10 Most Underappreciated '80s Horror Movies

Directed by Juan Piquer Simon, Pieces is one of those slasher movies that gets overlooked by all but the biggest of horror die-hards.

Released in 1982, this feature opens as ten-year-old Timmy brutally murders his mother with an axe after she discovers him with a jigsaw puzzle of a naked lady. Ever the conniving little sh*t, Timmy then hides in a closet until the police turn up to discover this corpse, where he then resurfaces as a traumatised witness to his mum's death.

Jumping ahead 40 years, Pieces switches its focus to a Boston college campus in the middle of a murder spree. Not just that, but the victims of this sinister sort have certain body parts removed to form a twisted human jigsaw - hence the Pieces of the title.

What makes Pieces particularly impressive, is the whodunnit element running through it. While we're to believe the present-day killer is the adult Timmy, we don't actually know which character is the real Timmy. 

Also, an added bonus is the bonkers final act reveal of the mish-mash corpse collected by our villain, as that wiggly, jiggly, stitched-together body falls onto our central protagonist and, even more bizarrely, later rips his crotch to, err, pieces.