Pieces (film)

Pieces
Spanish film poster
Spanish	Mil gritos tiene la noche
Literally	The Night Has 1,000 Screams
Directed by	Juan Piquer Simón
Screenplay by	Dick Randall Roberto Loyola[i]
Produced by	Dick Randall Stephen Minasian
Starring	Christopher George Paul Smith Edmund Purdom Linda Day
Cinematography	Juan Mariné[ii]
Edited by	Antonio Gimeno
Music by	Librado Pastor[iii] Stelvio Cipriani[iv] Carlo Maria Cordio[iv] Stephen Ham[iv] Alain Leroux[iv] Fabio Frizzi[iv] Enrico Pieranunzi[iv] Silvano Chimenti[v]
Production company	Almena Films[1]
Distributed by	Internacional Films Distribución (Spain) Film Ventures International (U.S.)[3]
Release dates	August 23, 1982 (1982-08-23) (Spain) October 14, 1983 (1983-10-14) (U.S.)
Running time	89 minutes[1][4]
Countries	Spain[5][6] United States[7][6]
Box office	$2 million (U.S.)[8]

Pieces (Spanish: Mil gritos tiene la noche, lit. 'The Night Has 1,000 Screams') is a 1982 Spanish-American slasher film directed by Juan Piquer Simón, written and produced by Dick Randall, and starring Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Frank Braña, Edmund Purdom, Paul L. Smith, Ian Sera, and Jack Taylor.

The plot follows an unknown assailant killing female students at a college campus in Boston, who uses their body parts to make a human jigsaw puzzle. A co-production of Spain and the United States, Pieces was originally released in Spain in August 1982, and was distributed in the United States by Film Ventures International.

Since its release, the film has attracted a cult following and has been a drive-in favorite. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty controversy.

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