It was given to director Juan Piquer Simón by Randall and Steve Minasian, with whom he had worked on previous films.
Contrary to popular belief, Joe D'Amato was not involved in this production. The short script for Pieces was written by American exploitation filmmaker Dick Randall and Italian producer Roberto Loyola, credited as "John Shadow". Additionally, Conrich criticizes the film for having a "transparently misogynistic narrative" as well as resembling the aesthetics of pornography, featuring scenarios similar to those found in contemporaneous adult films. Carmen Aguado as Carla, Aerobics Instructorįilm scholar Ian Conrich notes in Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema that Pieces has an "almost self-reflexive awareness of its status as an exploitation film." Conrich summarizes the film as a "hybrid amalgamation" of body horror films, "the pioneering splatter films of Herschell Gordon Lewis," and the Italian giallo.Silvia Gambino as Mary, Elevator Victim.Leticia Marfil as Suzie, Locker Room Victim.Cristina Cottrelli as Jenny, Pool Victim.Roxana Nieto as Virginia Palmer, First Victim.Later, a shaken Kendall leaves with Holden and just as he grabs his jacket, the jigsaw-corpse inexplicably comes to life and castrates him as he screams. Bracken, Holden, and Kendall burst into the dean's apartment, and he is shot dead by Bracken while Kendall rescues Mary.Īfter searching through the apartment and discovering the jigsaw puzzle, Holden – joking to Kendall that he should join the police force – leans on a bookshelf which switches around and contains the dean's human puzzle a decomposing body made of his victims' body parts stitched together and donned in his mother's dress, which tears apart as the jigsaw-corpse falls on top of Kendall.
Meanwhile, Mary is drugged by the dean at his apartment and attempts to saw off her feet, since the previous victim's feet did not fit his mother's shoes for the puzzle. They spend hours researching files on the faculty and discover that the dean previously changed his name and that his mother was brutally murdered, discovering that he was Timmy. Kendall presents his theory to Holden about the killer being a member of the faculty, since he knows when and where to strike before avoiding the police. While Mary and Kendall focus on turning off the music, the killer steals the girl's legs and escapes. As she pees herself, the killer saws into the room and ends up killing Suzie by being sawed in half. Later the next day, one of Mary's tennis students, Susie, goes into the locker room after the killer plays music on the loudspeakers. That same evening, the killer also stalks Sylvia and stabs her on a waterbed. As a reporter named Sylvia Costa is stonewalled by Bracken, the killer stalks a girl later that evening and saws her arms off inside an elevator just before Kendall and the police arrive. Bracken explains to Holden that she will pose as a tennis instructor at the college and that Kendall is going to assist her whenever he can. Bracken brings in an undercover cop named Mary Riggs, who was also a former tennis player. Jennings meets with Kendall at the station in hopes that he can help provide a profile of the murderer. Near the pool, they find the chainsaw and the girl's body parts, save for her torso. Willard later arrives on the scene and is arrested, believed to be a suspect. In the library, a student named Kendall receives a note given by a girl to come to the pool later the killer finds it and tracks down the girl at the pool, where she is brutally killed with the chainsaw.
Outside, the groundskeeper, Willard, is seen trimming a hedge with a chainsaw. The school's dean asks Professor Brown, who teaches anatomy, to give the detectives a tour of the school.
While studying outside in broad daylight, a girl is decapitated with a chainsaw by an unidentified killer who steals her head. He also unboxes the bloodied jigsaw puzzle and starts to put it together. Forty years later, after witnessing a skateboarder smash into a mirror, a black-clad figure opens a box containing the bloodied clothing and a photograph of Timmy's mother. The police believe Timmy's story and he is sent to live with his aunt. When the police arrive, Timmy hides inside a closet and pretends to be a witness to the crime. After she orders him to dispose of the puzzle, he returns with an axe, murders her, then dismembers her body with a hacksaw. In 1942, a 10-year-old boy named Timmy is chastised by his mother for playing with a jigsaw puzzle of a nude woman.
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