Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006)
ThinkFilm

Description

Every fear you’ve ever felt. Every evil you’ve witnessed. Every nightmare you’ve ever known… have come together for the first time in one film. Going to Pieces is the ultimate anthology that takes you on a horrifying journey through your favorite slasher films including Halloween, Psycho, Friday the 13th, Prom Night, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream and When a Stranger Calls. Interviews with horror icons John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Rob Zombie, Tom Savini and many more guide you through a series of gruesome scenes from classic films and recent hits.

Tags

Slasher movies

Collected reviews and ratings

8.0 DVD Talk | Brian Orndorf

Since horror films are traditionally overlooked from a historical perspective, "Going to Pieces" is a terrific encapsulation of the era and the product. It's a lean encyclopedia, but for fans, it touches upon some titles and celebrities that have been long forgotten.
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8.0 Amazon user reviews

Anyone who enjoys the slasher genre, horror, or even film history might want to check this film out. It's fast and fun.
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7.8 DVD Verdict | Daniel MacDonald

While subtitled as, "The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film," this is a film made by fans, for fans, and very little is said or presented that could be called critical of the genre. Because of this, the film has limited value as a documentary, with its tone bordering on propaganda at times.
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6.0 filmcritic.com | Christopher Null

I'd say this is a film best-suited for someone with absolutely no cultural awareness, someone who'd not only never seen a horror movie but who'd never even heard of such a thing. His mind would be blown.
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5.0 DVD Town | Tyler Shainline

With only a tiny handful of feature-length horror documentaries out there, sometimes you've got to be happy with what you've got, even when they just plain get things wrong.
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