Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006)

Every fear you’ve ever felt. Every evil you’ve witnessed. Every nightmare you’ve ever known… have come together for the first time in one film. Going to Pieces is the ultimate anthology that takes you on a horrifying journey through your favorite slasher films including Halloween, Psycho, Friday the 13th, Prom Night, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream and When a Stranger Calls. Interviews with horror icons John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Rob Zombie, Tom Savini and many more guide you through a series of gruesome scenes from classic films and recent hits. Watch as the history of the slasher film comes alive…if you dare!

A MUST for any Slasher fan

Going To Pieces"The rise and Fall of the Slasher"
This is a MUST HAVE for any Slasher,Horror or Gore hound.
It traces the controversial roots of the Slasher all the while showing interviews with Horror icons ,Make up artists,directors etc,.
It also shows some of the best and goriest scenes form some of the best slasher flicks from the 60's to the present.
I have watched it so many times and each time I see something new that I missed the first time,it also pays special attention to the films that have become classics and discusses the reasons why they are so endeared and have stood the test of time.
It's the best compilation of horror gore clips I have ever seen in one movie.
November 17, 2008

not everything is cut out

I recently got this movie. And I had seen it about a year ago I couldn't remember any nudity being shown. So in light of it being the halloween season I was looking forward to showing this to my kids in a sort of educational review of the genre. And I couldn't find any mention to content - other than what I knew was going to be in there, gore.

Well although they did cut out most sexual content they left about 6 female frontal shots in. Most of it is pretty brief, except one.

Don't get me wrong, the sexual content is probably one of the main reasons as a teen I started watching horror movies! But for what I was wanting the movie for -helping spread the love of horror- I needed something without nudity or very brief nudity.

I guess the main problem is that there is no mention of this content ANYWHERE on the web. So I'm adding it here so no one else is left clueless.

But then again, how many parents have their Disney/Nickelodeon watching kids sit down and watch clips of some of the greatest horror movies ever made days before halloween? probably not many. October 30, 2008

Not that many Pieces

Going to Pieces had great promise but alas vastly disappointing.
This is a quasi "documentary" and more like a glorified
entertainment tonight type show doing a special on slasher films.
If you're looking for history and a sense of "connecting the dots"
between films and their respective time-lines..you won't find it here.

Case in point,"Psycho" and "Peeping Tom" [both 1960] get about a 60 second mention...fast fwd to 1978!?! Let's skip the entire Italian giallo period...minus a brief [yet again]mention of Mario Bava and let's not even acknowledge "Black Christmas" [1974]or "Schizo" [1976] both of these films are forerunners to the genre and yet they're completely ignored.

Although "going to pieces" boasts some great clips and some decent interviews, it's all so quick and clearly catering to the
"attention span zero" generation. Finally,I can accept the inclusion of neo-slasher films like "Scream" & "I Know What you did Last Summer". However,why are films such as "SAW" and "Hostel" that are definitely NOT slasher films shown..let alone discussed..so unbelievably irritating!

I was truly looking forward to seeing this documentary as I grew up during the "slasher n stalker" craze and saw many of them in the theatre...for considerably less than what I paid for this DVD, mind you.


Going to pieces...it certainly does.
October 13, 2008

Amusing documentary - but DVD is too expensive

I watched the full documentary on a channel (I believe it was Encore), and, it's very amusing. But nothing you need to spend more than $8 on. Unless of course, you're dying for the interviews with Joseph Stefano and Bob Clark, now that they've both passed away since the documentary was completed.

It covers practically all the slasher films. But it's 88 minutes, so, they use most of them to make a point, go in and get out as fast as they can. The best thing about it is that you get interviews with Felissa Rose (who is always articulate and fun to listen to) and Amy (Holden) Jones who I don't remember ever doing a real interview for Slumber Party Massacre. And they get a lot of directors to speak. Including "the guy" who made Graduation Day (I'm surprised he would admit it).

It's really best seen on TV. A price tag bigger than $5 is too high. January 10, 2008

Old skool slasher films remembered

This documentary offers some of the best gore scenes from the old skool slasher films, however, many go by too fast to fully appreciate. There a buckets of blood, dismemberments, throat slices, impalements and lots of other frightful blood thirsty scenes. The documentary is not earth shattering with vital information, and for one into horror films, will learn nothing new about the genre. The interviews are short and vague, and do not offer a lot of perspectives about slasher films. There are many films that this documentary missed, however in the end, surprisingly, it all seems to work. This was enjoyable for pure entertainment value, and not as a learning lesson of the genre. November 18, 2007

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