My ★★★★½ review of The Burning on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/a0pJy3
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One of the most criminally underrated slasher flicks to come out of the 80s boom. It's weird to think that Cropsy never became at least a mild icon and got a few sequels given how good this movie is. What sets it apart from so many other slashers of its day is that so many of the counsellors, or shear fodder for Cropsy, is that while many of them fit the stereotype caricatures, they are brought to life in a way that makes them truly feel like real people, something that is sorely lacking in so many slasher flicks. Add
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This has everything you’d expect in a 1981 summer camp horror movie: short shorts, misogynistic teenage boys/men who don’t understand the word, “no”, incredibly bad hair styles, oh and of course a psychotic serial killer bent on revenge. It’s not exactly a flattering portrayal of a burn victim, but the prologue does give the impression that he was already a horrible guy and apparently it’s based on an urban myth so really this is just his character coming to fruition I guess. Everyone is good looking, the counselors are surprisingly sensible at times (not all of them). There’s bullying of
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