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In 1942, ten-year-old Timmy Reston is scolded for a jigsaw puzzle showing a nude woman. His mother tells him to throw it away; he returns with an axe and kills her, then dismembers her with a hacksaw. Police find him hiding in a closet, and he is sent to his aunt. Forty years later, a figure in black opens a box holding a bloodstained dress and the old puzzle, and begins assembling it. A student studying on the campus lawn in Boston is killed with a chainsaw, and her head is taken. Lt. Bracken and Sgt. Holden take the case. Bracken brings in Mary Riggs, a former tennis pro, to go undercover as an instructor on the campus tennis courts, with student Kendall helping her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pieces (1982)
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- Pieces is set in Boston, but director Juan Piquer Simón shot it at the Complutense University of Madrid and in Valencia, Spain. The film's American exteriors were not Boston either: they were shots reused from Simón's Supersonic Man (1979), which was filmed in New York City.
- Simón said he was proud of the visual effects in Pieces, especially the effect of a chainsaw cutting through a young woman's stomach, which was done with a pig carcass, along with the slaughterhouse guts used.
- None of the female stars of Pieces knew how to play tennis, even though they were playing professional players, so director Juan Piquer Simón hired a tennis coach so they could learn to lob the ball convincingly, he said in an interview on the film's 2008 DVD.
- Pieces was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty controversy, although it was not prosecuted for obscenity.
