10 Midnight Movies You Need To Watch

By Ian Watson /

2. Pieces (1982)

There€™s only one way to appreciate this gonzo slasher, and that€™s with an enthusiastic crowd. A movie that thinks €˜subtlety€™ and €˜nuance€™ are towns in the Midwest, Pieces throws in everything for the sake of an entertaining show and lets nothing €“ not the bad dubbing, the horrific acting or the outrageous plot €“ stand in its way. On a New England campus, nobody notices a co-ed being hacked up with a chainsaw on the front lawn in broad daylight, so the Dean brings in Keystone Kops Christopher George and Frank Brana, who spend the rest of the movie wondering what use a heavy breathing maniac could have for the limbs he steals from his victims. In a film with no shortage of unintentional laughs, special mention must be made of the sequence where a co-ed gets into a lift with a black-garbed, heavy breathing psychopath, who she doesn€™t realise is carrying a chainsaw until he revs it up.