Just like Friday the 13th 1&2 this is a true Horror classic. Set at a summer camp this is another fun as hell slasher flick & one of the best ever made right at that time 1981 when so many CLASSIC Horror films seemed to come out!!! 80s was a beautiful time for Horror & here is one of the most fun with some Amazing gruesome scenes,the killer looks Awesome & the cast is great fun.No need to go on about story & all as it's simply just a great well made Slasher with beautiful locations & scenes!!! Just enjoy

The Burning (1981) is an instant classic slasher horror flick, puts most of horror movies today to shame. This movie come out the same year as did Friday the 13th Part 2 my favorite horror film. They are so many horror films in 1981 I haven't hear, see or they are forgotten. This movie however surprised me. "It ripped off Friday the 13th" no it didn't! This movie was different, it was a revenge film but it was different than Friday the 13th. It is an original story not a copycat of other slasher films. Honestly I think this movie is much way better horror movie than Friday the 13th Part 2. This movie has a different story, it is not that bad and it is a good slasher movie and it just become my favorite horror film.The story follows campers from summer camp goes with canoe trip to Devil's Creek once there they become targets, from a former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong, with a pair of hedge clippers to take revenge on the campers. Once there they are trapped while assailant is stalking them and kills them one by one. I enjoy this film it is not a bad slasher horror film it is instant classic and really puts most of horror films to shame. It has a lot of nudity with girls been naked and sexy. This days I don't see any naked girls in any slasher horror films today. They don't make horror movies like this one in the woods today. Back in the 80's was more work than today. Tom Savini from Dawn of the Dead makes special effect for more gory blood and they work. Just like he did special effects for Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter and Dawn of the Dead he makes effects for this movie and the gory kills really works. There is a lot of scares and twists in here that keeps getting you interested and intense. It doesn't allowed you to stop watching it. Friday the 13th part 2, My Bloody Valentine, The Burning, The Howling and American Werewolf in London are really in my top five favorite films from 1981 in horror genre. Why can't we get movies like this?Directed and original story by Tony Maylam who directed the film really good. I miss movies like this today and I think it is a really good movie. Brian Matthews, Brian Backer, Carrick Glenn and Carolyn Houlihan were believable at acting and they were really good. 8/10 this movie is an instant classic in the horror genre from the 80's for me.

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.

Time travel exists! This took me right back to my youth when Friday night was video night and you'd trek around the stores to find the best deals and movies. You had to work for your entertainment then, there was no pay-per-view or the internet. Me and my mates would walk miles to get the right films. Friday night was horror. Though I never did see this one until now it's so reminiscent of the trash we used to watch that I felt as though I had been transported back in time.This is the "Death" camp story that so many movie companies released after the success of Friday 13th. Though this doesn't come anywhere near it does have one hell of a cast, including Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, Holly Hunter, Ned Eisenberg, Brian Backer, and Leah Ayers. It even has a soundtrack by The Wizard of the Keyboards Rick Wakeman. The special effects are designed and created by Tom Savini.Shame that with all this talent that the story lets them down; and who names a psychotic killer "Cropsy" didn't the writers see "Crapsy" just waiting to be shouted by the critics? Even though the story isn't a direct rip-off of Friday 13th it's along the same lines, enough so that comparisons can be drawn. However, it's the inconsistencies that made it irksome to me. Especially the scene where the canoes have gone so they decide to take a lot of time to find wood and build a raft. If it takes that much time then how did Crapsy, sorry, Cropsy get there before them... on foot? Give the audience a little respect.There are also quite a few dubious directional contretemps. Such as the obvious doctored still in the end "Mine" sequence. More so with the raft and canoe scene where the actions, reactions, and the outcome is totally unbelievable; though I shook my head is dismay and laughed, I did like the idea of it.Even with these niggling elements, it's still entertaining. I believe this is because of the lightness that permeates most of the film. It's seventy percent good-natured romp with ten percent seriousness and twenty percent tensity. It's because of this I would recommend this as a starter for a horrorfest, it'll set you up nicely for a more fulfilling main course.