT 10!"
- Chas. Balun, THE GORE SCORE
"The best chain-saw flick since the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Head roll before the titles roll. Splatter City.
FOUR STARS!"
- Joe Bob Briggs
"PIECES is one scary flick that changed 42nd Street forever. Nothing will ever top PIECES."
- Rick Sullivan, GORE GAZETTE
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 10.72 ounces
- Media Format : Subtitled, NTSC, Widescreen, Surround Sound
- Run time : 1 hour and 23 minutes
- Release date : March 1, 2016
- Actors : Christopher George
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Grindhouse Releasing
- ASIN : B018SVHLZO
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 3
- Best Sellers Rank: #24,063 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #638 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #1,161 in Horror (Movies & TV)
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The extras include the feature length documentary 42nd Street Memories, an excellent film worth the price of admission alone. Lots of archival footage and interviews with such luminaries as: Lynn Lowry , Buddy Giovinazzo (Combat Shock), Lloyd Kaufman, Frank Henenlotter (Basket Case), Samuel M. Sherman, Jim Markovic, Veronica Hart, Matt Cimber, Richard W. Haines, Joe Dante, Tom Holland , William Lustig , Larry Cohen, Debbie Rochon, John Skipp, Joe Kane, Roy Frumkes, Meir Zarchi, Jeff Lieberman, Terry Levene (Aquarius Releasing), Greydon Clark, Anthony Timpone, and...
... "42nd Street Pete" - whoever he is - he seemingly appeared on the scene in the late 90s, claiming to be some "old-school" veteran of The Deuce.
Speaking of Old- school denzions of The Deuce: the booklet includes a reproduction (and a revisiting) of the original review in Rick Sullivan's zine, the wildly influential Gore Gazette. A great time capsule - also poignant, as "The Reverend" Rick Sullivan was just getting back into the sleaze scene, as an elder statesman of sorts, after a looong hiatus. His untimely death was a heartbreaker. He is missed.
The film:
Easily the best Slasher not to get a sequel - or, God help us a remake.
Taking a structural cue from the Italian gialli of the ‘60s and ‘70s, Pieces begins with a young boy putting together a jigsaw of a naked woman in the privacy of his bedroom when his mother walks in and admonishes him for being “just like his father”. The boy returns the compliment by splitting his mother’s head open with an axe and then proceeding to work away on the rest of her limbs, but when the police show up he hides in the cupboard and pleads innocence.
Fast forward 40 years and a college campus is the scene of several grisly murders where the female victims’ limbs have been severed with a chainsaw. The police, led by dogged detective Lieutenant Bracken (Christopher George – City of the Living Dead/The Exterminator), investigate but the list of possible suspects is fairly long so, with no break in the case, they plant a female colleague as a new teacher to lure the killer out before he can create the next piece of his human puzzle.
Which is a plot worthy of a classic Lenzi or Martino giallo but what Pieces has that those movies doesn’t is a total lack of self-control and a willingness to throw everything into the mix to see what happens, resulting in a finished movie that is gorier than its mainstream US contemporaries, more nutty than anything else coming out of Europe and, bizarrely, one of the most entertaining low-budget horror movies to come out of the "slasher" era, albeit entertaining for possibly all the wrong reasons.
Broken down into its individual parts, Pieces is actually a lot stronger than a lot of ‘80s slashers; the acting from the main cast is pretty good, with Christopher George and his real-life wife Lynda Day George proving to be very solid leads and definitely the best performers in the film. Veteran actor Jack Taylor (The Ninth Gate/Conan the Barbarian and Eurosleaze icon) appears as Professor Brown, a possible suspect, and is a little underused but his presence is felt throughout, as is Edmund Purdom (Absurd) as the Dean of the college, with both actors being memorable whilst having to deliver some bizarre dialogue. But that is the main cast and when none of those characters are on the screen then the film starts to edge towards total madness as the supporting actors are pretty much all terrible (which works in this context), something that isn’t helped by some pedestrian dubbing. However, terrible can be fun if done with a sense of sheer abandonment and Pieces does deliver with some hilariously bad appearances by Bruce Le, for no other reason than he was working with producer Dick Randall (who goes way back - the mondo 'doc' The Wild World of Jayne Mansfield, for example) on another film at the time, who gets to utter a decidedly un-PC line about “Bad chop suey”, and there is also Paul Smith (the sadistic guard from Midnight Expresss) as college maintenance man Willard, another suspect and played by Smith as if he were auditioning for the role of Bluto in a Popeye movie as the big bear of a man snarls and leers with one eye opened wider than the other for all of his scenes. (Smith played Bluto in Robert Altman's Popeye two earlier.)
