Brian Backer, Brian Matthews, Carolyn Houlihan
DVD Release Date: September 11, 2007
Stats: 392 reviews
One of the seemingly endless films to be 'Banned' by the British Board of Film Classification in the mid 1980's, "The Burning" has managed to find itself back on British shelves in the presumably less censorship-dominated 1990's. Or maybe not. For, what British audiences are 'All...( read more)
One of my favorite early slashers, The Burning boasts impressive gore effects littered amongst its Friday the 13th-esque story. So the characters fall flat and the plot is non-existent - just accept The Burning for what it is and you'll have a great time with it.
Didn't quite live up to it's hype as the great, grotesque slasher film that no one has ever seen. Still, viewed through the eyes of 1981, I can see how that reputation grew. Fun to see early roles for Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, and especially Holly Hunter.
If you like Freddy, Jason, The Shape etc. then you'll love this! Gory and sometimes sickening, but always effective.
Similar to Friday The 13th but much better. The muisc score is by the famous rock keyboard player Rick Wakeman.
it sort of like "friday the 13th" cause of a horror camp. an maniac killer named cropsy who is an caretaker at the camp who accident a fire by a teen prank but he is survived. he been release hospital for 5 years and he somewhere at the camp for a kill.
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This early slasher film is in my opinion far superior to Friday the 13th.
First off "Cropsy"(The horribly disfigured caretaker burned in an accident caused by the teen campers" is much more terrifying than Pamela Vorhees.
The raft scene is one of the most notorious in slasher history and very deserving.
Tom Savini's FX work is exceptional and stands up to today's standards.
The people I see talking it down are of the CGI fed generation that would rather see a semi cartoon looking effect than a real in your face FX,.
Plus nothing beats the somewhat grainy gritty feel of an 80's slasher flick some of the newer ones can seem so clinical in comparison.
This movie was so slow it took from the first victim for the next one to get kill 40 mins.The best scene was the raft scene.There's nothing to the story,so predictable that don't even surprise no one at the end.Pointless just few bloody scenes & a stupid ending.I was running out of patience with this film.
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