The Burning (film)

The Burning

Film poster
Directed by Tony Maylam
Produced by Harvey Weinstein
Screenplay by Bob Weinstein
Peter Lawrence
Story by Brad Grey
Tony Maylam
Harvey Weinstein
Starring Lou David
Leah Ayres
Brian Backer
Larry Joshua
Brian Matthews
Music by Rick Wakeman
Cinematography Harvey Harrison
Edited by Jack Sholder
Production
company
Distributed by Filmways (United States)
Ambassador Film Distributors (Canada)
MGM (2007, DVD)
Shout! Factory (under license from MGM) (2013, Blu-Ray DVD)
Release dates
  • May 8, 1981 (United States)
Running time
 91 minutes [2]
Country United States[1]
Canada
Language English
Budget $1,500,000 (estimated)
Box office $707,770

The Burning is a 1981 slasher film directed by Tony Maylam and written by Peter Lawrence and Bob Weinstein. It is based on an original story by Maylam, Weinstein, and Brad Grey, with a musical score by Rick Wakeman of the progressive rock band Yes. The film is loosely based on the upstate New York urban legend of Cropsey, a tale that became popular at summer camps in the 1960s and 70s. In the film a summer camp caretaker, who was horribly disfigured from a prank-gone-wrong, is released from the hospital with severe deformities and seeks revenge on those he holds responsible, starting with the kids at a nearby summer camp.[3] Lou David stars as the maniacal Cropsey, while Brian Matthews plays the heroic camp counselor that must stop him.

Made at the height of the low-budget slasher film craze fueled by the success of Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980) in the early 1980s, the film has become notable for being the first from Miramax Films. Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who in later years would head major companies such as The Weinstein Company, produced the film.[4] The film is also the feature-film debut of Seinfeld's Jason Alexander as well as Fisher Stevens and Oscar winner Holly Hunter. Legendary make-up artist Tom Savini, notable for his works on Dawn of the Dead (1978), Maniac (1980), and the original Friday the 13th, created the effects for The Burning.

Theatrically released in the United States by Filmways in May 1981, the rights to The Burning were eventually transferred to Orion Pictures and, later, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who currently own the film in their library. While the film didn't generate much buzz and failed to bring in the box office business of other slasher films of the time, it has since gained a cult following and reappraisal by critics.[3] The Burning currently holds a 100% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregate website.

Plot

In 1976, at Camp Blackfoot, several campers pull a prank on the caretaker, "Cropsy". During the night they sneak into his cabin and set up a wormy skull next to his bed with candles in the eye sockets. When Cropsy is awoken by the campers banging on his window, he is so frightened by the skull that he knocks it onto his bed where it ignites his sheets and clothes. Aflame, Cropsy leaps from his bed and knocks over a gas tank, causing flames to spread through the cabin. The boys watch in shock as Cropsy, engulfed in flames, stumbles out and falls into a river.

Five years later, Cropsy is released from hospital, wearing a coat, sunglasses and hat to hide his deformities. Out of rage, he murders a prostitute by strangling her and repeatedly stabbing her in the chest with a pair of scissors. He then sets out to another summer camp, Camp Stonewater. Cropsy arrives and tries to attack a female camper, Tiger, who is searching for a baseball in the woods, but he hesitates to kill her.

The next morning, camper Sally steps out of the shower and is surprised by camper Alfred, who then runs away. Sally's screams bring Karen, Michelle, Todd, and Eddy, who catch Alfred. Michelle demands Alfred leave, but Todd talks to him. Todd learns that Alfred has no friends, and was pulling a prank on Sally. Glazer, Sally's boyfriend, later attacks Alfred, but Todd tells Glazer to cool off, and Alfred apologizes to Sally.

That night, Alfred spots Cropsy outside his window, but no one believes him. At the mess hall, Karen tells Michelle that she and Eddy are going to sleep together. The kids all go on a canoe trip up the river. After supper, Karen and Eddy go to a lake to skinny dip. Just as Eddy and Karen are about to have sex, Karen reconsiders, upsetting Eddy. Upon leaving, Karen discovers her clothes strewn in the woods. As she collects them, Cropsy grabs her and slits her throat.

The next morning, Michelle finds Karen has not returned. She and Todd find Eddy, who tells them she left. They discover the canoes have been cut adrift on the lake that surrounds the camp. Michelle does not believe Karen is the culprit, so some campers including Todd, Michelle, Alfred, Glazer, Dave, Eddy, Sally, Woodstock, Tiger, Barbara, Marnie, Sophie, Diane, Fish, Alan, and Rhoda go and search far away from the camp. They create a raft to collect the canoes, while other campers and counselors gather wood. Eddy, Fish and Woodstock (Fisher Stevens) board the finished raft along with two female campers, Marnie and Barbara . Alfred begins to explore, while Todd reassures Michelle that Karen is fine. Eddy and the campers spot a canoe and paddle toward it. Woodstock reaches for the canoe only to have Cropsy jump out and kill them all with his shears. He stabs Fish in the neck, Marnie in the back, cuts Woodstock's hand and hacks off his fingers, stabs Eddy in the throat, and Barbara, who is screaming and scrambling, is stabbed in the head.

Michelle starts to worry about Karen. As night falls, Glazer finally has sex with Sally, but suffers premature ejaculation. He later goes to get matches to start a fire and resume their intimacy. Cropsy appears behind Sally and forcibly shoves his shears into her chest, she fights to remove the shears but is killed. Alfred finds the spot where the couple is staying, and watches as Glazer returns. He uncovers Sally but Cropsy is hiding under Sally, Cropsy stabs his shears through Glazer's neck and pins him to a tree. Alfred returns to the others. He wakes Todd and tells him about what he just saw. Todd does not believe him until he finds the bodies. He is then attacked by Cropsy, who knocks him out and chases Alfred.

Alfred is chased, while Todd chases after Cropsy with an felling axe. The campers see a raft moving towards them with no one on board moving. When Michelle approaches the raft, she discovers it is full of dead bodies, Woodstock's severed arm falls on her head while she pulls him. She screams in horror while the other campers help her. Todd appears on the nearby island and goes to them. He tells them to evacuate as the campers are scared and panicking. On the island, she rows the remaining campers – Dave, Tiger, Diane, Sophie, Alan and Rhoda towards the campsite. Meanwhile, Cropsy has captured Alfred and drags him towards an abandoned mine shaft. Todd follows nearby, eventually tracking down Alfred in the mine, where Cropsy has pinned him up to the wall with the shears through his arm.

Michelle returns with the campers and calls the police to helicopter the kids and survivors to safety. Todd looks through the mine opening for Cropsy and Alfred. When he steps across a piece of track, a mine car up on a raft rolls down, causing him to fall. He falls through a wall and discovers Karen's body hanging from the ceiling. He and Cropsy struggle as Cropsy is trying to kill Todd with a blowtorch, and when Cropsy's disfigurement is shown, Todd remembers he was involved in the original prank. Alfred frees himself and helps Todd by stabbing Cropsy in the back with his own shears, seemingly killing him. The police arrive, while Michelle travels by boat to find Todd and Alfred. While Todd and Alfred are leaving, Cropsy attacks them. Todd hits Cropsy in the face with the axe, then Alfred ignites his clothes with Cropsy's blowtorch. Afterward, Alfred and Todd make their way out to Michelle, who brings them to the helicopter and to the hospital as Cropsy's body continues to burn. The film ends with another group of teenagers telling the story of Cropsy around the campfire.

Cast

Pre-production

Concept and creation

In 1980, Harvey Weinstein was desperate to break into the movie business. Weinstein and producing partner Michael Cohl recognized the success of low-budget horror films such as Halloween (1978) and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), and began swapping horror stories. Having heard the stories about the Cropsy legend when he was a young camper in upstate New York, Weinstein brought the idea to Cohl, who loved it.[5]

The project was initiated before the popularity of Sean S. Cunningham’s sleeper hit Friday the 13th (1980), with Harvey Weinstein creating a five page treatment in 1979 under the title “The Cropsy Maniac” and registering it in April 1980, a full month before Cunningham's film was released. Coincidentally, at the same time director Joseph Ellison also had a film in pre-production under the title “The Burning”, but changed the name to Don’t Go in the House (1980) to avoid confusion with Weinstein’s film. The production also bore similarities to another slasher movie in pre-production, a film that would become known as Madman (1982). In summer 1980, during a casting call for Madman, one of the actresses commented that her boyfriend was acting in The Burning. This prompted Madman to change its entire premise, which was built around the Cropsy legend. This change caused story alterations on Madman, and filming on that film was delayed until October 1980. Madman’s delay was costly for the film, as it didn’t get a theatrical release until January 1982. The over-saturation of genre films competing with each other was one of the unfortunate side-effects of the early 1980s slasher boom.[5]