But it is with the amount of gratuitous blood and T&A that Pieces sells itself on and there are topless women and flying limbs everywhere to keep the most hardened of gorehounds satiated. Thanks to the wonder of low-budget FX circa1982 that add to the films exploitation charm, and even for a slasher movie with a meager $300,000 budget they still have the desired effect and are presented a lot better than some of the gags from higher budget movies. One kill in particular has a terrified and topless young woman fighting for her life in the college showers as the crazed killer comes at her with the revving chainsaw, and although the kill itself isn't the showpiece as a few others, the aftermath is shown in a disgusting but well done quick shot that probably ate up more than a bit of the budget but is all the more memorable for it. It's that kind of movie.
Extras and specs:
Eurosleaze Superstar, the prolific Jack Taylor (who played Prof. Brown) is on hand for an audio commentary that goes wildly off course to its own benefit. Taylor doesn’t have a ton to say about his role in the film, though he does provide many anecdotes from his time on set, leaving him to fill in the gaps with life stories, film memories of a life lived. This cat (based in Spain and Italy) worked with everybody.
“Music Re-Score by Umberto” (music only) plays the film with synth recording artist Umberto’s album “Night Has a Thousand Screams” taking over the audio track. I’m a newbie fan of Umberto, and this is (I'm told) one of his better albums.
The Eli Roth presented “Vine Theater Experience” plays the film with the audience audio as heard during a screening of the film that took place at the Vine Theater on August 23rd, 2002. The track is echo-y and poorly mixed, as it should be. A throwback to bootleg VHS tapes in which the movie was filmed with a camcorder (I wish I still owned my collection - the last bootleg of this sort was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - shot in a NYC theater to a bewildered 'urban' audience. Paid $5 for it in midtown from an industrious Asian. I digress...) Want to hear Pieces with a raucous crowd? Here 'tis.
The film’s theatrical trailer and a handful of still galleries are also included.
A section labeled “Interviews” contains some lengthy, worthwhile pieces:
– “Steve Minasian (Producer)” – This is an audio-only clip with the producer discussing how the filmmakers got screwed out of some big money on the picture.
– “Paul Smith – The Reddest Herring” The legendary antagonist was interviewed for nearly an hour in Israel circa 2007, recounting his career that includes his work on Pieces. Happily retired and a has a true gift of the gab.
– “Juan Piquer – Pieces of Juan” This also runs for almost an hour and covers the director’s career and legacy, with much talk devoted to Pieces.
- “Bios and Filmographies” features text-only information on Juan Piquer, Dick Randall, Steve Minasian, Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Edmund Purdom and Paul Smith.
42nd Street Memories (HD) is a documentary that runs for 1 hour and 21 minutes. I went on and on about it at the top of my review. That said, it's available as a "stand alone" DVD and available on streaming services. A terrific stand alone film.
A couple dozen “Grindhouse Releasing” promotional trailers are included, covering every title they have released thus far. Seeing as the co-owner/ founder (along with the late Sage Stallone) of GR went on to win a best editing Oscar for The Hurt Locker, expect wildly entertaining trailers. (I only wish they get the deluxe bluray treatment soon.)
Includes a CD of the film’s soundtrack, featuring 16 tracks remastered from the original tapes, housed inside a perfectly tasteless (natch) cardboard sleeve.
Blu-ray also contains a replica of the puzzle seen during the opening, complete with fake bloodstains! Oof!
The 4k scan looks fantastic. The audio is flawless. I'd recommend the English dub. The Spanish language track detracts from the grindhouse aesthetic. You can choose between any number of dub/subs/cuts combos. The subtitles extremely well done - every word uttered is on-screen.
Needless to say, a must own!
