Exclusive: Pieces Blu-ray Release to Feature Brand New Alternate Score; Theater Dates Revealed!
“And other surprises.” So reads the bottom of the press release for Grindhouse Releasing’s upcoming Blu-ray edition of Pieces, aka our most highly anticipated Blu-ray release of the year. Finally we’ve uncovered just what one of those surprises will be!
According to Grindhouse’s David Szulkin, the Pieces Blu-ray will feature a brand new alternate score from Umberto. Matt Hill of Umberto said the following regarding his alternate Pieces score:
“I was originally commissioned to write and perform it for the Glasgow Film Festival in 2012. Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai was at the performance and asked to put a record of it out on their Rock Action label. The record was called Night Has a Thousand Screams. It’s just selections from the entire score though. The next year I did a performance of it at the Egyptian Theatre for Beyond Fest, and last year I performed it at MondoCon in Austin, Texas. So this will be the first time it’s available to listen to in its entirety with the film for people who couldn’t attend any of the three performances.”
Check out a sampling below.
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In other Pieces news… the film is coming to the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Boston on February 26th and 27th. From there it will play at the Texas Theatre in Dallas on March 4th. Pieces also screens Saturday night, February 6th, in Seattle at the Grand Illusion Cinema in 35mm with an encore presentation February 10th. Grindhouse is also bringing the flick to Starlite Cinemas in Rochester, New Hampshire, February 20th to kick off a new Grindhouse Releasing series (Evil Dead will follow on February 27th; all films will be shown in glorious 35mm). For those in Los Angeles, Grindhouse will be hosting a having a free Pieces release party at the Hyperion Tavern on March 11th.
Regarding being one of the lucky 3,000 to score a copy with the replica jigsaw puzzle, you had better get your orders in via Diabolik DVD ASAP! We have it, and it is GLORIOUS! Expect a review soon!
Pieces Release Details:
Hitting stores March 1st, this jam-packed, definitive hi-def set (specs below) comes complete with an eye-popping PIECES jigsaw puzzle (limited to the first 3,000 copies, available now for pre-order at Diabolik DVD and Amazon.com). Through an exclusive deal with Grindhouse Releasing, Diabolik DVD customers will receive PIECES a week early on February 23rd – and get first crack at the limited edition, which is projected to sell out fast.
Directed by Juan Piquer Simón and starring Christopher George (Lucio Fulci’s CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, GRIZZLY, TV’s “RAT PATROL”), Edmund Purdom (DON’T OPEN TIL CHRISTMAS), Paul L. Smith (MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, David Lynch’s DUNE, and Robert Altman’s POPEYE), and Lynda Day George (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE), PIECES tells the story of a psychopathic killer stalking a Boston campus, brutally slaughtering nubile young college co-eds, collecting body parts from each victim to create the likeness of his mother, whom he savagely murdered with an axe when he was ten years old.
PIECES was a Variety Top 10 box office smash in its original release, debuting at #5 in its first week (ahead of RETURN OF THE JEDI at #6!). It has remained a favorite among connoisseurs of gore, including director Eli Roth, who ranks PIECES as one of his top horror films of all time.
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Special Features:
- TWO complete versions of this shocking gore classic:
– PIECES (83 min.) – the original, unrated U.S. theatrical version, presented in English
– MIL GRITOS TIENE LA NOCHE (86 min.) – the original uncensored director’s cut, presented in Spanish with original score by Librado Pastor (with English subtitles translated directly from the spoken language) - Spectacular new 4K transfers – scanned from the original camera negative
- Brand new audio commentary by star Jack Taylor
- Special 5.1 audio option – the Vine Theater Experience!
- In-depth interviews with director Juan Piquer Simón and genre superstar Paul L. Smith
- 42nd STREET MEMORIES – all-new feature-length documentary containing interviews with Bill Lustig, Larry Cohen, Frank Henenlotter, Buddy Giovinazzo, Jeff Lieberman, John Skipp, Lynn Lowry, Terry Levene, and many other exploitation icons
- Extensive gallery of stills and poster art
- Exhaustive filmographies
- Liner notes by legendary horrors journalists Chas. Balun and Rick Sullivan
- BONUS CD – original soundtrack – newly remastered from the original studio tapes
- Beautiful embossed slipcover
- First 3000 units include an actual jigsaw puzzle! Strictly limited to 3000 units!
- AND OTHER SURPRISES!
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