The Burning
1981 · 91 min · Horror · TMDB 6.2
The short version:Reads as extreme & torture, slasher. Heavy on fire & burning.
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Synopsis
A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidentally burned him.
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Intensity: brief means implied, off-screen or a single moment; heavy means graphic, prolonged or central. Items marked “inferred from keywords” come from TMDB tags and have not been confirmed by a person.
Violence & gore
- Graphic goreModerateinferred from keywords
Phobias & sensory
- Fire & burningHeavyinferred from keywords