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Best movie ever!

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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.

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.

I first saw this in the late 80s. Revisited it recently on a DVD. Weinstein brothers made their debut with this poor man's Friday the 13th done right. The special effects were done by Tom Savini n he nailed it. The raft scene is the best highlight. Lots of stabbings via the gardening shears, slashings, severed fingers, etc. It's definitely worth a view for fans of slasher movies. There is sufficient violence n nudity but the sex scene is one of the lamest. The plot- a group of kids decides to play a prank on the caretaker of a camp. The joke goes bad n the victim sets himself on fire. He is released after five years from the hospital but his face has been deformed n he seeks vengeance. The cast included future well-known actors. The movie is full of slasher clichés, wandering away from everyone for a nude pond dip, having sex in the woods, going down to the basement alone, not defending oneself but rather running helter-skelter, not making an effort to make sure that the killer is dead once its down. The movie has one very different aspect, there was no waiting until the end for the big reveal of the killer's identity, its fully revealed from the onset. The cinematography is decent with the lush greens of the camps surrounding forest n the images of flowing water.

Coming along in the first wave of slasher movies hot after the success of "Friday the 13th", comes another tale of stupid teenagers doing stupid things and having sex at a summer camp right before getting slaughtered in various painful looking ways. As usual with most slasher movies, the acting is all over the place. Some of the actors are decent enough, while some are just horrible and you wonder how they even got the role in the first place. And as usual with most slashers in the first wave and after, there are boobs a plenty to be viewed. And, also as usual, most.of the "teenagers" look like their in their mid 20's. This movie also employs the killers "POV" shot, which has become synominous with the slasher genre , before and long after this film. Compared to other films in this genre, The Burning is fairly slow moving, with none of the killings, except for one small one in the beginning, taking place until about 40 minutes into the movie, instead deciding to focus on the characters, who for the most part are all so unlikeable you'll be wishing they'd get knocked off sooner. Even once the killings begin, their fairly restrained and pretty fake looking. And once they actually begin there's long periods in between until another takes place. The only upside to this movie is the infamous "raft scene" where a raft full of five people get brutally slaughtered in about 30 seconds. Even then, the gore effects aren't that great, which is depressing considering that they were done by the great Tom Savini. This movie has been considered to be one of the greats of the slasher genre, up there with "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th". Frankly, I disagree, as I found it boring, slow moving, and just not that great in general.