The co-eds of a Boston college campus are targeted by a mysterious killer who is creating a human jigsaw puzzle from their body parts.The co-eds of a Boston college campus are targeted by a mysterious killer who is creating a human jigsaw puzzle from their body parts.The co-eds of a Boston college campus are targeted by a mysterious killer who is creating a human jigsaw puzzle from their body parts.
Lynda Day George
- Mary Riggs
- (as Linda Day)
Frank Braña
- Sgt. Randy Holden
- (as Franck Brana, Frank Brana)
Paul L. Smith
- Willard
- (as Paul Smith)
Gérard Tichy
- Dr. Jennings
- (as Gerard Tichy)
Cristina Cottrelli
- Jenny - Pool Victim
- (as Cristina Cottrel)
Paco Alvez
- Alister Schwartz
- (as Francisco Alvez)
Alejandro de Enciso
- Cop #1
- (as Alejandro Enciso)
Hugo Astar
- Cop #2
- (as Carlos H. Aztarain)
- Director
- Writers
- Dick Randall
- Roberto Loyola
- Juan Piquer Simón(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBecause producer Dick Randall was simultaneously making kung-fu films in Rome, a cameo for a Bruce Lee imitator, Bruce Le, was written into this film, even though this scene makes no sense in the context of the rest of the film.
- Goofs(at around 1 min) Although the prologue is set in 1942, the mother tells the boy to get a plastic trash bag, even though it was invented in 1950. Aside from the American version that has this goof, the Spanish version she just asks for a dustbin.
- Quotes
[after exiting the room of a bloody corpse]
Kendall: You see it?
Mary Riggs: YES! While we out here fumbling with that music... the lousy bastard was in there, KILLING HER! BASTARD! BAAAAASTAAARD! BASTAAARD!
- Alternate versionsVHS edition released by EDDE Entertainment omits the important prologue scene before the credits which sets up the plot for the entire film.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Don't Scream: It's Only a Movie! (1985)
- SoundtracksA Strange Symbol
(uncredited)
From Ring of Darkness (1979)
Composed by Stelvio Cipriani
Keyboards by Claudio Simonetti
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Naked to Be Killed - A Slash, Gore and Cheesy Cult-Movie
While playing with a puzzle, a teenager is repressed by his mother, and he kills her and severs her body with an ax. Forty years later, in an university campus in Boston, a serial killer kills young women and severs their bodies in parts, stealing body pieces from each student. Lt. Bracken (Christopher George) makes a deal with the dean of the campus, and infiltrates the agent Mary Riggs (Lynda Day George) as if she were a tennis teacher and together with the student Kendall (Ian Sera), they try to find the identity of the killer.
"Pieces" is so bad, senseless and ridiculous, that contradictory becomes very hilarious and a slash, gore and cheesy cult-movie. The first funny points are the beautiful naked "actresses", always naked to be killed - all the victims are women with delicious bodies. The dialogs, screams and situations are so absurd that become another attraction: the tennis player that is an undercover cop to survive; or the student that accesses the documents and help the police in the investigation itself; or the killer that starts killing forty years after his first death with unexplained reasons or trigger. I could list lots of unreasonable situations in the screenplay, but better off the viewer finds them (and certainly will). The bloody effects are good, but when the killer is stabbing a woman on a water bed, the terrible cut is absolutely visible. I personally liked this film a lot, but I only recommend it for fans of trash-movies. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "O Terror da Serra Elétrica" ("The Chainsaw Terror")
Note: On 05 July 2020, I saw this film again.
"Pieces" is so bad, senseless and ridiculous, that contradictory becomes very hilarious and a slash, gore and cheesy cult-movie. The first funny points are the beautiful naked "actresses", always naked to be killed - all the victims are women with delicious bodies. The dialogs, screams and situations are so absurd that become another attraction: the tennis player that is an undercover cop to survive; or the student that accesses the documents and help the police in the investigation itself; or the killer that starts killing forty years after his first death with unexplained reasons or trigger. I could list lots of unreasonable situations in the screenplay, but better off the viewer finds them (and certainly will). The bloody effects are good, but when the killer is stabbing a woman on a water bed, the terrible cut is absolutely visible. I personally liked this film a lot, but I only recommend it for fans of trash-movies. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "O Terror da Serra Elétrica" ("The Chainsaw Terror")
Note: On 05 July 2020, I saw this film again.
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- Mar 23, 2006
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Box office
- Budget
- $300,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,032,311
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $604,510
- Sep 25, 1983
- Gross worldwide
- $2,032,311
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1(original & negative ratio / European theatrical ratio)
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