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The Burning

The Burning

1981Movie⏱️ 1h 31mR
Horror
6.2
IMDB Rating
24,666 votes

Abusive former summer camp caretaker Cropsy, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong five years earlier, lurks around upstate NY summer Camp Stonewater with garden shears and bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfi...

Director
Tony Maylam
Writers
Harvey Weinstein, Tony Maylam, Brad Grey
Stars
Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer
Release Date
May 8, 1981
Language
English
Country
United States, Canada
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Brian Matthews
Brian Matthews
as Todd
Leah Ayres
Leah Ayres
as Michelle
Brian Backer
Brian Backer
as Alfred
Larry Joshua
Larry Joshua
as Glazer
Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander
as Dave
Ned Eisenberg
Ned Eisenberg
as Eddy
Carrick Glenn
Carrick Glenn
as Sally
Carolyn Houlihan
Carolyn Houlihan
as Karen
Fisher Stevens
Fisher Stevens
as Woodstock
Lou David
Lou David
as Cropsy

💰 Box Office

$315
Worldwide Gross

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Color
Filming Location
Buffalo, New York, USA
Production
Cropsy Venture, Miramax, The Cropsy Venture

🏷️ Keywords

summer campprankmasked killerprank goes wrongslasher

🎯 Categories

B-HorrorDark ComedyMonster HorrorSlasher HorrorSplatter HorrorTeen HorrorHorror

⭐ Featured Review

A rip off better than the original! One of the best slasher movies of the 1980s.
by Infofreak2002-12-17

"There's no disguising the fact that 'The Burning' is a rip off of 'Friday the 13th' so I won't bother arguing about it. The most important thing is that 'The Burning' has more likeable characters and they are killed off in gorier and more flamboyant ways. This makes it one of the few knock offs that I can think of that surpasses the original. The thing that really makes this outstanding isn't the handful of actors in the cast of unknowns that went on to bigger and better things (Jason Alexander, Holly Hunter,etc.), but Tom Savini's realistic an..."

💡 Did You Know?

The concept of the film (originally scripted as "The Cropsy Maniac") is based on a campfire story told at summer camps in and around New Jersey and upstate New York. The story is still in circulation and is also the basis for the documentary Cropsey (2009), though this film is not referenced in the documentary.

📖 Synopsis

Abusive former summer camp caretaker Cropsy, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong five years earlier, lurks around upstate NY summer Camp Stonewater with garden shears and bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfi...