Sept. 23, 2025

This Day in Halloween: The controversial American-Spanish slasher film "Pieces" opens across the U.S. in 1983. / Illustration by SA Hart

Pieces opens across the U.S. in 1983. The controversial American-Spanish slasher film about a killer on a college campus is notable for its gruesomeness, and despite mostly scathing reviews and its seizure in Britain as a “video nasty,” it becomes a cult hit.  

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