Diary entries forThe Burning
The Burning
Shocktober 32/31 Very fun slasher with young Costanza, cool Savini effects, and a genuinely entertaining quality teen cast. If you're currently watching/loving American Horror Story 1984 like I am, there's a lot to like and appreciate from watching a slasher of the times like this
The Burning
Pretty eh, even with the killin'.
The Burning
my second time watching and its really no better or worse than friday the 13th
The Burning
Film #5 of June 2017 Scavenger Hunt A Film Released By Shout Or Scream Factory My favorite sub-genre of horror is the one that deals with summer camps. In my younger years, I always wanted to visit a summer camp. The idea of spending time outside, making friends, and being away from parents seemed like it would be so much fun. I realized that I wanted to do this when I watched Friday the 13th for the first time. After that, I've always had a fascination with summer camps, even potentially wanting to be a camp counselor. Now that I am unable to do that, I can still get that sense while watching movies. The Burning is the quintessential summer camp movie, featuring the rowdy teenagers and un-attentive counselors while a killer is on the loose. While this may not be the most unique idea, it's still a fun film to watch. It's campy, which adds to the whole aesthetic of the film. It's not Friday the 13th, but The Burning still is a fun summer camp film that definitely would be a film to watch again.
The Burning
"He's a sexual pervert!" "What do you expect me to do, cut his balls off?" YES DO IT I DARE YOU
The Burning
A Bay of Blood: A Ranking of Slashers (1974 - 1990) (http://boxd.it/IoH8) A summer camp percolating in the midst of unbeknownst terror. A slow churn of ripples bouncing underneath canoes and happiness. Ripped straight from the slasher handbook and dealt with acceptable passion and style, The Burning is one of the better camp-slasher flicks released in the golden era of the horror sub-genre. Taking sweet care and time with familiarizing its group of teenagers with the audience, the film is far more skillful than a lot of slashers at the time, despite its obvious copy-and-paste premise. The Burning does something different: it focuses on a larger group of teenagers - some that survive and some that don't - and sparsely zeros in on a few of them, particularly when it comes to the boys' craving for sex. Tom Savini's trademark makeup and effects are center stage when it comes to the killing; at one glorious moment, a trickle of blood seeps down the arm of a brutalized victim, capturing the devastation and absolute shock of the scene in stylish form. What the film lacks however is a final girl and a sense of women empowerment. Don't get me wrong, a lot of slashers treat women as eye candy, but, in the end they kick the most ass. Despite its underwhelming finale that employs a wimpy Alfred and a psychopathic murderer, The Burning is no doubt an entertaining and unguilty pleasure of a slasher flick. 3.3/5
