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Summary: I loved it then and I love it now...
Review: I rented this movie back in the mid-eighties with my cousin who was also a horror-fiend and we both loved it. It was gore, nudity, and lots of bad acting and writing. It had the awesome cover with a chainsawed girl and the caption "You don't have to go to Texas for a Chainsaw Massacre!" I couldn't believe it, years later, when my sister said she saw it for sale at [local retailer] for [cheap]. I had been looking for this movie forever since that initial viewing so long ago and I could finally buy it. It was as great as I remembered. If your a "horror" fan and don't take yourself too seriously you've got to buy this movie. Yes, the copy is bad and only having 4 chapters is ridiculous, but c'mon this is some serious entertainment here. I'll admit that it isn't for all tastes, but to those people who bought this and then gave it a bad review...WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?! It has a chainsawed girl with the caption, "It's exactly what you think it is!" (yes, there were alternate captions)...so what did you bozos "think" it was? I'll agree with the reviews that drop the rating for the quality of this dvd, which is poor, but not the ones that bash the movie itself. This is one of the best bad movies of all time.
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Summary: Classic slasher gore-fest!
Review: I was so lucky to find this movie at my local movie store. I had never seen it, but I heard about it from one of my favorite horror movie websites and they spoke quite highly of it. I knew it was out of stock and out of print, and it was really cheap, so I decided to buy it. I got home right away and popped it into my DVD player. Starting with the first scene, I knew it was my kind of movie. The first scene alone would make a great horror movie, but the rest of the movie is just as great if not greater. If I were a critic, I mean a real critic film-expert-no it all-jerk, this movie would be a wet dream. I could write a thousand different ways that this movie is the worst movie in the history of cinematic art. For one, the words don't exactly match up with the mouth. For two, the plot is somewhat lame. It's about this guy who murdered his mom with an axe when he was a youth because she punished him for having a nude woman jigsaw puzzle. As an adult, he grew up to be a chainsaw-wielding murderer who kills young, college girls for a human jigsaw puzzle. For three, it's just another...80's slasher movie. However, I'm not a big fat film-buff who loves Schindler's List and Lord of the Rings. I'm just a regular gorehound. And for other regular gorehounds like me, this movie is a vintage delight that has strong reminders that Friday The 13th should've had more gore. The gore really makes this film. It's not scary, and it's not a masterpiece, but it's fun, and it has a guy with a chainsaw. Count me in.
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Summary: My Pieces Review
Review: I'm just giving it 2 stars for the awesome gore and kills.
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Summary: VHS dub
Review: I'm not going to comment on the contents of the film itself as so many others have already covered that ground.
Hey, you get what you pay for. At 6 bucks, you get a taped version of the film. Nope, they didn't even try to find the best copy. Lots of grain and video dropouts, especially near the end where an obvious problem with the tape shows on screen.
On the plus side, you can't wear this copy out no matter how many times you play it. If you saw this when it came on in the 80s on video, then you're already familiar with the picture/sound quality.
3 stars for quality, but for special effects, this was a high-quality pic when released - it even won an award.
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Summary: Pieces: great for the money!
Review: I've seen LOTS of bad "horror/exploit" movies, and was expecting this one to rank as one of the worst. I won't lie to you and say it's a masterpiece, but it's certainly worth a dvd copy for [price]. It has a fantastic intro and a head-scratcher ending. I don't think Diamond cut this one much, if at all. The is certainly a nice find in the Slasher/Camp/Exploit/Gore mine. Not quite the realm of Fulci, but worth the purchase at such a low cost.
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Summary: A b-horror (master/disaster)piece!
Review: If you like B-horror films, you'll probably like this. It's got a very simple and very common plot. As you can tell by looking at the cover, it's basically about someone who cuts people apart with a chainsaw and sews their pieces together to make his "ideal" woman, which has something to do with his sick childhood. While I'll admit it is a really bad movie, I absolutly loved it and would have to say it ranks up there amongst my all time favorites. Also!!! It has (one of) the greatest endings to any b-horror film I've ever seen.
