Monday, August 20, 2012

Mil gritos tiene la noche (Pieces)

Let's talk about Pieces for a minute. Specifically, let us talk about the sheer crappiness of it.

What happens after the intro scene happens forty years after the incident pictured above. Now, here is a major spoiler, so if you really don't want to know who the grown-up bad guy is, stop reading now: The murderer of many a female college student still has the same hair color and a similar haircut.

For a while, however, pretty much everyone is a suspect. There is the gardener, who likes to wield his chainsaw and just generally looks suspicious. There is the smart, popular kid who is about to meet up with a naked blonde in the indoor pool - the very site of her untimely demise. There is the anatomy professor who is - OMG! - gay. There is also the dean, who speaks in a curious English accent (this is New England, mind you).

So, the police have their hands full. So full, in fact, that they recruit the aforementioned college kid (no, really) and a blonde, female tennis player (no, really) who will be undercover as the college's new tennis coach (no, really).

Everything about the film is so quintessentially 1980s, it is almost painful to watch.

*shakes-head-sadly*

1/10

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