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Pieces is a 2014 American horror film and is a remake of the 1982 film of the same name. The film stars Eli Roth, Calvin Reeder, Patrick Wilson, Michael Keaton, Nora Arnezeder and Shia LaBeouf. It is directed by Larry Roosevelt, produced by Alexandre Aja, Jason Blum and Eli Roth and written by Jason Pagan, Andrew Stark, Simon Barrett & Leigh Whannell.

Summary
After killing his mother over forty years ago, a chainsaw wielding killer goes on a rampage around a college campus in Boston, slaughtering innocent young girls to make his own human jigsaw puzzle.

Cast

 * Patrick Wilson as Lt. Bracken
 * Michael Keaton as Sgt. Holden
 * Calvin Reeder as Prof. Arthur Brown
 * Nora Arnezeder as Mary Riggs
 * Shia LaBeouf as Kendall James
 * ??? as Willard
 * Eli Roth as The Dean
 * Jennifer Lawrence as Sylvia

Production
In 2011, it was announced by Jason Blum that a script for the remake was in the works and that Paramount Pictures agreed to distribute the film.

By December 17th, 2012, the director had claimed principal photography had begun. Filming lasted for about 8 months, ending around mid-August on a $30 million budget. The exteriors were shot at Boston University, while interiors were filmed at Benedict Hall and in Detroit, MI.

When the filmed was first given to the MPAA, it received an NC-17 rating, due to: sadistic sequences of bloody grisly violence and graphic sexual content throughout. Most of the violence and sex scenes were trimmed short (including a castration scene of Shia's character) to achieve an R-rating: ''for strong disturbing bloody violence and gore throughout including grisly images, strong sexual content, graphic nudity, pervasive language and some drug use - all involving teens. ''This film also features around 600+ uses of the F-word, ranking it second (behind the documentary of the same name about the history and usage of the word) and second in total usage for a scripted motion picture.

On Aug. 24th, an official teaser was released on YouTube, revealing a unseen assailant putting on black leather gloves and then opening a vault only showing a chainsaw. The person then starts it shortly before the camera lingers on the killer's concealed face saying: "Groovy". The teaser ended with no title.

==Visual effects==

The film itself features over 500 VFX shots.