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Now this is a great slasher movie.They deffinatly dont make them like this anymore.the effects by tom savini are excellent.the pacing is wonderful and it keeps you on the edge of your seat.trust me you wont soon forget the burning,especially the raft scene..OMG.if your a horror fan you must own this dvd its incredible.if only they made todays slashers like this id go to the movies alot more often.
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Believe it or not this is my first slasher movie, so I don't have the knowledge to give you a doctoral thesis on the genesis of the faceless killer or anything. I never really liked slasher movies, at least what I saw in the trailers. They just seemed...tedious. I don't know why, I like all kinds of genre films, some of which my friends won't even watch. I just never got into them. But I saw that Jason Alexander, George Costanza himself, was in this film and I had to see it. How could anyone resist Costanza vs. a Slasher? I was hoping maybe he'd use the old "Jerk Store" routine on the slasher, even though that hadn't been written for years yet.
Well sir, I was pleasantly surprised. I don't think this movie speaks for the entire genre of slasher flicks, but this one accounted for itself pretty well. It moved along pretty briskly even though the killer doesn't do any serious damage until maybe 45 minutes into the movie. Until that point there is some decent suspense and plenty of nubile young hi-jinx. Larry Joshua plays the musclehead Glazer, sex hound and dead from the neck up, as the arrogant and bullying buffoon you want to see get his. Brian Backer, who also played Mark Ratner in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, plays the creepy loner Alfred, a symbol of teen angst and alienation. Fisher Stevens plays the dart gun toting Woodstock and Leah Ayres and Carrick Glenn provide some of the aforementioned nubile-osity. (???) Jason Alexander is pretty funny as Dave, the wisecracking camp porn connection.
He's more self-assured than Costanza, maybe because of that full head of hair, and I couldn't really imagine his character as a young George Costanza, but he's still funny.
We know just all we need to know about the killer and his back-story. He's given a quick and dirty motivation to wipe out sexy young campers (don't worry, Costanza isn't sexy) and then sent to work. He takes most of them out with some pruning shears and folks these are some very special pruning shears. They look and cut like they are made of adamantium or Excalibur reforged. I mean he slices through fingers, limbs, skulls and trees like they're lemon meringue pie. And he's pretty creative in the way he cuts them up. The gore is very effective thanks to Tom Savini and the raft scene is downright shocking and brutal.
The title refers to the way the killer was brutalized by some young campers years ago (in a prank gone wrong! How many great villains come about THAT way?) One of the campers that burned ol Cropsy grew up into one of the camps current counselors, and it is this person the killer, Cropsy, is primarily after. The entire story comes full circle when the killer uses one of those mini-flamethrowers that some gardeners use to burn weeds, to blow torch the counselor, giving him a taste of hot propane justice.
Like I said, I was pleasantly surprised by this movie and the best complement I can pay it is that because I liked it I am now interested in checking out some more movies in this strange little genre.
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This movie was a pleasant surprise. In some ways, it follows the standard "revenge on sex-crazed teens" premise of the Friday the 13th movies and their knock-offs. But this movie does it in a way that is better than those knock-offs, and in my opinion better than the Jason flicks. While the sheer strength of the villain and the many uses of the hedge clippers he uses may be a little hard to swallow, everything else about this movie is pretty realistic. The campers aren't as stupid as the victims in most slasher movies; the final showdown is believable as well.
The thing that really makes this movie stand out is the suspense. This movie has many "red herring" scares and jumps, and interchanges them perfectly with the real scares so that the viewer never knows what is going to happen next. I would like to see a remake of this film with some higher production values, but I doubt they could recapture the thrills of this film.
As a side note, Jason Alexander (AKA George Costanza from "Seinfeld") with a full head of hair is a great addition, as is the sex-crazed, slightly insane GLAZER.
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The Burning came out before Friday the 13th or did it? Its always going to be a debate about that. The film is a by the books, maniac in the woods story. I found the movie to be very boring in the middle but there was awesome killing scenes that made up for it, even though there wasnt alot. The pervert actully lives in this film! I recommend this to horror fans but dont expect nothing speical.
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When I was a kid I would go to the video store and browse the horror section renting one whole row a week. I would weed out the ones that stood out to me, putting them away in my memory bank. Their was one slasher flick besides "Maniac" that really stood out to me, "The Burning". This film is a flawless and timeless piece of horror film history. The acting is way above par, the script is excellent, and Tom Savini is on top of his game as usual. I am so glad that this is on dvd, now maybe these new teenyboppers can see what a good slasher film looks like, and skip the remake garbage.
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