Cohl told Variety that he, Weinstein and producer Corky Burger took an early version of the script to the 1980 Cannes Film festival where it was met with positive reception, although the they rejected initial six-figure offers, hoping to land more money once the film had been shot. This was a similar approach to how Friday the 13th had earned distribution with Paramount Pictures.[5]

British director Tony Maylam, known for rock music documentaries in the 1970s, was hired as The Burning’s director in summer 1980. Maylam had met Weinstein and Burger while the producers worked as rock promoters.[5]

During his discussion with film critic Alan Jones on the commentary track of MGM's DVD, Maylam said that once he came on board things moved very quickly. The screenplay was written in just six weeks and was sculpted to conform to the emerging genre conventions of the time. As it was, the film takes place mostly outside and is set in summer, so there was only a small window of opportunity to make the film or, perhaps, have to wait until the following year. Knowing that the slasher craze wouldn't last forever and wanting to get their film released before it fizzled out, the producers rushed into production. The screenplay was written by Peter Lawrence and Harvey's brother, Bob Weinstein. Again, showing a knowledge of the then in-vogue conventions of the slasher movie, the script showcased a murder every ten minutes in the script. It was Maylam’s idea to make Cropsy’s weapon-of-choice gardening shears. Interestingly, the film originally had a different ending. A script that dated July 6, 1980 shifted the location to one much more in setting with a summer camp slasher. Originally, the showdown was to take place in a boathouse. The other big change is that Todd ends up as the “Final Boy” rather than the heroic adult, and Alfred is killed by Cropsy. Other changes included an excised character named Alan, who was to be the love interest for Tiger. This version also ends with a campfire scene, but the last line is different: “...And every year he seeks revenge for the terrible things those kids did to him ... every year he kills!”[5]

The production company became Miramax, named after Harvey and Bob Weinstein’s parents Mira and Max, who helped fund the picture. The budget is reported to have been between $500,000 and $1.5 million, although the latter is more often cited. Cohl admitted that the fact that most of the people behind the production were relatively new to the movie business did cause some problems, and the film did go over budget — with them underestimating how much money would have to be spent on behind-the-scenes elements.[5]

Casting

Casting took place in New York in the spring of 1980, and Maylam met most of the cast in person. There was a remarkably quick turnaround, as the start date for filming was August 18, 1980 (although some shooting may have taken place prior to this date). Brian Matthews and Leah Ayres were cast first. Ayres already had a successful small screen career. Maylam reportedly insisted that Matthews dye his hair brown, as he didn't think he would look macho enough with blonde hair. Larry Joshua was cast as one of the kids at the camp, even though he was older in real life than either Matthews or Ayres. Like most of the cast, it was his first role, but led to a long and successful career mostly on the small screen. The rest of the cast was hired during a series of auditions. Brian Backer had appeared briefly in the teen comedy Meatballs (1979). For some of the soon-to-be-stars, such as Holly Hunter, Jason Alexander, and Fisher Stevens, The Burning was their first big screen appearance.[5]

The Weinsteins and Maylam also secured the services of make-up supremo Tom Savini, who they flew to Pittsburgh to meet. Savini had worked on films such as Dawn of the Dead (1978), Friday the 13th (1980), Maniac (1980), and Eyes of a Stranger (1981). Savini turned down the chance to work on Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981), ostensibly because he couldn’t understand the logic that Jason was fully grown and was now the killer, as well as what he described as “miscommunications” with the film's backers. He also said that he liked the script for The Burning more.[5]

Production

Filming

The Burning was shot in the late summer of 1980 around Buffalo and North Tonawanda, New York. Much of the filming took place in and around existing summer camps to give it that authentic look whilst keeping costs down. The cast wore their own clothes throughout the production. Many of the cast were local to the New York area, and were aware of the Cropsy legend.[6]

