10 Underappreciated 80s Slashers
6. Pieces
Pieces is a re-badged Spanish killer flick which had serious hype at the time of release and rode the popularity wave of the Slasher genre during its peak, garnering a cult following over the years.
It feels like a Giallo thriller, and for the most part plays out that way, with definite nods to Argento in the opening sequence. The killings, the effects, and the overdubbing definitely add the more Slasher/Grindhouse type elements to the movie.
The story opens with a young boy putting together a jigsaw of a naked woman before his melodramatic Mother finds him and reacts in anger, he then returns to his room and kills her with an axe before hiding in the closet and passing off the murder as the act of an intruder. Years later, students on a college campus are being brutally murdered by a chainsaw killer who steals body parts, making for some great killing scenes and an interesting motive.
Pieces is a definite cut above most Slasher movies and despite the, at times, annoying dubbed dialogue it is one of the best of the genre and is certainly deserving of a wider audience now.