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It was an excellent night at he New Beverly theater last night. A Great double-bill of hard-to-find slashers
Torso(1973)
The print was totally grindhouse; the picture was stained and scratched and even burnt in a few frames, the sound was fucked, but the film is still a classic. Beautiful locations and lots of nudity suffer at the hands of terrible dialog and ham-fisted exposition. But it is in the long, dialog free sections where this movie shines. These beautifully shot wordless moments are tense as hell and as fine an example of visual storytelling as you'll see anywhere.
7.5/10
Pieces(1982)
Having never seen this one, I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but I'm really glad to have experienced it on the big screen with a house full of rabid fans. The story is trashy and stooooooopid, but hilariously so. Here it is in a nutshell: A little kid hacks him mom to pieces and blames it on "a big guy" - 40 years later a killer is hacking up co-ed at a college... with a chainsaw.
The chainsaw gore is great, the tits are plentiful, the dialog is fucking hilarious and the plot is retarded. At one point a small Asian man pops into frame and starts kung-fu-ing our heroine...and then he leaves, never to be mentioned again.:confused: And the Completely out-of-the-blue ending makes the Carrie ending seem logical and tame.
6/10 (I loved it, but really can't rate it any higher)
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