This 80's slasher film is unique in that it was actually shot on two different continents. The end credits inform us that it was filmed in Boston and Madrid. Since the college campus in Boston where the film takes place is never identified, it's impossible to figure out if the interiors were filmed in Boston and the exteriors in Madrid or vice versa. We can assume it's supposed to be Boston College, though Doug Flutie is nowhere to be seen. Anyway, a maniac is running around the campus killing girls with a chainsaw. He doesn't just kill them. He cuts off different body parts from each victim and puts them into a freezer. He does this so he can sew together the parts in order to create the world's first human jigsaw puzzle. He got the inspiration for this forty years earlier when his mother made the mistake of expressing shock and disgust at a jigsaw puzzle of a nude girl he was working on as a ten year old boy. Several suspects are introduced, but it's pretty obvious who the killer is. The cop on the case enlists a student to help because he knows everyone and every inch of the campus, including, apparently, the girl's locker room. He has so much fun pretending to be a detective that by the end of the film he decides he wants to be a cop. Too bad he doesn't have the balls for it. The murder scenes are quite good--lots of blood, and we see the chainsaw making contact with flesh. There is even a product placement for Wendy's. The DVD version of this movie is a bit disappointing. There is no letterboxing, no audio commentary, no deleted scenes, no behind-the-scenes footage, no interviews, no storyboards, no stereo sound, and it only has four chapter stops. A shame, because this is a film that deserves Criterion Collection treatment.
