A Movie Review of Pieces (1983)

First thing you need to know about this movie is that its a B Movie, no high expectations.
Pieces is "exactly what you think it is". A chainsaw wielding killer murders college girls.
The story is very limited, not much is developed throughout the movie, effects are great (considering that its a B movie and it came out in the early 80's), acting is ...standard. Music is ok.
So the movie centers around a college in New England, where various girls are mutilated by a killer. The story does not go beyond that, except for the opening scene (which was one of my favorite scenes), there is no back story. But that is not the point of the movie, it is all about the murders. Some are ok, some are laughable, none are scary; still I found it entertaining.
Although the movie lacked in many places, I felt that the influences where very visible. I got a very strong 'Dario Argento' vibe from the killer; the gloves, the shot of the hands, the music for the killer was also like Dario Argento's films. In fact the whole movie has a Dario Argento feel to it, too bad it doesn't even compare to any of his movies. There was also a scene that could have easily been a reference to The Shining.

As far as horror movies goes, this one is very low on the "horror scale", but if you are a horror fan like me, and a B movie enthusiast (like me) you will find that there are far worse movies you could see instead of this one. I would see this movie right before watching an actual good one, or just to laugh at, which i did.

seeing as this is my first review I don't know if i should give them some sort of score, or what scale to use, so for the time being I will use several different scoring systems.

MOVIE SCORE: 

• 6.5/10
• 2/5 stars
• D- 
• P (O.W.L.)

but I think i might be reviewing more B movies (i enjoy watching them even if they are generally bad) so i should make a separate scale for B movies right? ...well it on B movie scale its a solid 8/10...