The Burning
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Movie Reviews of The Burning
Movie Review: My favorite summer camp slasher flick from the 80's
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie back in 1981 at a rundown theatre in Chicago. I wasn't old enough to get in myself so I talked my mother into seeing it with me. Mom regretted it but I loved it. Not only is this a film that stars the dork that played "Rat" in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but you also have Fisher Stevens the dork from Short Circuit, Jason Alexander the dork from Seinfeld, Holly Hunter is running around grabbing screen time here and there, Tom Savini's finest splatter effects, and the whole thing was produced and created by noneother than the Weinstein brothers in the first Miramax production ever. The Burning is a fun 80's slasher flick that has it all. T and A, actors in their mid 20's playing teenagers, a score ripped off of Halloween, and a deformed killer bent on getting even with the camp counsellors that caused his horrible deformities. Released from the hospital after a cruel prank burned his flesh off, Cropsy, the despised handyman of Camp Blackfoot, returns to the woods for revenge. There he finds the old grounds ripe with the horniest bunch of campers since Meatballs, which he hacks to death with a pair of huge garden shears. This movie is awesome. To be watched with a group of friends on a double bill with Sleepaway Camp.Movie Review: "Gather around the campfire to die"
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, so maybe a five star rating for The Burning is a bit lofty...But c'mon. In the grand scheme of horror movies, this is a very good one that rises high above the endless barrage of clones that came from its time. It's your basic camp themed slasher that takes more than a few pages from the Friday the 13th handbook, yet it ends up developing a dark and unique tone on its own.
The grim results of a prank gone wrong leave a summer camp care taker burnt to an irreparable crisp. After the hospital releases him to the world as a burnt freak of nature, he returns to camp to claim revenge on the kids and their shenanigans...Even though the kids that burned him have long since moved on and the current group he terrorizes had nothing to do with the incident...But we're suspending belief here anyhow.
The Burning is a simple, gory, cheesy, and easy to digest slasher movie, AKA fun. We also get an excellent music score from Rick Wakeman, and gore effects from Tom Savini, never a bad thing. Put simply, if you love horror and haven't seen The Burning yet, do yourself a favor and click "order" right now. This is an often overlooked classic that since its time of release has become a true horror staple.
Movie Review: Cut-throat horror!
Summary: 5 Stars
Long ago, a janitor named Cropsy was burned horribly by a bad prank that went wrong leaving him disfigured. Five years later, he comes back to the same camp where he worked as now he seeks revenge with a huge pair of shears which he uses to cut his victims in pieces with it but can the campers survive a vacation to hell?
Entertaining and gory to the max slasher movie that is one of the most overlooked slasher movies ever! Tom Savini's make-up effects are mindblowing even by today's standards as i think he is the master of all make-up artists. The film co-stars Holly Hunter and Jason Alexander before their major film careers, there's some incredible graphic violence such as the infamous raft massacre sequence with more of the gore that was cut out and restored on this DVD. The music score is quite chilling as well, it's not for the faint of heart but a must have for fans of "Sleepaway Camp" and "Friday The 13th" alike.
The DVD has some cool extras like two featurettes especially on Tom Savini's make-up effects, photo gallery and a trailer.
Movie Review: Creepy Camp Slasher
Summary: 5 Stars
The Burning verges on being a classic slasher flick and boasts some of Tom Savini's most memorable effects ... most notably a surprise attack on a raft full of kids that is sure to amp up the heartrate. The characters are more likeable than those in the Friday the 13th series, including some recognizable faces in their earliest roles. Fans of early 1980's slasher films, arguably the golden era of the subgenre, will not be disappointed in this film even if, as he reveals in the commentary, the director feels it falls apart in the third act due to formulaic editing on the part of the producers. Nevertheless, The Burning is a fun if by-the-book slasher. Really, the only orignal aspect involves a nubile female victim ... who is killed because she chooses not to have sex. Had she stayed and put out, Cropsy would not have gotten her when he did. So in this way The Burning plays against the notion that vice precede slice and dice, even if it later reenforces it after a love scene that ends with poetic justice for the film's bully.Movie Review: One the lost "Gems" of the 80's "slasher" genre
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been waiting for this one to hit DVD for a while now. As a "slasher" movie this one is a "cut"(I know had to say it) and still holds up well today.
Old man Cropsy is a boozes hound and works at a summer camp spreading his own kind of cheer among the kids. So much so, that one night the kids play a trick on him that goes wrong and burns him very badly. After long stays in many hospitals he leaves and goes out into a world that finds him repulsive(one hooker pays for the unkind words) and he decides that all campers should DIE!!!!!!!
Flash to a group of campers(Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, and a few more well known faces) and we have the plot rolling. After a raft trip goes wrong Cropsy really starts to "cut" the group down with garden sheers.
I know it sounds and is a little like "Friday The 13th" but it is well made and plays better than the series and is much more fun.
If you like slasher movies and want a good time catch this "GEM"! Well worth the time!!!!!