Mil gritos tiene la noche
Tags: cruelty, grindhouse film, murder, cult, horror, violence, insanity, sadist

Plot synopsis:
Boston, 1942. A mother walks into a room and catches her son, Timmy, doing a jigsaw puzzle of a naked female. Very irrigated, she says she is going to burn it. She order her son to get her a plastic bag which to dispose of the remains. Tommy instead takes an axe from a closet and murders his mother. He then saws her dead body into pieces and sits down to finish his puzzle. A woman neighbor shows up at the house and knocks on the front door where there is no answer. After phoning the house and still getting no response, she calls the police. Two policemen force their way into the house and enter Timmy's bedroom where they find blood covering the floor. One of the policemen says "Something's been butchered up here. Let's hope it was an animal". Inside a closet, they find the woman's decapitated head. In another closet in the hallway, they find the blood-splattered Timmy who screams "Mommy!" The policemen console him where he tells the officers that a maniac broke in and murdered his mother.40 years later. An unseen person enters a fancy apartment and goes to a closet where he recovers a box containing shoes and clothes, mostly covered in dried blood. Along with it is the remains of the nude jigsaw puzzle.Somewhere on a college campus, a girl is studying in the grass. Nearby, an unknown person is seen working on the shrubbery with a chainsaw. The man dressed in all black clothing approaches and saws off her head with the chainsaw. A little later, Lt. Bracken (Christopher George) and his partner Sgt. Holden (Frank Brana) arrive to investigate the killing. They talk to the college dean (Edmund Purdom) about the chainsaw murder and there were no witnesses and the girl's head is missing. Bracken tells the Dean that they have no suspects and says "We're just out buying clothes without labels and trying them on for size". Willard (Paul Smith) the burly and bearded groundskeeper is outside utilizing a chainsaw similar to the one the killer used.In the campus library that evening, a girl gives a note to a male student, named Kendall (Ian Sera), expressing the desire to "do it underwater". The unseen killer finds the discarded note nearby and goes to the gym swimming pool where the girl is. As the girl swims, the black-clad killer grabs her by her hair when she swims close to a wall and pulls her out of the water and attacks her with his chainsaw. A little later, Willard arrives and turns on the pool lights where he sees Kendall run from the area and finds a bloody chainsaw and the girl in pieces with her entire torso missing. The police arrive and arrest Willard when he attempts to run. The groundskeeper claims to the cops that he just discovered the body and had nothing to do with the killing. Both Bracken and Holden are stumped by the mutilated dead girl with her entire torso missing. "I wonder what he's doing with all the pieces that are missing" says Bracken.The next day at the police station, Dr. Jennings (Gerard Tichy) arrives to provide a profile of the murder. Lt. Bracken brings in Mary Riggs (Lynda Day George), a former tennis player-turned undercover-cop. Bracken explains to Holden that Mary is going undercover to pose as a tennis instructor at the college, and Kendall is going to assist her whenever he can.Sylvia Costa (Isabelle Luque), a Boston Globe reporter, tells Bracken about the rumors she has heard, leading her to believe that a maniac is running loose. Meanwhile, the unseen black-clad killer returns to his apartment and set out to get more pieces of dead women (while continually working on his human jigsaw puzzle). The killer has assembled the girl's severed head to the torso. He now needs a pair of arms and legs.That evening, the killer (his face still unseen and wearing all black clothing along with black leather gloves with a Fedora hat), stalks the deserted campus and follows a girl who has just finished her aerobics routine. She goes to wait for an elevator and appears to recognize him when he approaches. The girl says "oh, it's you." She tells the killer that she is worried about the two recent killings. The girl and man in black get into the elevator together. Soon, he reveals his chainsaw which has has been hiding behind his back. He starts it up saws both of her arms off (in close-up and graphic ultra-gory fashion). On the floor below, Kendall hears a scream and he and two policemen enter the elevator only to discover that the killer has already fled and the armless woman in the elevator. The police call in for medics, but the woman dies before she can tell them anything about what the killer looked like.A little later that night, Kendall sees Mary walking around alone at the deserted campus. While the unseen killer is near, Mary has an odd encounter with the kung fu professor, who attacks her and then explains he is not sure what happened after Mary has kicked him in the groin. Afterwords, Mary leaves with Kendall, but Sylvia is still snooping around. The killer follows Sylvia and murders her.The next day, Mary and Kendall are playing tennis. A fellow tennis player heads into the locker room to shower. The unseen killer appears again and attacks her with his chainsaw. She apparently knows the killer when she screams "You!" The killer chases her into a linen closet where he chainsaws the door down. The killer breaks in and cuts into her torso. At the same time, Mary and Kendall see Willard leaving the locker room and inquire about music being played loudly over the speakers. They eventually find the bloody, dismembered corpse inside the locker room with both of her legs cut off.Kendall then goes to the police station where he meets Holden and thinks that the killer must be part of the university faculty since the killer seems to know when and where to strike and avoid the police. The look into the Dean's past and they discover that when the Dean was younger, his mother was killed by a person who was never found and that he previously changed his name. They figure out that the Dean must be the killer. They figure out that the Dean must like jigsaw puzzles and has been taking pieces of the dead women to make his own human jigsaw puzzle.Meanwhile, Mary visits the Dean in his office where he takes her back to his apartment on campus (the killer's apartment). She is clearly in danger of becoming a victim herself. The Dean tells Mary that she has nice feet, so the Dean drugs her drink and plots to kill her to saw off her feet to fully complete his human jigsaw puzzle. Bracken, Holden, and Kendall burst into the Dean's apartment, forcing him to run. They find Mary sitting on the sofa, temporarily paralyzed by the drug.After the cops leave Kendall there alone, the Dean comes out from behind a curtain (he was only hiding and never fled the apartment) and attacks. Bracken returns and shoots the Dean who falls dead. Afterwords, Holden inadvertently discovers the Dean's human jigsaw puzzle when he leans against a bookshelf and it turns around; the body assembled from the various human parts falls onto Kendall. When Bracken, Holden, Mary and everyone else prepares to leave the scene as the cops take the Dean away in the body bag, Kendall goes for his jacket. Suddenly, the human jigsaw corpse, somehow comes to life and grabs Kendall's crotch and squeezes, vividly castrating him in revenge her her master's death....

Review: As in most slasher movies there are plenty of suspects to choose from, including a scary looking gardener (cult favourite Paul Smith, 'Midnight Express', 'Crimewave'), a Professor of Anatomy (Jack Taylor, who appeared in a few Jess Franco classics like 'Succubus' and 'Eugenie'), and the Dean (Edmund Purdom, 'The Fifth Cord', 'Ator').
It's bloody, completely illogical and contains the most unexpected martial arts scene in the history of horror movies (yeah, I know...).
What an amazing, totally hilarious, totally entertaining movie!After seeing a little kid hack up his mother with an ax (and the subsequent arrival of the police who have no reaction whatsoever to the woman's severed head lying in a closet), we jump to "forty years later" at a college campus in Boston.
He gets an equally stupid line in this movie with "Right now we're just buying clothes without labels and trying them on for size." He enlists the help of Kendall, a well meaning student who is played by the guy who says "It stinks!" in "Pod People".
Juan Piquer Simon's "Pieces" is one of the most hilarious slasher movies ever made.In the early 1940's a little boy is caught by his mother while he is assembling a puzzle with a naked lady on it.The boy gets mad when his mother takes his puzzle,so he kills her with an axe.40 years later somebody butchers random college chicks with a chainsaw."Pieces" is a highly entertaining gore trash filled with enough blood to satisfy horror fans.There is for example a lopped off arm,a severed flying head and a knife through the mouth murder scene.The ending is incredibly surprising and hysterical.There is also a violent kung fu teacher and death by mirror.So if you're a slasher/giallo fan give this one a look-you won't be disappointed.8 out of 10..
Forty years later, in an university campus in Boston, a serial killer kills young women and severs their bodies in parts, stealing body pieces from each student.
Lt. Bracken (Christopher George) makes a deal with the dean of the campus, and infiltrates the agent Mary Riggs (Lynda Day George) as if she were a tennis teacher and together with the student Kendall (Ian Sera), they try to find the identity of the killer."Pieces" is so bad, senseless and ridiculous, that contradictory becomes very hilarious and a slash, gore and cheesy cult-movie.
