10 Best Guilty Pleasure Horror Movies You Probably Missed

It's hard not to at least have some grudging respect for a film that markets itself with the tagline, "It's exactly what you think it is."

And indeed, J. Piquer Simon's 1982 cult slasher film Pieces delivers precisely what it advertises - attractive female college students being hacked to pieces with a chainsaw, at the behest of a serial killer who uses their appendages to build his own human jigsaw puzzle. Yup.

The script won't be winning any awards not called Razzie, but Pieces is a gorgeous, bewildering exercise in style, focused almost entirely on its memorably lurid murder sequences, shot with an uncommonly artful eye while paying clear homage to the giallo genre.

Entertainingly sleazy and impossible to accuse of taking itself too seriously, Pieces is an uncrowned trash-classic that's still a joy to behold almost 40 years after it first slithered into cinemas. You'll probably want to shower immediately after watching it, though.