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The Burning is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Tony Maylam, and starring Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer, Larry Joshua, and Lou David. Its plot follows a summer camp caretaker who is horribly burnt from a prank gone wrong, where he seeks vengeance at a nearby summer camp years later.
May 8, 1981 · With Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer, Larry Joshua. 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 disfigurement.
- (22K)
- Horror
- Tony Maylam
- 1981-05-08
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- Tony Maylam
- R
- 12
Movie Info. Synopsis At summer camp, some teenagers pull a prank on the camp's caretaker, Cropsy (Lou David). But the joke goes terribly wrong, and the teens leave Cropsy for dead after setting ...
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- Tony Maylam
- R
- Brian Matthews
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The film opens at a summer camp, where a group of boys are planning to pull a prank on the weird, alcoholic caretaker, Cropsy during the middle of the night. They sneak into his cabin and set a rotting skull on fire, only to have Cropsy wake up and accidentally knock the skull onto his gas tank, bursting flames all over the cabin. The horrified boy...
Brian Matthews as ToddKeith Mandell as Young ToddBrian Backer as AlfredLeah Ayres as MichelleThe movie was produced by the then new company Miramax Films run by Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein. Harvey wrote and produced while Bob co-wrote the screenplay. With a budget of $1,500,000, they set out to capitalize on the booming slasher film craze that was soon to fizzle out. They also hired makeup effects maestro Tom Savini who ...
A soundtrack album featuring Rick Wakeman's score was released on LP in 1981 in Germany and shortly after in the United States and Japan. It features both the music from the film and remixes by Wakeman, known as The Wakeman Variations. On February 26, 2007, the soundtrack was released in the United Kingdom, for the first time on CD.
The Burning (1981) at the Internet Movie DatabaseThe Burning (film) at WikipediaA legend of terror isn't a campfire story anymore! Overview. 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.
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...