The dialogs, screams and situations are so absurd that become another attraction: the tennis player that is an undercover cop to survive; or the student that accesses the documents and help the police in the investigation itself; or the killer that starts killing forty years after his first death with unexplained reasons or trigger.
I personally liked this film a lot, but I only recommend it for fans of trash-movies.
Smith wins the honours for worse acting in this daft gore flick but he is also the most entertaining as the very unhelpful gardener whose chainsaw goes on walkabout (why he never feels the need to lock it up to keep it away from the deranged killer is beyond me, but then again there are many points like this in this film).
There is a God-awful and stupid plot twist 20 seconds at the end of the film that makes no sense whatsoever and almost destroys what is a daft but fun addition to the slasher cycle.
I fall into the latter; the film's gritty, low-budget presentation gives it something of a hard edge that I find appealing, especially paired with the gore effects.The acting is all over the place and the film suffers from bad dubbing (this was a Spanish production with token American actors Christopher George and Lynda Day George), though the finale, as rough and abrupt as it is, is rather unforgettable (and unconscionable).
Overall, "Pieces" is a mixture of both bad and good, and the kind of film that caters to a very specific audience.
0 points, if just for repeating "Bastard!" three times.Overall: Good for a laugh if you're into really bad horror flicks from back when.
Not really, unless you are going to go with the whole `if you have sex while you're a teenager you're going to die a horribly painful death' thing that many people have suggested, (not regarding this movie specifically, but the `slasher' genre) then I suppose it would be necessary to prove that point.
I don´t think so."Pieces" has more the style of "Halloween" or "Friday, the thirteenth" movies, only that perhaps it is a bit more gory but situations are similar although with the element of investigation by the police and one young student from the university in which the murders are happening.
I think it is probably the most entertaining movie directed by Piquer together with "Slugs" and if you like Slasher genre(with more gore as usual, that´s true)give this one a chance..
I like some of the murder scenes, but some parts of the movie are laugh out loud bad.
We first see the killer take out the good ol' jigsaw puzzle, complete with bloodstains still on it.He starts doing the jigsaw puzzle, you will see him complete the head portion, then he will go kill a girl and take her head, next you will see him put the arm pieces on, and go find a girl with nice arms and so on.He is trying to remake his mother out of other girls, he is really a twisted guy.
Since it's technically a piece of garbage, the redeeming value of the film is its series of extremely gory chainsaw and butcher knife murders, the best of which are a decapitation, an arm amputation, a knife through a head (shades of "House by the Cemetery"), and a chainsaw ripping into a torso.
I am not proud to be saying that gory murders make a film, but when it comes to pieces (no pun intended) of cinema like this, what else can I commend it?
There's not quite enough imaginative gore (there's plenty but it's straightforward in its application) to enjoy is as a piece of visceral entertainment, not enough crazy plot to enjoy it as comedy - it has some interesting eccentric characters and a nasty enough central gimmick but it's good not great in the slasher pantheon..
But while it's highly silly, it's also very entertaining.It's about a serial killer who collects female body parts to mirror the pieces of his naked lady jigsaw puzzle.It has a curious habit of mixing moments of the bizarre with alternate scenes of full-on excessive violence.
There's Lynda Day George (Mission: Impossible), her real life husband Christopher George (City of the Living Dead), Edmund Purdom (The Fifth Cord), Paul Smith (the sadistic warden from Midnight Express) and Jack Taylor (from a host of 70's Spanish low budget horror films).
It has the typical bad horror movie elements including the 3 B's (blood, boobs, and bad acting) and the last scene is completely obsurd and unexpected.
Forty years later, coeds at a Boston college are killed off by a psycho with a chainsaw so he can create a human jigsaw puzzle with female body parts.
Bad acting (what can you say about Lynda Day George's reaction to seeing a mutilated woman and screaming "Bastard!" three times?), directing, and editing kills this one.
i saw this movie as a kid and loved it i though it was great, but like i said i was young, well i own a copy of this movie the unrated version, and it sucks but you see that what makes the movie so good i could not stop laughing.
Agatha Christie fans wont be too satisfied with the whodunit aspect either, if you've got half a brain you'll guess the killer's identity in the first 20 minutes!But still like i said earlier it's not all bad, there's a lot of unintended laughs to be had, especially at the stereotypically sluttish female co-eds.
