10 Outrageously Gory Horror Films You Need To See

In the hands of Juan Piquer Simon, the Spanish auteur who gave us flesh eating molluscs in Slugs, what should’ve been a simple Friday The 13th knock-off becomes an outrageous bloodbath where heads and arms are lopped off and a woman is cut in half by a chainsaw.

Pieces begins the way most movies do, with a boy taking an axe to his mother before cutting up the body and hiding in a closet as the police arrive. Forty years later, a black-garbed maniac carves up the female students on a Boston campus, using the body parts to create a human jigsaw. Could they be the same person?

Legendary among hardcore horror fans for its bad acting, absurd storyline and over the top direction, Pieces is a masterpiece of so-bad-it’s-good cinema. After nobody witnesses a student being decapitated on the front lawn in broad daylight, the Dean declares it an “unfortunate accident” and decides against closing down the campus. This leads to several more murders, most amusingly when a victim steps into an elevator with the killer, who she doesn’t realize is carrying a chainsaw until he revs it up.

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