In the interview on the MGM DVD, Savini recalls that the cast were literally queuing up to find out how they would die, making him feel like an assassin. Savini was very hands on with the production. In the opening scene where Cropsy is burned in his cabin by a young Todd and his friends, Savini's legs were the ones that were set on fire. The actual stunt of running while on fire was done by 17-year-old Reid Rondell, who tragically died doing a stunt for the TV show Airwolf a few years later.[6]

Savini also didn't have much time to put together the special effects for the film. He only had three or four days to make the Cropsy make-up – the mask was created in his dressing room in-between special effects duties elsewhere on the film. In Grande Illusions, his first book on his life as a special effects guru, Savini says he based the look of Cropsy on a burnt beggar he had seen as a kid in Pittsburg, as well as text books on burn victims. However, due to time constraints, the resulting mask was more of a melt than a burn. Savini was pleased enough with what he had done that he subsequently agreed to go on a publicity tour for the film.[6]

Savini expanded on his Friday the 13th experience for his work on The Burning. The scene where a victim has her throat cut by Cropsy with the shears was similar in execution to the demise of the hitch hiker in the earlier film. For Cropsy's demise, when the axe smashes into his face, he used for an almost identical effect in Friday the 13th.[6]

There has been much speculation as to why the mine system was chosen for the climactic battle between Cropsy and Todd. As an earlier script showed, it was originally meant to be a boat house at the camp, but this was switched to a cave system. Indeed, another subsequent version of the script has a scene in Cropsy's lair, where he looks over old newspaper clippings. Maylam says it was changed again to the copper mine because they found bats roosting and was unsafe.[6]

Maylam recalls that Carolyn Houlihan, who was Miss USA in 1979, found her nude scenes extremely difficult to do. However, Carrick Glenn, who also had a nude scene, was relaxed in front of the camera according to the director.[6]

Maylam maintains that he was Cropsy for about 90% of the movie, as he couldn't get anyone else to hold the shears the way he wanted (to perfect that gleam bouncing off the cold metal.[6]

Post-production

British progressive rocker Rick Wakeman of the band Yes knew both Maylam and Weinstein through their rock music connections. Wakeman signed up to provide the film's score, which was recorded in New York.[6]

The film was edited by Jack Sholder, who went on shortly to direct the first film for New Line Cinema, the slasher Alone in the Dark (1982) starring Jack Palance, Martin Landau, and Donald Pleasence. He also directed A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985), a sequel to the 1984 classic.[6]

Maylam has said that there was talk of a sequel at the time The Burning was wrapping, however Maylam was leery of being type-cast as a horror director and the less than stellar box office stalled the sequel’s production.[6]

Promotion and release

According to Maylam, the film got a very good response at test screenings. In February 1981, Filmways Pictures picked up the rights to distribute the film from Mirimax for an undisclosed sum after viewing it in Los Angeles. According to Variety, Filmways was in financial difficulties and saw an opportunity to make quick money during the slasher boom. The company had already produced Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill (1980), which had made serious money the previous year. Filmways also released horror thrillers such as The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976), Without Warning (1980), and The Last House on the Left (1972). Filmways originally was intent on renaming the film “Tales Around the Campire” due to its now-iconic campfire scenes, however its original title remained. The film was subsequently sold to foreign territories including Britain, Germany, France, Spain and Japan at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.[7]

Box-Office

In April 1981, Variety reported that The Burning would premiere on May 8 in Florida on 110 screens with a regional roll out to follow. According to Variety, the film did especially well in Buffalo, near where it had lensed. In June 1981, Variety described its performance as “sizzling”, saying “[it] … lit up Buffalo area screens this weekend”. The film played in three theaters and two drive-ins, bringing in an impressive $33,000. Regardless, interest soon fizzled, and the film suffered a more than 50% drop-off in box office receipts the following week.[7]

Despite this brief bright spot, overall box office for The Burning was initially pretty dismal. It lasted in the top 50 for only four weeks, with a take of just $270,508. Variety reported it received a “chilly reception” in San Francisco and Chicago. Unlike in Buffalo, it opened elsewhere to stiff competition: it debuted at number 23 behind slasher films Happy Birthday to Me, which was at number one, and Friday the 13th Part 2 at number two. However, The Burning also opened on far fewer screens than those wider releases.[7]

The over-saturation of the slasher film market did not help draw in audiences to The Burning. Despite having the very similar-plotted Friday the 13th Part 2 playing, the film suffered from competition with Happy Birthday to Me (1981), Final Exam (1981), The Fan (1981), Graduation Day (1981), and a successful re-release of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The success of Friday the 13th Part 2 hampered The Burning’s attendance, as the audience flocked to the known-property.[7]

The Burning was re-released to American theaters with new poster artwork (showing the face with a fire reflected in an eye) in November 1982, a full year and a half after its original release. New York Times film critic Janet Maslin’s scathing review originates from this 1982 re-release. Orion Pictures, who had recently merged with Filmways, distributed the re-release. Orion put the film into wider release than Filmways had in 1981. An ad in Variety from November 17, 1982 emphasizes the comparative success: "The Burning scorches New York! $401,258 in just 7 days." Coincidentally, the same ad boasts that 8,800 video cassettes of the film have been sold by EMI in the United Kingdom. Its last week on the chart was December 8, 1982, where it had slipped from 78 screens the previous week to just 8 that week with a final gross of $707,770. Promotional press artwork also exists under the title “Cropsy” but it is unclear when it played theaters under that title, as it was a common practice to give films multiple names in an effort to trick audiences into seeing it multiple times. According to the MPAA site it may have also played under the title “Campfire Tales.” These releases and re-releases make if difficult to find a definitive box office tally for the film.[7]

According to Tony Maylam the film sold well around the world, making back its $1.5 million budget. The film did very well in Japan when it was released there in September 1981. Variety reported it “... set fire to the box office” in Tokyo, making a total of $283,477 in a week at just four cinemas. It had legs, staying in one cinema for at least six weeks there. Eventually, it grossed over $1 million in Japan alone.[7]

The film was released to British screens on November 5, 1981 by Handmade Films, where it was met with modest success. Within a couple of weeks it was on a double-bill with When a Stranger Calls (1979), which didn't boost its fortunes as Variety said it soon “hit the skids” with “pathetic” results.[7]

Censorship

Despite the graphic gore effects of slasher films being the driving force behind their box office success, the MPAA gave into the critical reception and reaction of pressure groups who were protesting the films in the wake of violent acts, such as the assassination of John Lennon and the growing debate about violence in the media. The Burning was heavily trimmed to receive its R-rating. The film remained cut in the United States for nearly 30-years, until its release on DVD in 2007 with its restored scenes of gore.[7]

The British cinema release of The Burning was severely cut as well by the BBFC, receiving an X-certificate on September 23, 1981 with cuts to the scissor murder of the prostitute and some gore during the raft attack. When the film was accidentally released uncut on video in the United Kingdom by Thorn-EMI, the tape was liable for seizure and prosecution under the Obscene Publications Act. Thorn-EMI had unwittingly released a "video nasty", a term used to coin films judged as obscene and too violent for home rental. They tried to rectify matters by reissuing a BBFC approved version. The original uncut Thorn-EMI release is worth a great deal of money today. In 1992, the United Kingdom video re-release suffered additional cuts to the raft attack plus cuts to the killing of Karen. It was finally released fully uncut in 2002.[7]

Critical reception

Time Out wrote "Suspensewise, it's proficient enough, but familiarity with this sort of stuff can breed contempt."[8]

In recent years, The Burning has received critical acclaim, and is often cited as being one of the best slasher films ever made. The film currently holds a 100% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregate website.AllMovie gave the film a positive review, writing, "With deliberant pacing and shocking scenes of full-on gore, The Burning delivers on the creep-out levels and would probably be better regarded if not for the boom of familiar flicks that came out after this release."[9] While reviewing the film's 2013 Blu-ray release from Scream Factory, Scott Weinberg of FEARnet wrote, "[The Burning is] dated and sort of dull but there's some amazing gore and the new blu-ray makes it shine."[10]

DVD releases

The Burning was released on DVD in North America for the first time ever on 11 September 2007 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[11] The DVD contains several extras, including a commentary by director Tony Maylam, a featurette covering Savini's make-up effects, a stills gallery and the theatrical trailer. Despite the DVD cover displaying the 'R' rating, the print used is the full uncut version.[12] Shout! Factory announced they would be releasing The Burning on Blu-ray Disc/DVD Combo Pack on May 21, 2013 under their sub-label Scream Factory.[13]

