20 Exploitation Films You Must See Before You Die

On a New England campus, nobody notices a co-ed being hacked up with a chainsaw on the front lawn in broad daylight, so the Dean brings in Keystone Kops Christopher George and Frank Brana, who spend the rest of the movie wondering what use a heavy breathing maniac could have for the limbs he steals from his victims.

A movie that thinks ‘subtlety’ and ‘nuance’ are towns in the Midwest, Pieces throws in everything for the sake of an entertaining show and lets nothing – not the bad dubbing, the horrific acting or the outrageous plot – stand in its way.

In a movie with no shortage of unintentional laughs, special mention must be made of the sequence where a co-ed gets into a lift with a black-garbed, heavy breathing psychopath, who she doesn’t realize is carrying a chainsaw until he revs it up.