#Pieces 1982 death scenes movie#
The 2011 Arrow Video DVD release features a vibrant print and comes with some nifty extras for slasher fans, including my favourite: an interview with the deadly serious Jack Taylor ‘an actor is born, not made’, about his long career in Spanish genre films. A Slasher Movie from the year 1982, directed by Juan Piquer Simn (aka J.P. Pieces is totally crazy (especially the final scene), but also bloody good fun, and the waterbed death scene is a standout. Even the soundtrack sounds like a spoof one of Goblin’s Argento film scores. You’ll scream in terror one minute, then with delight at the absurdity of it all the next.
#Pieces 1982 death scenes professional#
It’s very ‘no holds barred’, but the film’s more bizarre elements (like a woman impaled by glass a la The Omen while out skating, and the Flashdance-inspired music sequences) throw you off guard. Greatest Movie Death Scenes: Title Screen : Film Title/Year and Description: Screenshots: The Professional (1994, Fr.) (aka Leon) In the sacrificial death finale in writer/director Luc Besson's thriller, professional NYC mob hitman Leon (Jean Reno) was shot in the back of the head by corrupt New York cop and drug kingpin Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman). When director Juan Piquer Simón‘s film was first released, it caused controversy with regards to its violence against women, but watching it now, it’s more goofy than gory. Blood Tide (1982) Running Time: 97 mins Color Starring: James Earl Jones, Jose Ferrer. Meanwhile, Paul L Smith, who will forever be known as the sadistic warden from Midnight Express, just arches his big caterpillar eyebrows as the film’s red-herring, while genre favourite Jack Taylor gets some wonderfully inept dialogue to recite: “I’m not a pathologist, but even a lay man can see it was done with this ’. Avalon makes a unique about-face starring as the hatchet-wielding murder. Christopher George, best known as TV’s The Immortal, is the investigating detective, while his real-life wife Lynda Day is the undercover cop who screams one swear word over and over again. Description: Paul Kersey, the vigilante, now lives in LA with his daughter, who is still recovering from her attack. Her torso is seen in a plastic bag being carried away by Gérard. Release Date: 11 February 1982 (UK) Category: Forced sex scenes in mainstream movies. 1982’s Pieces is best served as a splatter spoof than an exercise in excessive violence.Ī masked psycho (who looks like Vincent Price’s Henry Jarrod armed with a chainsaw) is cutting up college girls and using their body parts to construct his ideal woman. Pieces ( 'Mil gritos tiene la noche') (1982) Jenny, Pool Victim : After being dragged from a swimming pool by the neck with a skimmer net, Cristina is decapitated and dismembered (off-camera) by Gérard tichy with a chainsaw so he can collect her torso for his human jigsaw puzzle.