When this lowly blogger was a prepubescent worm he was taken to a crappy movie house to watch Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón’s gruesome 1982 slasher Pieces. What he saw on screen was a boy near his own age chopping up his hot mom up with an axe and then dismembering her body with a hacksaw.

The boy had been caught by his mother working on a picture puzzle of a nude woman and had no choice but to slaughter the uptight shrew when she tried to rid him of it. It’s a tragic event that haunts the boy into adulthood and drives him to chainsaw college coeds in Boston, using their severed limbs and parts to create a likeness of his mother.

I went into that theater a boy. I came out a man. A very sick man. It has taken years to erase those images from my mind to become a well adjusted member of the human race. But, now, exploitation and restoration authority Grindhouse Releasing is threatening my mental stability with the official Blu-ray release of Pieces, presented in 4K transfer scanned from the original camera negative!

The 3-disc Pieces Blu-ray includes the original, unrated U.S. theatrical version and the original, Spanish-language uncensored director’s cut, Mil Gritos Tiene La Noche, with English subtitles. In addition to the films, the set comes with a bonus CD of the original soundtrack, remastered from the original studio tapes.

A new feature-length documentary, 42nd Street Memories, and new audio commentary from star Jack Taylor and a shitload of numerous other deranged treats are included as well. For complete details and for theatrical screening information on Pieces, visit Grindhouse Releasing online. Pre-order at Amazon and Diabolik.