Pieces [Blu-ray]

You don't have to go to Texas for a Chainsaw Massacre! Grindhouse Releasing is proud to present the sickest and most violent of all the early '80s slasher movies. A psychopathic killer stalks a Boston campus, brutally slaughtering nubile young college co-eds, collecting body parts from each victim to create the likeness of his mother, whom he savagely murdered with an axe when he was ten years old. PIECES is a wild, unrated gorefest, with enough splatter and sleaze to shock the most jaded horror fan.

Special Features include two complete versions of this shocking gore classic: the original, unrated U.S. theatrical version presented in English (83 minutes), and the original uncensored director's cut, MIL GRITOS TIENE LA NOCHE, presented in Spanish with the original score by Librado Pastor (86 minutes). Fans can enjoy spectacular new 4K transfers, scanned from the original camera negative, along with a brand new audio commentary by star Jack Taylor and a special 5.1 audio option - the "Vine Theater Experience"!

In-depth interviews with director Juan Piquer Simón and genre superstar Paul L. Smith are also included, as well as the all-new feature-length documentary "42nd STREET MEMORIES", containing interviews with exploitation icons such as Sam Sherman, Bill Lustig, Larry Cohen, Frank Henenlotter, Buddy Giovinazzo, Jeff Lieberman, John Skipp, Lynn Lowry, Terry Levene, and more. Extensive galleries of stills and poster art, exhaustive filmographies, and liner notes by legendary horror journalist Chas. Balun and Rick Sullivan round out the special features.

As if that wasn't enough, a BONUS CD featuring the original soundtrack, newly remastered from the original studio tapes, and a beautiful embossed slipcover are also part of this exciting release.

The praise for PIECES is effusive, with director Eli Roth calling it "one of my top horror films of all time! Not only is this the ultimate chainsaw movie, it's the ultimate slasher film. It has everything you could possibly want, by the bucketful. Full on chainsaw violence, absurd amounts of nudity, and the greatest ending in horror history. A masterpiece of early '80s sleaze." Rick Sullivan of GORE GAZETTE describes it as "a barrage of great, graphic entrail-spewed slaughter executed in super-gross European gore technician style," while Bill Landis of SLEAZOID EXPRESS hails it as "one of the most shocking exponents to hit the Deuce in the 1980s" that "went straight for the jugular... one of the few movies at the time that silenced the most raucous grindhouse audiences." Chas. Balun of THE GORE SCORE gave it a "PERFECT 10!", and Joe Bob Briggs called it "The best chain-saw flick since the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE" with "Splatter City" and "FOUR STARS!"

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