If you wanna see a sick movie where people get chainsawed by a masked killer, whom you'll probably guess his identity by the middle of the film, if not earlier, then this'll do it for you.
Like most horror films, it placing stereotypical characters (not to mention dumb girls) in ridiculous situations where they're asking to be killed.
Pieces has everything of a bad movie: unnecessary nudity, Violent acts performed with lewd gusto, Badly dubbed lines, and a pretty daft ending.
Years later the killer is loose making a puzzle of young girls body parts, one piece at a time!!
BASTARD!" dialogue, the scenes that were horribly, uh, pieced together  most of which had nothing to do with the previous scene (I'm sorry, if you're headed straight towards a giant mirror, and you find yourself on a 'runaway' skateboard, never mind  you really should know what to do), the characters  gotta love the 'Bluto' gardener with the evil eye and laugh, police work so botched I can tell why the killer chose this easy-target campus and an action scene that's downright a highlight involving kung fu.
Even alone at home it's impossible not to howl as loud as possible.Made in Spain but set in New England (which perhaps may excuse the terrible dubbing), there's something resembling a plot line involving a series of murders on a Boston campus, though the movie's serious ADD makes sure no real story is told at all.
And the final revelation of who the killer is was predictable and there's a truly pathetic "shock" at the end.A very sick, nasty, stupid, dull horror film.
PIECES is worth watching for anyone who likes REALLY bad movies.
But the scene that sends this "horror" film into sheer "so bad it's good" nirvana is the "surprise" ending.
Like the best bad films, this one also delivers many unintentional laughs, or maybe they are intentional, who knows, its impossible to tell.Let's be honest, if you even had to read this review beyond "naked women , body parts being chainsawed off" before slamming the "PLAY" button this movie is probably not for you!.
Yes, Pieces packs more gore and strangeness into sixty records than most movies do in ninety minutes.Forty years later, a man in black opens a box that has the bloody clothing of Timmy's mom and a photograph of her.
Horror scripts move the plot between chainsaw trimmings.Actually, direction, pacing, lighting are pretty good and there are some very funny moments in the film, combined with horror shots.
The ending is really good as most reviewers have suggested.Pieces is really in the D'Argeno style of film making: bizarre, horrible and yet really, really inventive and original.
Nothing new here...some interesting chainsaw murders...but overall nothing to write home about.I bought the DVD cheaply (about 6.00), so this is entering public domain territory here.Try it if you want to remember the old days of slasher films..when the fake blood flowed and the dialogue was lousy and the plot development was razor thin :)I give it 4 stars out of 10 (an extra 2 stars for nostalgic reasons).Ronrego.
Full of cheap gore, naked ladies and nasty/degrading moments (the low point being a topless girl who urinates herself right before being sawed in half), the thin story involves a chainsaw killer hacking up women on an American college campus and taking body parts from each victim home for some reason.
*BASTARD*!!!!" after her tennis playing protégé gets hacked to pieces by a chainsaw.This movie definitely goes down as a classic in the horror genre.
Timeless!You also gotta love the scenes where the killer's gloved hand "presses" (more like FORCES) the jigsaw piece into the puzzle before he makes his next move.Too bad they never filmed a sequel to this movie...
Preces One Of The Most Notorious Slasher Movies Of The 80s, Filled With Some Of The Craziest Gory Death Scenes including The Opening Sequence Of a Young Boy Axing His Mother into Pieces That includes Her Head Cut Off, a Young Girl Trying To Her Homework on The Open Field Of The School's Campus And Getting Her Head Cut Off By a Chainsaw, And Another Young Girl Who Has Her Torso Cut in Half With Her Organs Hanging Out. When i Saw This Movie i Thought it Was One Crazy Slasher Film And i Liked it And To This Day is Has a Cult Following Fanbase..
Terrible voice acting, cinematography, gaffes and the most godawful ending in horror history - that back then when I first came to this film and watched that horrific scene - it utterly scarred me for life.
