Pieces [Mil gritos tiene la noche] AKA: A Thousand Cries in the Night, AKA: Chainsaw Devil (Juan Piquer Simón, Spain 1982, 85 min.)

Equal parts slasher, giallo, police procedural, campus thriller, and outright fever dream, Pieces barrels from one jaw-dropping scene to the next with complete confidence that nothing needs to make sense as long as it's entertaining. It has something to do with a deranged killer who suffered a traumatic episode involving a jigsaw puzzle as a child and now, as a result, dismembers women with a chainsaw. Egads. As the tagline for the US release quite honestly puts it, "It's exactly what you think it is." Also honest is the critic from Brooklyn Magazine who opined: "It’s absolutely fucking nuts."

Free and un-ticketed--you don't think we'd charge for something like this, do you?

Reviews:

“An authentic hardcore splatter film of the sort Santa Cruz rarely has to endure.”

--Santa Cruz Sentinel

“Pieces may have been assembled as a welfare project to provide employment of the chronically untalented since there’s not a shred of evidence of ability on the part of anyone connected with this production.”

--The Harrisburg Evening News

"In keeping with the conventions of ​’80s slasher movies, there is plenty of tits and ass on display."

--Little White Lies

"Lynda Day George... plays a well-known tennis star and undercover cop. (How she manages to be both is one of the film's lesser puzzles.)"

--Los Angeles Times

"Watching this film with a crowd is the most fun experience I have ever had watching a movie."

--Eli Roth

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