Pieces (film)

Pieces is a Slasher Movie from the year 1982.

The film opens up in 1942 where a little boy is shown completing a jigsaw puzzle with a nude woman on it. After his mother witnesses this, she freaks out and the boy hacks her up with an axe.

Forty years later, a college campus is shaken by a string of chainsaw murders.

Tropes used in Pieces (film) include:

• An Arm and a Leg: One girls dies when her arms are chopped off and she bleeds to death.
• Axe Before Entering
• An Axe to Grind: Mother in the opening gets axed.
• Big Word Shout: "BASTAAARD! BASTAAARD! BASTAAARD!!!"
• Blood Is Squicker in Water: The waterbed murder.
• Bookcase Passage
• Bring My Brown Pants: One girl wets herself when she is about to be killed.
• Camping a Crapper: Averted.
• Chainsaw Good: The killer's Weapon of Choice.
• Curtain Camouflage
• Damsel in Distress
• Daylight Horror: It starts off with a flashback of the killer chopping his mother up with an axe. The movie skips ahead forty years later and the first kill is a college student getting chopped up by a chainsaw in the middle of the quad on a day that's so sunny, the glare from the sun hides the killer's face. It's a very effective use of this trope.
• Dramatic Thunder
• Elevator Action Sequence
• Fan Service
• Flashback Echo: The killer starts his rampage when he sees a skateboarding girl crashing through a mirror carried by a two guys, as it reminds him of the time when his mother smashed one.
• Freudian Excuse: His reason for going insane? His mother took away his pornographic jigsaw puzzle.
• Gorn: Are you really suprised?
• Groin Attack: Used at the very ending and comes right out of nowhere.
• Half the Man He Used To Be: The fate of most victims.
• Hand of Death
• Handsome Lech: Kendall.
• Hollywood New England
• Impending Doom POV
• Intrepid Reporter: Sylvia.
• Ironic Nursery Tune: Little boy in the opening sings "Humpty Dumpty" to himself while putting the puzzle together.
• Jerkass Victim: The mother had it coming.
• Knife Nut: When he isn't using the chainsaw, the killer resorts to a knife.
• Mommy Issues: The killer, once again.
• Off with His Head: Plenty of victims gets their head severed.
• One Word Title
• Peek-a-Boo Corpse
• Porn Stash
• Pretty Little Headshots
• Red Herring: The large, bearded janitor is used as this.
• The Reveal: The identity of the killer.
• Scare Chord
• Shoot Out the Lock
• Shower Scene
• Slipping a Mickey
• Soundtrack Dissonance
• Take That: The "You don't have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre!" tagline.
• Time Skip
• Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: The killer using a pornographic jigsaw puzzle during his childhood.
• Use Your Head