While the general gist of the plot doesn't stray too far from the countless splatter whodunnits released around the same time as Pieces, the clever overlaying premise and the generously graphic presentation of the killer's unique mission ensure that this film distances itself from many of its tepid peers and emerges as one of the most memorable offerings in the '80s slasher canon.The very first scene in the film features a young boy whose mother catches him the act of assembling a pornographic jigsaw puzzle, upon which he proceeds to cleave her skull with an axe and dismember her body with a saw.
While this is surely bad news for the mom, it bodes very well for gore fans, and lucky for us the film has plenty more nasty tidings in store.Fast forward to 40 years later, where we follow the trail of a shadowy killer who stalks a college campus and slays buxom co-eds before paring them down to size with his trusty chainsaw and leaving their scattered portions for the police to find.
Linda Day George is also delightful, and Pieces should be considered mandatory viewing for B-horror connoisseurs because of the contributions of those two beloved genre icons alone.The killer's reveal isn't particularly shocking (the "40 Years Later" sort of limits the number of viable suspects), but when the result of his psychotic handiwork is shown in all its ghoulish glory, the film ends on a sickening high note.
We have chainsaws chopping up women, axes to the head, dismembered body parts, and probably one of the best endings of a slasher film -- or any horror film -- to date.
It's well worth it.However, if you need some more convincing, then read on - Pieces is a ultra stupid hybrid of giallo and modern slasher movies (specifically those set on a college campus, like Graduation Day and Fatal Games)which has so many redeeming qualities that it's earned a special place in my collection.
Cigar chomping Christopher George and Linda Day are on hand to discover who is responsible for the carnage.Pieces has it all: random insanity (the kung fu attack, the girl skateboarding through a mirror, the utterly brain damaging ending), bad acting (Paul Smith's gurning, Linda Day's Oscar winning 'bastaaaaaaard' speech), contrived giallo set pieces (and the gathering of all the suspects in a crowd on a stormy night), nudity, and loads of gore.A film to be taken not with a pinch of salt, but with a full box of SAXA..
Well...not good but entertaining for us slasher fans, who are the only ones checking the film out anyway.Going into the story here...well heck if I know, this is all so stupid there's no point.
Apparently, this is a Spanish film posing as an American one, complete with ridiculous dubbing.As for acting; Christopher George is always a likable performer but he, along with everyone else, comes off bad due to horrible writing, idiotic character behaviors and really f***** up dubbing.In short; Tension: 0.
A psychotic killer is stalking a college campus hacking up girls with a chainsaw so that he can complete a "jigsaw" puzzle out of the pieces.
Pieces delivers with bad acting/dubbing, outrageous set design/continuity goofs, gratuitous nudity, and some of the goriest kills I've seen in any horror film.
For the very same reasons, I happily give this film an 8/10: non-stop graphic gore (severed limbs and arterial spray galore), frequent nudity from a bevy of pretty girls, and the occasional moment of complete and utter randomness make this film an absolute blast.Simon opens his masterpiece of trash with a brilliantly brutal and bloody prologue in which a young boy axes his mother to death for ruining his jigsaw puzzle (of a nude woman).
Detective Lt. Bracken (Christopher George) is given the task of solving the case, but it is a professional tennis player turned undercover cop (Lynda Day George) and the plucky young boyfriend of one of the victims who risk life and limbs to discover the identity of the murderer (which I guessed almost immediately).Written by infamous Italian sleaze director Joe D'amato and schlock producer Dick Randall, the plot for Pieces makes little sense and the script contains several priceless snippets of absolutely dire dialogue: in one scene the killer hides his chainsaw from his next victim behind his back; another features a completely pointless martial arts scene; and a final 'shock' before the end credits is totally bonkers.
This film is one of those movies that s so awful, so nauseatingly bad that it makes it an absolute MUST see!
Little of this film makes any real sense.For example: Why would a boy kill his mother simply because she got mad at him putting together a nudie girl puzzle?
Evidently they even let him keep it until he grew up into a chainsaw murderer that still puts the same freaking puzzle together.Cut to however many years later, and the story turns to focus on a college campus in which people have been getting chain-sawed to death.
So anyway, what amazes me is that sound films had been around for a good five decades by the time this thing came out, and yet dubbing was still so bad that I can't quite figure out why they did it in the first place.
It makes the film feel like half a movie.The end is pointless and makes no sense, but can you really blame Joe D'Amato?