Moustroll
Good movie but grossly overrated
Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Ariella Broughton
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
hellholehorror
This definitely is not original. The story has been seen many times. On the plus side the cast is great, the effects gory and the atmosphere quite good. It is very predictable from beginning to end but this makes it better somehow. The scares are silly but they do make you jump and that is all that you want from this type of film. Overall it is an unoriginal classic slasher before the swish Scream (1996) ages.
Bodo
Although Friday THE 13TH has more fame, THE BURNING — with an almost identical premise — is just as much a classic movie of the slasher genre. It has hypnotic 80's synth tunes combined with a gruesome killer and an iconic weapon: The massive garden scissors that we also see on the movie's beautiful poster art.The story, although predictable, isn't all that bad, and the characters, although somewhat stereotypical, are interesting enough to keep you going. Most importantly, some of the scenes involving the killer are genuinely frightening, with some pretty effective jump scares. Add to this make-up effects by Tom Savini and you have a round package of gore and horror that has aged well. I think THE BURNING is as suspenseful today as it was in the 80's.
Daniel Caedmon
I don't understand why people like this movie. The only good part is the music done by the keyboardist Rick Wakeman from the 1970's English rock band Yes. It's a complete rip off of Friday the 13th. If you watch this movie, you'll see a lot more talking than actual slashing. I saw this movie on youtube and had to keep fast forwarding it to the good parts. There are hardly any good parts. I even know horror movie lovers who don't like this film. Such a disappointment.
Realrockerhalloween
Gather around the campfire as I tell you the urban legend of the caretaker Cropsy out for revenge against the kids who disfigured him.Armed with a pair of shears he returns back to the place of his suffering to find one camp counselor who effected his past Todd.Now Todd must stop the madman before He wipes out the camp and disappears for parts unknown.The plot mostly takes clues from Friday the 13th with the revenge plot, campfire pranks and oversexed teenagers picked off one by one. Yet the picture works its huge caste to it's advantage by setting them off in different directions and activities that feel like a summer camp.Still I wish the script had been a little tighter to smooth out the ruff edges and the ending had been reshot to deliver a big showdown instead of anti-climatic jargon that ends before it begins. Which is a disappoint since it was all the suspenseful Chase scenes and scary imagery promised something big.Tom Savini, the master of special effects, never fails to deliver the real life liked gore and bloody body parts that leave psychology scars.You'll see a few familiar faces before they became big time stars or forgotten by time.Not the worst horror has offered to the franchise, just mediocre. You aren't missing any revolutionary ideas.