Soundtrack

Cover of the soundtrack album

A soundtrack album featuring Rick Wakeman's score was released on LP in 1981 in Europe and shortly after in the United States and Japan.[14] It includes music from the film and rock band arrangements by Wakeman, known as The Wakeman Variations, as well as selections from the score written by Alan Brewer and Anna Pepper. Alan Brewer was musical director for the film and co-producer of the score and soundtrack album with Rick Wakeman.[15][16]

On 26 February 2007, the soundtrack was released in the United Kingdom for the first time on CD.[17]

Track list[15]
  1. "Theme from The Burning" – 3:33
  2. "The Chase Continues (Po's Plane)" – 3:53
  3. "Variations on the Fire" – 5:13
  4. "Shear Terror and More" – 4:34
  5. "The Burning (End Title Theme)" – 2:01
  6. "Campfire Story" – 3:09
  7. "The Fire" – 3:25
  8. "Doin' It" – 2:42
  9. "Devil's Creek Breakdown" – 2:21
  10. "The Chase" – 2:02
  11. "Shear Terror" – 2:43

Legacy

Many people involved in The Burning have gone onto achieve great success. Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein have become successful film producers, acting as founders and heads of Miramax Films and, later, The Weinstein Company. Bob also is the head of Dimension Films, which continues to release genre films, including the successful Scream slasher film franchise and several of the Halloween films. Harvey has won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love and garnered seven Tony Awards for producing a variety of winning plays and musicals including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. Brad Grey, who received a writing credit on The Burning, is the chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, a position he has held since 2005. Grey has produced eight of the ten top-grossing films to come from the studio. Actress Holly Hunter won an Academy Award in 1993 for her performance in The Piano, and was also nominated for her performances in Broadcast News (1987), The Firm (1993), and Thirteen (2003), as well as winning two Emmy Awards and seven nominations. Jason Alexander would star in the long-running, critically acclaimed sit-com Seinfeld as George Costanza. Fisher Stevens would star in The Flamingo Kid (1984) and Short Circuit (1986) before turning to documentary directing, where he won an Academy Award for his film The Cove (2010) and an Independent Spirit Award for Crazy Love (2007). The film was also cited by Hifumi Kono as being the inspiration for Bobby Barrow's signature scissors weapon in Clock Tower.[18]

In 2009, writer-director Joshua Zeman and director Barbara Brancaccio released a documentary titled Cropsey, which details the Cropsey maniac urban legend on which The Burning is based. Despite sharing little connection to The Burning, the film re-ignites the popular mythos of the character.[19]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Credits". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ "THE BURNING (X)". HandMade Films. British Board of Film Classification. September 23, 1981. Retrieved July 25, 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kerswell, J.A. (2012). The Slasher Movie Book. Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Review Press. ISBN 1556520107.
  4. ↑ "Miramax Film Corporation History". fundinguniverse.com. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Kerswell, J.A. "The Burning (1981) pre-prod". Hysteria-Lives. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 Kerswell, J.A. "The Burning (1981) Production". Hysteria-Lives. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 Kerswell, J.A. "The Burning (1981) Promotion". Hysteria-Lives. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  8. ↑ Milne, Tom, ed. (1991). The Time Out Film Guide (Second ed.). Penguin Books. p. 92.
  9. ↑ Wheeler, Jeremy. "The Burning – Review – AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
  10. ↑ Weinberg, Scott. "The Burning (1981) Blu-ray Review". FEARnet.com. RottenTomatoes. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  11. ↑ "The Burning". Amazon.com. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  12. ↑ "'Rewind' DVD comparison".
  13. ↑ "The Burning and The Town That Dreaded Sundown: Blu-ray/DVD Cover Art and Release Details". Daily Dead. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  14. ↑ "Burning, The (1981)". soundtrackcollector.com. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Stephen Raiteri. "The Burning – Rick Wakeman : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  16. ↑ "BME: Rick Wakeman, Nashville Film Festival". bmemusic.com. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  17. ↑ "The Burning". Amazon.com. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  18. ↑ http://w11.zetaboards.com/dontcryjennifer/topic/195429/5/
  19. ↑ Kerswell, J.A. "Cropsy Legend". Hysteria-Lives. Retrieved 19 August 2014.

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