So get the balls rolling and buy this movie!!Stobbs
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Summary: You don't have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre!!!!!!
Review: Nothing can prepare you for this sick and twisted movie. Plot in a nutshell: Boy chops up his mom with an axe in dispute over a puzzle, boy grows up and continues to blaze a trail of mayhem, butchering college girls in order to "piece" together a new puzzle- made of flesh. As said in previous reviews, outrageous amounts of gore and unintentional humor make this a must-see for fans of movies like Dead Alive and Return of the Living Dead (demented black comedy). The gore effects are top notch, and easily worth the price alone. Pieces is guranteed to make you laugh if you have a sick sense of humor like I do. I only wish the whole film was as crazy as the first 10 minutes are- you'll see what I mean. I got the R rated version, so I can only imagine what the un-rated edition is like. For the cost of a trip to Arby's you can feast your eyes on Pieces! A psychotic masterpiece, check it out!
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Summary: What a gore fest!
Review: Now this was another great 80's slasher,my stepdad told me to hire this movie,and i watched it with some friends and we all loved it,it starts off with a little kids hacking up his mean mom and sawing her head off,then like 22 years later he starts cutting up girls on campus with a chainsaw to remake his mum with the body bits,anyway i highly recommend you see this movie if you love a big gore fest.
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Summary: Oh yeah, baby, all night long
Review: Okay, you've got this kooky plan. You want to make a jigsaw puzzle out of real, dismembered women. You've got to choose and discriminate---holy hannah, this might just be crazy enough to work. Hmmm...now where do you start? This movie is a story of discovery tracing the epic journey of a deranged mother-hating killer and his campaign of rubber hands and corn syrup blood on a school campus. You feel his pain, as the drama quickens... Killer's Manual: Rule 1...Find the most unappealing chicks you can locate on campus, okay, and then, vewwy vewwy swowwy, you move in with your chainsaw! Aha---the hunter strikes! Don't worry if you're making huge, jagged cuts, and that arcing jets of blood are dying the campus grass red in plain sight of a hundred people. It's okay, because you're wearing your special rubber asbestos suit (borrowed from the guys in Session 9)and no one (except for any casual observer with an active pulse) will know your identity until the END OF THE MOVIE baby! So the killer runs around taking body parts from less than beautiful vixens, using his lemon-yellow chainsaw with a vigor that would make Leatherface reteat back into his cooler utterly abashed. First you need a head---wait, wait, make sure she's NOT pretty, okay, then, let's procede. One body part after another, so gleefully easy, because the cops are forced to inlist the aid of Kendel, local campus slouch, to discern and ultimately catch the killer. Then, you bring in an undercover cop, with feet that the killer won't be able to resist, and make her the tennis coach. Oh, hold it, my pulse is racing. Whoh. Anyway, slowly the cops close in, only a breath behind the killer as he chop-chop-chops his way to a better tomorrow. Confessions of a Killer: Chapter 1...Maybe it would have been easier just to get one chick at the beginning of the movie, maybe that blonde one by the pool who was prettier and certainly more statuesque than any other of my selections. Oh well, you live and learn. By the way, you'll recognize, as one of the cops, that reporter guy from the "Gates Oh Hell", another unassailable tower of horror brilliance. This DVD is [inexpensive], and good for belly laughs that'll leave you sore for days. So don't hold yourself back! Go for it, now. Better hurry, I think I hear a chainsaw...
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Summary: Great Cheese
Review: One of my favorite gore movies and a real classic example of the genre. It is chocked with all three elements that make a great B horror film: gratuitous nudity, buckets of gore and blood, and TONS of unintentional humor. If you're looking for Silence of the Lambs type horror, look elsewhere; leave this little gem to those of us who will appreciate it for what it is: a really, really bad movie.
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