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Pieces

Although clearly Europe, the purportedly Boston-set slasher, Pieces, does take the viewer to another place entirely. (For 80s gore-heads, Bean Town is the setting for the fairly pedestrian slasher, Night School, filmed in the city’s Beacon Hill neighbourhood). Like other slasher masterpieces from the era, Pieces whets appetites with a delicious prologue and a nudieContinue reading “Pieces”

Mountaintop Motel Massacre

Part Tourist Trap, part Psycho, Mountaintop Motel Massacre lacks the charm of the former and the direction of latter. We’re in small-town Louisiana at some roadside dumpy motel (the kind that “steal your towels” according to the late, great Rodney Dangerfield). Our antagonist, Evelyn, is released from a looney-bin and returns to her place ofContinue reading “Mountaintop Motel Massacre”