Line #26 Film/Pieces


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3	->''Pieces... It's exactly what you think it is!''
4	-->-- One of the two {{Tagline}}s
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6	A SlasherMovie from the year 1982, directed by Juan Piquer Simón (aka J.P. Simon), who also did ''Film/{{Slugs}}'' and ''Film/PodPeople''
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8	The film opens up at a house in UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} in 1942, where a little boy is shown completing his favourite jigsaw puzzle, which depicts a nude woman. His mother freaks out upon finding the thing, and her son proceeds to answer her reaction by hacking her up with an axe, and cuts the body to pieces. Feigning innocence, the boy manages to trick the police who barge in on the scene.
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10	Forty years later, a college campus is shaken by a string of chainsaw murders as the boy now wants to put his puzzle back together once more, this time with human body parts.
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13	!!Examples:
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15	* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: The groundskeeper and initial prime suspect Willard is always called Will-Ard.
16	* AnArmAndALeg: Mary finds herself stuck in an elevator with the killer, and gets her arms are chopped off (as the killer needs them for his project) and she eventually bleeds to death.
17	* AxeBeforeEntering: Suzy tries to hide in a locked bathroom, but the killer saws his way through its door.
18	* BigBad: [[spoiler:The Dean]] turns out to be the killer.
19	* BigWordShout: After finding Suzy's corpse, horrified Mary goes outside, and after exchanging few words with equally horrified Kendall, starts screaming "BASTAAARD! BASTAAARD! ''BASTAAARD!!!"'' in frustration. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCCxGQetNrk It simply must be seen to be believed]].
20	* BloodIsSquickerInWater: One victim is stabbed to death on a waterbed, and the thing inevitably breaks and bloodstained water gets splashed everywhere.
21	* BookcasePassage: The killer's secret jigsaw corpse is stored behind a spinning bookcase. A JumpScare is provided when the characters find it.
22	* BoringButPractical: When he isn't using the chainsaw, the killer resorts to a knife for less noisy kills.
23	* BringMyBrownPants: As the killer has Suzy cornered with his chainsaw, she wets herself in terror.
24	* ChainsawGood: The killer's weapon, which he uses to cut off the parts that he wants for his puzzle.
25	* ChivalrousPervert: Kendall is always being involved (or at least trying to) with ladies, but won't let it get in the way finding the killer.
26	* CigarChomper: Bracken is ''never'' seen without a cigar, even unlit.
27	* CurtainCamouflage: The killer hides behind the curtain when the cops find out his identity and arrive at his place.
28	* DisproportionateRetribution: The killer gets punished by his mother for assembling a puzzle of a nude woman. What's his response? Brutally murder her and cut her body into pieces.
29	* FlashBackEcho: The killer starts his rampage when he sees a skateboarding girl crashing through [[SheetOfGlass a mirror carried by a two guys]], as it reminds him of the time when his mother smashed one before her death at his hands, and it inspires him to put together his grisly puzzle.
30	* FreudianExcuse: The killer's reason for going insane? His mother took away his pornographic jigsaw puzzle. The killer [[spoiler:dresses his corpse-puzzle in the dress that his mother wore during her death, suggesting that the whole project is [[FrankensteinsMonster a twisted attempt to bring her back]]. The ending has the thing coming to life, so it may have succeeded]].
31	* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: The killer's stitched together trophy corpse inexplicably coming to life and clawing at Kendall's crotch.]]
32	* {{Gorn}}: The killer leaves a lot of blood and bodyparts on his crime scenes. Some of the more gruesome scenes show he manages to do that.
33	* GroinAttack: Used at the very ending [[spoiler:where the dean's corpse-puzzle-woman suddenly springs to life and slashes Kendall's genitals with her nails]].
34	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Suzy is sawed in half horizontally, and her lower body goes to the killer's project.
35	* IronicNurseryTune: Little boy in the opening sings "Humpty Dumpty" to himself while putting the puzzle together.
36	* LargeHam: Lynda Day George's astonishing turn. see BigWordShout above.
37	* MaleFrontalNudity: Kendall shows some briefly after getting up from a bed that he moments earlier shared with one of his many ladies.
38	* OffWithHisHead: First victim gets her head severed off, and so does the second one as the killer only wants her torso.
39	* OneWordTitle: A plural one.
40	* PornStash: The little boy's mother discovers her son's porn collection after she finds him putting together the pornographic jigsaw puzzle in the opening. Matricide ensues.
41	* PrettyLittleHeadshots: [[spoiler:After all the gory mutilations, the killer is finished off with a relatively bloodless gunshot to his forehead]].
42	* RedHerring:
43	** [[spoiler:Willard, the large, bearded handyman, as he is a strange fellow who is shown using a chainsaw in his first appearance. He loses the status after stumbling on the scene of the second murder]].
44	** [[spoiler:Professor Brown is also another suspect for being conveniently nearby the murder scenes twice, but also proves to be innocent]].
45	* TheReveal: The killer is revealed to be [[spoiler:the dean of the college, who was never suspected by the characters]].
46	* ShowerScene: Before she is done in, Suzy takes a shower after tennis practice.
47	* SlippingAMickey: [[spoiler:The dean spikes Mary's coffee, so that he'll have easier time to chop her up and finish his project with her feet]].
48	* StockFootage: Some of the exteriors were unused footage from Simon's 1979 film ''Film/SupersonicMan''.
49	* TakeThat: The "You don't have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre!" tagline is one at ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''.
50	* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: The killer using a pornographic jigsaw puzzle during his childhood. Oh, and the murder too.
51	* VomitingCop: One of the two cops who find the armless girl in the elevator gets sick from the sight and starts vomiting.
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