Now, Grindhouse already released Pieces as a 2-disc DVD set in 2008, but one important inclusion here is that they've added the uncensored director's cut alongside the unrated American version that was on the DVD. All in all, it's an enjoyable time for a slasher fan, but it's probably not far out enough to convince more mainstream audiences. The silliness is there just enough to keep you involved, while it works to deliver as a genuine slasher, with some genuinely gruesome kills. Christopher George plays it pretty flat and the dubbing is genuinely poor. It's still mostly an actual slasher that follows the numbers without comment.
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Even the premise of one of the police officers being a beautiful young woman/ tennis pro who decides to go undercover at the college is clearly having some fun by taking the insipid extremes of the genre and playing them up to the point of parody.īut it never really turns the corner into full parody. Or a really funny gag where the killer boards an elevator with his next victim while hiding a chainsaw behind his back. A Bruce Lee parody guy suddenly jumps out and attacks one of the cops in the middle of the night, only to apologize ("must've been bad chop suey!") and run off into the night. But it's got some very strange moments of humor, some of which are totally cliche (the chesty girl innocently asking the anatomy professor what the pectorals are), whereas others are totally out there and original, making the film stand out. Certainly the bulk of the film is a very formulaic, traditional slasher film about a mysterious killer murdering students on a campus, with a couple of very perfunctory cops on the trail. One of its famous taglines is "It's exactly what you think it is." But I don't think that's exactly true. If you're not already familiar, Pieces is a Spanish slasher film that's famous for how it doesn't put on any airs.
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