Pieces 1982

Pieces, also known as Mil Gritos Tiene La Noche) was released in 1983, it didn’t do to well in theatres at the time but became a kind of a cult movie once it was released on video, and as stayed a cult piece since.
I watched it for the first time very recently, and would have a hard time saying that I have joined the Pieces cult along with Dan from Exploitation Retrospect, but on the other hand, can’t completely put it down as not worth the watch. It is, but as far as Pieces I choose as my watch time and time again - this is not one.
(I would rather see Sweeny Tod again, or Blue velvet)
The background story (if you could call it that ) is that a teenager is repressed by his mother while playing with a puzzle and in return, he kills her and chops her into little pieces with an axe.

Some forty years later there is a series of murders of young woman on a university campus, the killer of course (surprise surprise) cuts his victims up into little pieces, taking a bit of each student (obviously trying to make up a puzzle later)…. Detectives(Christopher George, Frank Brana and Linda Day George) are on the case, with the help of the local amateur sleuth Ian Sera.
Their investigation is like Flooring the pedal with the hand brakes on in that is is totally ineffective, the bodies pile up, as do the parts until they stumble on to the killer.

There is no depth in the dialog or in the plot, and the mystery is as shallow as a puddle after a five minute cloud burst - but I do get, funnily enough why it turned cult - it is hysterically funny.

As if funny was the intention and not horror.

The only other movie I can compare it to, is one of the first movies Johnny Depp ever made, called Crybaby, (not from the horror genre at all) that was so bad it had to be intentional, and therefor good, and it to has become somewhat a cult film.