The Burning
A legend of terror isn't a campfire story anymore!
A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidentally burned him.
- 6.2
- 1981
- Released
- 1h 31m
Brian Matthews
Todd
Leah Ayres
Michelle
Brian Backer
Alfred
Larry Joshua
Glazer
Jason Alexander
Dave
Ned Eisenberg
Eddy
Carrick Glenn
SallyCarolyn Houlihan
Karen
Fisher Stevens
Woodstock
Lou David
CropsyShelley Bruce
TigerSarah Chodoff
BarbaraBonnie Deroski
Marnie
Holly Hunter
SophieKevi Kendall
DianeK.C. Townsend
HookerJohn Tripp
Camp Counselor
Mansoor Najee-Ullah
OrderlyJerry McGee
Intern
Released
en
$1,500,000.00
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- #woods
- #revenge
- #burned alive
- #murder
- #camp
- #slasher
- #maniac
- #death
- #campfire
- #psycho killer
- #campfire story
- #voyeurism
- #video nasty
- #prank gone wrong
Reviews
MGM, the Weinstein brothers and none other than Corky Burger have joined forces to bring us this rather weak and derivative attempt at fraternity-horror. "Cropsy", the pretty unpleasant caretaker at a lakeside holiday camp is the victim of a rather cruel prank perpetrated by some spoilt, immature, youth. Scoot on a few years and this now heavily scarred and somewhat narked individual is out for re
Decent “Friday the 13th” knockoff This came out a week after “Friday the 13th Part 2” in 1981 and contains all the staples of that blossoming franchise: disfigured killer, iconic weapon (in this case, garden shears), summer camp, camp counselors, a prank gone wrong, swimming antics, deep woods sexual frolics, death during (or after) sex, a secret hideout for the killer, semi-nekkid or fully ne