10 Best B-Movie Horrors From The '80s
4. Pieces (1982)
This Spanish-American cross-production details a killer prowling the campus of a Boston university. This fedora-clad figure is intent on recreating a cheesecake style jigsaw puzzle from their youth, only this time the pieces are from very real women!
With this title and a tagline proclaiming "It's exactly what you think it is..." this film had a lot to deliver on but rest assured, Pieces fulfils its gore quota with plenty left over.
Impressive practical effects on a tight budget include severed heads, disembowelment and a crushed "private" part that will make everyone wince.
What really made Pieces the legendary schlock-fest it became is the dialogue, as a great deal of badly delivered dubbing turns it into the campery of B-cinema legend. Be it a Kung-Fu professor proclaiming "bad chop-suey" has made him violent or Lynda Day-George's extremely melodramatic cursing, Pieces is a thing of beauty you must witness.
An alternate Spanish cut is available, restoring the original dialogue and providing a much more sinister score making the film a very different entity. It's gruesome and unrelenting, proving how post production tinkering can truly decide a movie's fate, Pieces could've been a dark slasher classic instead of a B-Movie cheese-fest