GOING TO PIECES: THE RISE & FALL OF THE SLASHER FILM [2006]

Going To Pieces is a noticeably low budget documentary about the history of slasher flicks, beginning with Psycho then tackling Halloween, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Scream, Saw and just about everything else in between.
It covers many eras of the genre, the impact each groundbreaking film made on the culture, it's audiences and the films that followed it, all of which usually skewered it into the ground with overkill until the next era would reinvent it.  It's actually quite a captivating crash course on the subject, once you get past the horribly filmed interviews.  It looks as if the cameraman had never filmed anything before and wanted to go for maximum creativity, resulting in overly distracting shots that take away from the spoken words quite a bit.  It's an amateurish love letter to the genre that covers the material with more passion than intelligence and that's just fine with me.

3 latex heads out of 5