RThe Burning

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500M
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Play Time: 91 mins
Horror
The Burning

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. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidentally burned him.

Status: Released (1981-05-08)
Screen:Harvey Weinstein, Tony Maylam, Brad Grey
Productions: Miramax, The Cropsy Venture, Filmways Pictures
Production Countries: United States of America, Canada
Spoken Languages: English
The Burning
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Wuchak

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Decent “Friday the 13th” knockoff This came out a week after “Friday the 13th Part 2” in 1981 and contains all the staples of that blossoming franchise: disfigured killer, iconic weapon (in this case, garden shears), summer camp, camp counselors, a prank gone wrong, swimming anti ....

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CinemaSerf

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MGM, the Weinstein brothers and none other than Corky Burger have joined forces to bring us this rather weak and derivative attempt at fraternity-horror. "Cropsy", the pretty unpleasant caretaker at a lakeside holiday camp is the victim of a rather cruel prank perpetrated by some spo ....

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