The Piece Maker Wants to Take Us Back to the 80s
Steve Barton
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Other than Justin Russell’s 2012 effort, The Sleeper, and the brilliant WNUF Halloween Special from Chris LaMartina and company, few films have been able to pull off that true 80s vibe. The filmmaker trying to recreate this era of slasher films usually ends up missing the mark, sometimes by just a fraction of an inch.
I will say this, though… The Piece Maker is off to a clever start or… is it just something that has slipped through the cracks and surfaced?
Via the film’s YouTube description:
[Here’s the] sales trailer for The Piece Maker, which was intended to be an Orion Pictures release in the summer of ’86. This trailer was commissioned to help sell the film to the overseas video market in an attempt to boost the production’s minimalist budget and become profitable before release. 1985 Proved to be a disappointing year at the box office for Orion, resulting in many of the company’s upcoming productions being halted, including this one. Subsequently, the movie was scrapped from Orion’s development slate and was never made.
Even more compelling is this bit from the Orion Pictures Wikipedia page (which we take with a grain of salt as anyone can update a page on Wikipedia, including a filmmaker looking to spread awareness and create mystery surrounding their project)…
In early May of 2017, an original video sales trailer for a horror film entitled The Piece Maker surfaced on the internet. The film was allegedly on Orion’s development slate for 1985 with an intended summer release the following year. The trailer was put together in hopes to sell the film to the international home video market and put the production into profit before [its] pending theatrical release in the States. However, by the end of 1985, many of Orion’s productions were halted, including The Piece Maker. The film was eventually abandoned, never officially announced and until recently completely unknown.
Now, here’s the rub… It states that the trailer for The Piece Maker surfaced online in May 2017 and links to the YouTube video you see below… which was uploaded on July 4, 2017. This makes the above mention suspect. But maybe when it first surfaced, it wasn’t on YouTube. We’ve looked. We can’t find it elsewhere. Can you?
So there you have it… Real? Fake? The only thing we know for certain is that this whole thing is fun, and I’d watch that flick in a heartbeat. Tell us what you think below.
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