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The Burning
At summer camp, some teenagers pull a prank on the camp's caretaker, Cropsy. But the joke goes terribly wrong, and the teens leave Cropsy for dead after setting him on fire. Later, the caretaker comes back, lurks around an upstate New York summer camp bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement.
23 September 1959, Newark, New Jersey, USA
2 April 1942, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, USA
5 May 1965, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
28 May 1957, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
1954
2 December 1966, Buffalo, New York, USA
27 November 1963, Chicago, Illinois, USA
8 June 1961, Neptune, New Jersey, USA
October 15, 2008
One of the more inspired early-'80s slasher pics.
August 11, 2007
It's a legitimately ugly movie; it gets under your skin.
February 06, 2014
Really works to its own beat, and is a ball from beginning to end.
October 07, 2007
It's dated and sort of dull but there's some amazing gore and the new blu-ray makes it shine.
August 22, 2013
It's a movie very much like Tolkien's writing: if you don't discover it in junior high, you'll never appreciate it the way it was meant to be appreciated again.
February 05, 2017
at a time when the subgenre was undergoing a boom & the market was saturated... The Burning does little to distinguish itself from the spate of other slashers with which it was vying for screen space
August 17, 2009
One of the unexpected horror gems of the 1980s.