The Burning Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tony Maylam
Genres: Horror
Rating:
Apart from early appearances by Jason_Alexander and Holly_Hunter, an interesting score by Rick_Wakeman, and some typically effective work by effects icon Tom_Savini, this slasher film is also among the more frightening of its kind. The plot concerns a summer-camp caretaker named Cropsy (Lou_David) who is horribly burned by mischievous teen campers during a botched practical joke. Years later, he leaves the hospital as a disfigured gloppy mess with an axe (actually, hedgeclippers) to grind. After dispatching a local prostitute, Cropsy heads out to the wilderness to terrorize a group of campers. They're the usual bunch of horny, obnoxious teenagers, but there are some interesting performances by Larry_Joshua as a mean-spirited bully and Brian_Backer (of Fast Times at Ridgemont High) as a put-upon nerd. The campers visit an island and, in a scene heavily cut by the ratings board prior to release, several of them die in a horrifying mass slaughter aboard a boat. The remaining teens are brutally picked off one by one until Cropsy is finally defeated. Robert Firsching, Rovi
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