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The Burning
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0027616085535
Format: Color, NTSC, Mono, Anamorphic
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: DM108553D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Running Time: 91 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: May 08, 1981
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Editorial Review:
Oh, those crazy days of slasher films, when every summer camp became a potential slaughterhouse. The Burning was one of the flood of movies that followed the success of Friday the 13th, and it's more notable today for an unexpected roster of talent than for its success as a horror movie. You will note that the opening titles feature the unusual credit of "Created and Produced by Harvey Weinstein," and sure enough, this is the first feature film bearing the name of the future Hollywood mogul. Let's acknowledge that Weinstein's instincts were shrewd, since this junky thing fit right into the kill-the-teenagers trend after Friday the 13th, and thus a safe way to get a return on investment. We're at Camp Blackstone, where a disfigured loony, still sizzling after getting burned by unhappy campers years earlier, exacts his revenge on the empty-headed current crop. Among the campers are future Seinfeld star Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, and (in a smaller part) Holly Hunter. There's a vintage early-'80s synthesizer score by Rick Wakeman, but the real star of the movie is effects whiz Tom Savini (Dawn of the Dead), who does his bloody best with the murders. We don't care much about the teenagers, but students of gore will savor the throat-cuttings and the finger-loppings. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Surprisingly Good Camp Slasher Flick
A group of campers play a deservedly mean prank on an abusive counselor that accidentally results in his tragic burning. Years later, the disfigured, demented man known as Cropsy heads back to camp to take revenge.
Cleverly based on the old campfire terror tales of tradition, "The Burning" may sound like a flat-out rip-off of "Friday the 13th". Well, the filmmakers claim they had this story BEFORE "Friday the 13th", and maybe they did, because it somehow feels like a better movie than ... Read More
Rating:  - 3 1/2, a little dissapointed but still a good, brutal slasher.
after first discovering this flick i've been eagerly wanting to see this.savini created the gore effects so i new i was in for a treat and the film had a reputation for being very violent and brutal. after watching the burning i have to say i'm a little dissapointed. the film is entertaining and quite gory and thanks to this dvd being uncut the kills and gore are fairly graphic and drawn out, but the movie moves alittle slow and the kills are oddly spaced through the film. 5 people being killed in ... Read More
Rating:  - A Classic Killer In The Woods Slasher Film
I remember seeing the Australian video cover to this film in a service station many years ago, and it was the now ultra-rare cover with "This movie has contents which may offend" and one of the girls getting her throat slit by the maniac killer. I HAVE this video cover somewhere at home, just want to know how much it's worth. The back of the cover has a deleted scene on it where the remaining survivors are coming out of the woods to go into the helicopter. But on the movie itself, it's an old fashioned ... Read More
Rating:  - SOOOOOOOOOO SORRY I BOUGHT THIS ONE!!!!!!
This was such a lousy movie! Being the HUGE horror fan that I am - I had never heard of this one - (that SHOULD have been a clue) But, after reading the reviews, I was encouraged . . . Compared to the old greats like the original Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street this had such promise, but there were so many characters to keep track of - (NOT that I CARED about any of them) and the end was soooo lame (with that stupid looking gigantic pink head) in the mind shaft or where he was ... Read More
Rating: - Not even worth One Star
The only thing worthwhile about this movie is watching Jason Alexander attempting to play the part of the cool kid, ladies man jock character. The funniest casting in horror film history.
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