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A documentary on the history of the slasher film.A documentary on the history of the slasher film.A documentary on the history of the slasher film.
Amy Holden Jones
- Self
- (as Amy Holden-Jones)
Anthony Timpone
- Self
- (as Tony Timpone)
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- TriviaExecutive Producer Michael Ruggerio had previously worked on The American Nightmare (2000), one of the documentaries that inspired Going To Pieces. He always said he wanted to do a sequel about the Slasher movies of the 1980's. He happened to be good friends with author Adam Rockoff. After producer Rudy Scalese optioned the book rights to Going to Pieces and befriended Adam Rockoff, Adam made an introduction to Ruggerio who was now an executive at STARZ and championed the documentary to be made.
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John Carpenter: New talents come along, old talents fade away.
- ConnectionsFeatures The War of the Worlds (1953)
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I am a huge horror movie and slasher fan and I was shocked to see this on my Starz On Demand list. It is pretty good, but I think they try to cover a little too much ground in its short running time to really go into one subject too much. I have seen a lot of the movies that are discussed and it also introduced me to a few that I wasn't familiar with that I can now try to watch. It is good for an introductory course on slasher films and I seriously could have watched another hour's worth of material, but I understand why they had to trim to a shorter time. It does one of my least favorite things in documentaries though, when the subtitles would come up showing a person's name and what film they worked on, the font was very small and it was only on the screen for a second, so I had to keep rewinding to see the name's of people that I didn't recognize (which admittedly wasn't a lot, but still.) If you are a fan of the genre, this is a good little documentary to get you acquainted with some classic movies and maybe introduce a few new titles to track down.
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- Also known as
- Going to Pieces - el éxito y la caída del cine de destazamiento
- Filming locations
- Los Angeles, California, USA(Hollywood Forever Cemetary)
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- $600,000 (estimated)
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By what name was Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006) officially released in Canada in English?
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