PIECES

Jean Piquer Simon has acquired a minimum of notoriety by bringing to the world of Home Video a well-made film like "Slugs – Vortice of terror ", a film inspired by a novel by the splatterpunk writer Shaun Hutson (who in turn surely did not miss reading the delicious "The Man Who Loved Snails " by Patricia Highsmith). "Pieces " (1983) although qualitatively inferior to "Slugs ", for lovers of trash is a sort of icon to worship. Synthetically, it could be dismissed as a splatter contaminated by veins of ironic madness (not consonant definition but justifiable), but behind the evident misery of Simon's work, behind an absurd acting, behind a miserable script with ridiculous and crazy lines ("Why didn't you go to the pool for the date? " ... "Well ... mmm ... I had a strange premonition ") you can also find interesting points (or at least debatable) to be found mainly in the good visual rendering of some gore scenes and in that madness to which we referred that seems more sought and wanted than "unintentional ". The story is the crazy journey into the madness of a maniac who slices up young girls and dismembers them in order to create a sort of Frankenstein mannequin that can defeat the ghosts of the past, a past that hides the usual existential-sexual problems due to a prohibitionist and priggish mother (anthological the first scene of the film in which the child intent on building a puzzle depicting naked women is scolded by the mother with the bloody massacre ... Question: how can a child of half a kilo devastate the body of a mature woman? Mystery ...). From there, all the itinerary of lucid and perverse madness of this black-gloved killer who, through the explanation of violent murders (he cuts the arms of a girl in an elevator, then heads, legs ...) gives vent to his illness. Notable in the cast is the mythical (sob!) Edmund Purdom, already a priest in "Rosso Sangue " by Peter Newton (aka Joe D'Amato) and count in "Fracchia vs. Dracula " of fantozziana memory. Many cult scenes but the palm of trash deserves that of the girl who, seeing the maniac, literally pees in her pants. However, we are at guard levels !!!