It all begins in Boston in 1942 where some 10 year old boy named Timmy is fitting together a pornographic puzzle in his room. No sooner does his hard-a** mother barge in and threaten to burn everything pornographic that her son has. Unable to handle being scolded and having his mags and such destroyed the boy grabs an axe and murders his mother in cold blood. The police soon arrive to try and sort out what happened as someone close to the boy tells the cops of his aunt being the person to send Timmy to as the boy seems to be upset by his mothers death. 40 years pass and some darkly clad mystery person is rummaging through boxes containing Timmy's mother's blood covered clothes, a picture of Timmy's mother, and that nude jigsaw puzzle with some of his mother's blood on the puzzle pieces as the mystery person fits it together. Soon a college campus is starting to lose female students to some mysterious killer. As the police officers Lt. Bracken and his partner Sgt. Holden find themselves baffled they seek the help of a male student named Kendall and a beautiful undercover cop/ex-tennis player named Mary Riggs to be their insider people so as to help the cops trap the killer. The possible suspects are the Dean, creepy and eerie Professor Brown, and Willard the groundskeeper. They all have things about their personalities and mysterious behaviors that make them seem as if any one of them could be the killer.
Some Facts About The Film: It comes from Italy. It was directed by Juan Piquer Simon, produced by Stephen Minasia, Edward L. Montoro, and by Dick Randall(of whom also co-wrote it), the other writer of the film is John W. Shadow. The original title is Mil gritos tiene la noche translated to English that means A Thousand Screams in the Night or The Night Has 1000 Screams. Musical score was done by Librado Pastor. Cinematography was done by Juan Marine`. It was distributed by Artists Releasing Corporation Film Ventures International. Its theatrical releases were August 23, 1982 in Spain, September 23, 1983 in the U.S., and December 7, 1983 in France. It made 2,032,311 in the domestic box office. It stars Christopher George(Graduation Day), Paul L. Smith[Popeye, Crimewave, Maverick(1994)], and Edmund Purdom(Don't Open Till' Christmas).
This movie is just brilliant. The pacing is comfortable in terms of its not moving extremely fast but not so slow that one would have a chance to get bored with it. The musical score by LIbrado Pastor aka CAM is effectively creepy, eerie, has an atmospheric feel to it, doesn't overtake what's going on in its simplicity, and can go from calm and eerie tones to quite intense whenever the scene calls for it. For sure the acting is bad but the performances by the major characters are indeed memorable. The dubbed voices actually fit the actors that they're given to. Many times the dubbed voices that are used for foreign movies is absurd and doesn't fit the actors at all so this is unique. The gore is brilliant and realistic looking to have no trouble suspending disbelief. Not Tom Savini gore but still holding its own and is beautifully done. The intensity of the kills doesn't hurt either. The cinematography and beautiful and masterfully shot. The feeling of isolation with the rooms in the school and the dark and foreboding look to the killers rooms are effectively creepy. The whole murder mystery element of this movie works as their is enough mysterious and in some cases odd and suspicious behavior to the characters that the movie keeps you guessing as to who the killer is. The nudity is great also. For all of this you get a gorgeous Blu-ray transfer that's cuts above any of the DVD transfers. It has brighter colors, less confounding shadows, and has a more 3d feel to it.
A couple of my top favorite kills in this movie are: The scene where the killer kills one of the sexy women he targets by stabbing at her on a waterbed. Another one would we when he victimizes another sexy victim while she's showering as he slices his chainsaw right through her torso.
All in all, I would say that this movie was a tremendous masterpiece. It features everything that makes a slasher great; as it has a killer with a traumatic backstory, brilliant and very realistic looking gore, great nudity, sexy and gorgeous victims, a genius score, a feeling of isolation with the setting, dark and foreboding rooms, a taut mystery that will keep you guessing, a nice body count, memorable characters, the killer has a chainsaw and wears a black and creepy outfit the pacing is nice and even, and besides getting 2 versions allowing the viewer to view the movie uncut and uncensored, and as if all of that wasn't enough, this set includes a second disc of bonus's, the movie's great score, a second disc, and best of all it has the best transfer ever. A must see for every slasher fan!! 10 stars out of 10!!
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La presentación una espectacular caja de carton rigido de gran tamaño que guarda en su interior el puzzle fetiche de nuestro serial killer de turno, y un box set, con la edición en BR, DVD y BSO, ademas de un libreto. Todo ello con una calidad de imagen de infarto y cargado de extras, que mas se le puede pedir?¿....Pues que venga en español, algo raro en las ediciones de arrow pero que en este caso si tenemos.
Una edición de lujo para un filme de culto, que no puede faltar en la estantería, de ningún coleccionista.
Gran presentación, calidad, y amor puesto en esta edición de lujo de 2 blu ray y un cd con el soundtrack de la película.
Compra obligada para todo fan del cine de culto, y serie b.