This Day in Halloween: The controversial American-Spanish slasher film -- and famous "video nasty" -- "Pieces" opens across the U.S. in 1983. / Illustration by Blanca Dunwoody
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.
