Pieces (original title: Mil gritos tiene la noche translation: 'A Thousand Screams in the Night') is a 1982 exploitation slasher film and "drive-in favorite." The film was directed by Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simon. It stars Christopher George, Linda Day, Frank Braña, Edmund Purdom, Paul L. Smith, Ian Sera, and Jack Taylor. In 1942, a 10-year-old boy named Timmy plays with a jigsaw puzzle of a nude woman when his mother walks in. She chastises him for it. The mother orders Timmy to get a plastic bag to "burn everything." Instead of her order, Timmy gruesomely murders her with an axe, then saws her body with a hacksaw. The police later arrive and break into the house through the front door, and Timmy hides in the other closet. The police enter the bedroom only to find a bloody mess, including the mother's dismembered head in one of the closets. The police hear Timmy crying in the other closet. They open the door, only find the boy soaked in blood. The police question the whereabou. …