Pieces (film)

Pieces is a Slasher Movie from the year 1982.

The film opens up in 1942 where a little boy is shown completing a jigsaw puzzle with a nude woman on it. After his mother witnesses this, she freaks out and the boy hacks her up with an axe.

Forty years later, a college campus is shaken by a string of chainsaw murders.


 * An Arm and a Leg: One girls dies when her arms are chopped off and she bleeds to death.
 * Axe Before Entering
 * An Axe to Grind: Mother in the opening gets axed.
 * Big Word Shout: "BASTAAARD! BASTAAARD! BASTAAARD!!!"
 * Blood Is Squicker in Water: The waterbed murder.
 * Bookcase Passage
 * Bring My Brown Pants: One girl wets herself when she is about to be killed.
 * Camping a Crapper: Averted.
 * Chainsaw Good: The killer's Weapon of Choice.
 * Curtain Camouflage
 * Damsel in Distress
 * Daylight Horror: It starts off with a flashback of the killer chopping his mother up with an axe. The movie skips ahead forty years later and the first kill is a college student getting chopped up by a chainsaw in the middle of the quad on a day that's so sunny, the glare from the sun hides the killer's face. It's a very effective use of this trope.
 * Dramatic Thunder
 * Elevator Action Sequence
 * Fan Service
 * Flashback Echo: The killer starts his rampage when he sees a skateboarding girl crashing through a mirror carried by a two guys, as it reminds him of the time when his mother smashed one.
 * Freudian Excuse: His reason for going insane? His mother took away his pornographic jigsaw puzzle.
 * Gorn: Are you really suprised?
 * Groin Attack: Used at the very ending and comes right out of nowhere.
 * Half the Man He Used To Be: The fate of most victims.
 * Hand of Death
 * Handsome Lech: Kendall.
 * Hollywood New England
 * Impending Doom POV
 * Intrepid Reporter: Sylvia.
 * Ironic Nursery Tune: Little boy in the opening sings "Humpty Dumpty" to himself while putting the puzzle together.
 * Jerkass Victim: The mother had it coming.
 * Knife Nut: When he isn't using the chainsaw, the killer resorts to a knife.
 * Mommy Issues: The killer, once again.
 * Off with His Head: Plenty of victims gets their head severed.
 * One Word Title
 * Peek-a-Boo Corpse
 * Porn Stash
 * Pretty Little Headshots
 * Red Herring: The large, bearded janitor is used as this.
 * The Reveal: The identity of the killer.
 * Scare Chord
 * Shoot Out the Lock
 * Shower Scene
 * Slipping a Mickey
 * Soundtrack Dissonance
 * Take That: The "You don't have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre!" tagline.
 * Time Skip
 * Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: The killer using a pornographic jigsaw puzzle during his childhood.
 * Use Your Head