Now, whether that is due to poor dubbing or it is literally down to the script, I can't be sure, but it gets to the point where it becomes laughable, even farcical.
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IF there had to be a detraction, I would be pushed to say the only major downfall of this movie is the silly dialogue. Luckily these borrowings don't serve as a detraction and it all comes together in a unique way to form a very stylish, not to mention very gory, exploitation flick. His motivation for killing linking back to a deep-rooted, childhood-related psychosis and of course the main plot is very slasher-centric: college girls being slaughtered in and around the campus. As are the usual slasher staples: shots from the killer's POV, complete with heavy, throaty breathing. The usual gialli tropes are evident mysterious villain, complete with a black fedora, black gloves and you guessed it a black raincoat. Pieces is a difficult film to pigeonhole into either one of the giallo or slasher sub-genres, as it lifts themes from both the Italian and American sides of 'stalk and slash' cinema. Starring: Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Paul Smith, Frank Braña and Edmund Purdom So at long last, I am going to talk a little bit about Juan Piquer Simón's giallo/slasher Pieces. It was presumably destroyed by request after all these years, but it still lurks out there somewhere - for those who wanted this film to be "exactly what you think" it once was.You would think that a blog dedicated to showing exploitation films some love would have covered this title sooner, sorry to disappoint y'all. Juan Piquer Simón (the filmmaker) did not like this idea of having a film ending so terrifying and weak, which was either supposed to have been played out seriously or just as a joke, so the alternate ending was scrapped. The screen then fades to black and the film ends. It then fades to another shot of the now-completed jigsaw puzzle as the camera zooms into it - implying that those who have watched the scene, movie or are reading this, are next. After about three more seconds, it shows one final shot of the Dean's room with the corpse disappeared from view. He immediately scampers out of the room through the door everyone left in and slams it shut the camera shifts away from the corpse and only focuses on Kendall as this happens. Shaken, he immediately snatches the jacket from the corpse, looking back at it for one last time - but it doesn't spring to life. The scene immediately goes back to reality, revealing that the whole scenario was just a hallucination in Kendall's mind.
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The alternate ending commences within the same scene but it's halfway into the castration when the Dean comes back to life an earsplitting screech accompanies the scene along with the Dean giving a chilling death stare. With the scene cleared up except for Kendall, he goes to grab his jacket only to be castrated by the corpse.
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While left alone to assist a paralyzed Mary out of the apartment, the Dean comes out of hiding and tries to kill Kendall - only to get shot in the head and killed by Bracken.Īfter further investigation of the apartment, Holden leans on a bookshelf and the corpse (consisting of human body parts) stumbles out of the closet, landing on top of Kendall much to his fright. Bracken, Holden, and Kendall burst into the Dean's apartment, only to find the Dean missing. Spoilers ahead of the original, you have been warned: the original ending has Mary drugged by the Dean at his apartment who virtually saws off her feet. There had been a rumor around about an alternative ending to this movie that was shot, but then was scrapped at the last minute for being "too frightening". Fast forward forty years, the boy is now grown into an adult and decides to make his dream come true by killing a bunch of girls on a college campus to hopefully create a human jigsaw puzzle out of his own mother. Does any horror fan remember the cult classic slasher film, Pieces? In case you don't know what the film focuses on it's about a young boy who murders his mother years back, during the Second World War over a pornographic puzzle he had found.