#48-#49

John Carpenter's The Ward (2010)

• This is the latest movie from one of my favorite directors, John Carpenter
• The movie follows a group of women who have been committed to a Mental Ward in the '60's
• The montage of images at the beginning are frightening by themselves. They are pictures of procedures performed on the mentally ill back then.
• Some great scares and gore throughout.
• This movie was good, but nothing was that great about it. A similar movie that I liked much more is Session 9

Pieces (1982)

• A Spanish produced film. This gives it the same weird dubbed action as the many Italian horror films.
• The plot is that a young boy is caught putting together a nudie jigsaw puzzle by his mom. She starts beating him, so he kills her. 40 years later, he is stalking co-eds on a campus and is piecing the perfect woman together after cutting up girls with a chainsaw. 
• Christopher George is the main cop here. He looked so familiar, and then after some research, I realized he is in City of the Living Dead, which I also like.
• Lt. Bracken seems to have a very odd fondness of Kendall. Kendall might as well be deputized with how involved he is with the cops.
• This is probably my unexpected favorite movie so far. We get nudity, gore, chainsaws, lines that are hilarious on purpose (and not on purpose), and a great ending. Highly recommended.