Reviews of The Burning 1981
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This is a lot more comedic in nature compared to Friday the 13th but you can definitely see the similarities. I had fun with it though. Some good death scenes and gore. Transfer looks awesome on Blu ray. Another great addition to the Scream Factory catalogue!
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Easily one of the greatest slashers ever made. The best thing is that it doesn't dwell on the back story and try elaborate on it, simple and effective. My god is the gore good too, some of Savini's best work. Shame the shout factory blu ray gives the film away in the artwork and the blu ray menu.
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Summer camp. 1981. Big hair. Short shorts. Knee high socks. Canoes. Swimming. Baseball. Sex. S'mores. Sex. Campfires. Urban legends. Psychotic deformed murderers.
And more sex.
That is the humid and nostalgic atmosphere for The Burning, a 1981 slasher film that has become somewhat of a hidden classic among the slasher genre. It got buried underneath its competing slasher Titan, Friday The 13th. When you put the two films side by side its both easy and hard to see why one…
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Undeniably generic attempt to capitalize on the slasher/Friday the 13th craze of the day but with a darker, more effective tone than most of its now-forgotten peers. Better than I remembered.
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a great summer camp slasher, the bluray looks great.
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Of the second-tier slasher movies from Back In The Day - the ones that aren't really iconic, that didn't lead into a slew of sequels, whose villain didn't become a household name - this is likely the best one. It takes the setting of the first two Friday The 13th movies and really fleshes it out into a functioning summer camp, and throws in Tom Savini, and lots of actors who would become, if not big names, then certainly recognizable, playing characters that are about as fleshed-out as this genre allows.
As a cheerfully basic old-timey slasher movie, it's hard to beat.
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I consider myself a pretty big fan of horror films, and even if I’m always game to give into my baser senses and watch them, the slasher has always been near the bottom of the preferential pack. The distilled hypocrisy of their formulas always irked me, but at the same time from a cultural standpoint they remain juicily revealing. Like almost every genre, my top picks rank among my favorites. Those would be Black Christmas, Sleepaway Camp and Alice, Sweet…
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Considered by many to be a Friday the 13th knockoff, this early 80s slasher has its charm though. Makeup effects legend Tom Savini shows off his gory skills by cutting off fingers, stabbing throats and slicing heads. Stereotypical slasher tropes work well, heartbeat music, killer POV, teenage sexual promiscuity equals death.
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I like ugly, drunk child molesters as much as the next guy, but a dude who for years has pickled his sheets in whiskey has no call to get butthurt when the flaming skull a bunch of teens placed on his nightstand as a prank ends up setting his bed aflame. (And if only the movie was as kinky as that previous sentence made it sound.)
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A Haiku Review:
Typical slasher.
jason Alexander's hair.
Stop going to camp!
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