The Burning
The Burning
6.283%60%
Abusive former summer camp caretaker Cropsy, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong five years earlier, lurks around upstate NY summer Camp Stonewater with garden shears and bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 12, 2025
Out of the gate, it was kind of hard not to be off-put by the Harvey Weinstein story credit. There are definitely some cringy moments in the first half of the film that had me a bit worried about the direction this would head, knowing who was involved. Thankfully, the latter half of the film has the vibe of a proper slasher. The raft killing is particularly good with some excellent gore effects. Really loved the low angle shot of the killer with the raised shears in the sunlight (sort of echoed on the movie poster). Lots of familiar (young) faces which is always fun in a watch like this. Jason Alexander, Holly Hunter, and Fisher Stevens (thankfully not in brownface). I definitely need some new garden shears, though, because mine won’t cut for shit, but the killer’s seemed to slice through everything like butter.