Loading Page
The Burning(1981)
Status: Released
Date: 1981-05-08
62%
434 Votes
Time: 1h 31m
A legend of terror isn't a campfire story anymore!
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America,
Canada
Budget: $1,500,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
The Cropsy Venture
Movie: The Burning
Top 10 Billed Cast
Leah Ayres
Michelle
Brian Backer
Alfred
Larry Joshua
Glazer
Jason Alexander
Dave
Ned Eisenberg
Eddy
Carrick Glenn
Sally
Fisher Stevens
Woodstock
Lou David
Cropsy
Video Trailer The Burning
Video: The Burning (1981) - Official Trailer
The Burning (1981) - Official Trailer
BLOOD N FIRE MEMORIES Making The Burning with TOM SAVINI
Jack Sholder on editing The Burning
All 3 videos
The Burning (1981) - Official Trailer - Trailer
BLOOD N FIRE MEMORIES Making The Burning with TOM SAVINI - Behind the Scenes
Jack Sholder on editing The Burning - Behind the Scenes
Recommendations Movies
52%
The Driller Killer(en)
1979-06-15
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
51%
Scream for Help(en)
1984-07-03
A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.
66%
It Always Rains on Sunday(en)
1947-11-28
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
53%
Bystanders(en)
2024-09-14
Abby and her friends attend a frat party, but it turns into a nightmare when they are drugged and hunted for sport. As Abby escapes, a mysterious couple arrives and they’re ready to turn the tables on the predators.
48%
Plague Town(en)
2009-04-03
An American family visiting their Irish roots accidentally stumbles on a horde of bloodthirsty mutant children.
28%
Bloodz vs. Wolvez(en)
2006-09-12
A turf war is started by two rival supernatural gangs, The "Bloodz" which are vampires and the "Wolvez" which are werewolves.
68%
The Inerasable(ja)
2016-01-30
A novelist receives a letter from a female university student named Kubo about strange sounds that emanate from a room in her apartment. They begin to investigate incidents involving former residents, and eventually discover the shocking truths lurking inside the building.
59%
Spellbinder(en)
1988-09-23
After leaving work one night, Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills and his colleague rescue a young, beautiful woman from an abusive boyfriend. Jeff soon becomes romantically involved with her and embroiled in the web of intrigue that follows her, despite a string of ominous happenstances and repeated warnings from his secretary.
60%
April Fool's Day(en)
1986-03-27
As soon as Muffy St. John and her college friends arrive on her parents' secluded island, someone starts trimming the guest list... one murder at a time.
53%
Curtains(en)
1983-03-04
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
60%
Happy Birthday to Me(en)
1981-05-15
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on.
62%
Basket Case(en)
1982-04-02
A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed, formerly conjoined twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
55%
In Fear(en)
2013-04-03
Driving to a music festival in Ireland, a young couple gets trapped in a country maze on their way to a remote hotel, where an unidentifiable sinister force torments them.
63%
Sleepaway Camp(en)
1983-11-18
Years after a terrible boating accident, Angela is sent to Camp Arawak where a series of bizarre and violent "accidents" begin to claim the lives of various campers.
54%
The Stendhal Syndrome(it)
1996-01-26
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
49%
Piranhaconda(en)
2012-06-16
A hybrid creature - half piranha and half anaconda -- attacks a low-budget horror movie crew on location near her nest when her egg is stolen. Now they must outrun and kill the deadly piranhaconda as well as stop the mad scientist who stole the egg - before they all become dinner.
69%
The Suspect(ko)
2013-12-24
Betrayed and on the run, a former North Korean agent tries to seek revenge on the man who killed his wife, find his missing daughter, and uncover the secrets hidden inside the eyeglasses of a dead man.
70%
The Psychic(it)
1977-08-10
A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
67%
Ms .45(en)
1981-04-24
After being attacked and raped twice in one day, a timid, mute seamstress becomes a violent agent of revenge for wronged women.
58%
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers(en)
1988-08-26
Angela Baker escapes from a mental hospital and surfaces at a summer camp as a counselor who lectures her teenage charges on proper moral behavior. Those teens who break her strict rules -- from the camp chatterbox or a sex-obsessed girl to the boys who are peeping Toms -- are murdered by the impostor in various gruesome ways. As more campers go missing, intrepid counselor Molly begins to piece together the truth.
Similar Movies
47%
Cabin Fever(en)
2016-02-12
While staying at a remote cabin for a week-long vacation, a group of five college friends succumb to an infectious, flesh-eating disease.
81%
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street(en)
2014-09-26
In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.
54%
Zombies of Mora Tau(en)
1957-03-01
A fortune hunter leads a search for diamonds guarded by undead sailors off the coast of Africa.
45%
Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled(en)
2002-06-10
The unspeakable evil of the soul-devouring djinn rises again in this fourth electrifying installment of the unstoppable Wishmaster horror legacy! But now, as a host of new victims see their most nightmarish wishes come true, the world faces the ultimate demonic terror: an onslaught of multiple djinns hell-bent on destroying everything in their path!
69%
Intruders(en)
2014-10-24
In the aftermath of a deadly haunting in a small suburban home, a sinister omnipresent entity proceeds to cause havoc in the private lives of a young boy, an unsuspecting teen, and an absent-minded inspector.
44%
Chain Letter(en)
2010-10-01
Six friends receive a mysterious chain letter via text messaging and in their email accounts from a maniac who's hunting down teenagers who fail to forward his online chain letter. Who knew they should take the threats in the chain letter seriously? Or that chain letters using the teens' favorite technologies to track them can kill? This maniacal game pits friend against friend as they race to beat rules that seem impossible to escape. Break the chain, lose a life. Do you pass it on? Does friendship mean anything?
48%
Salvage(en)
2006-11-02
Claire Parker is going to die. At the hands of a sadistic and depraved killer, she will endure a terrifying, unimaginable brutal death--and it will all happen again. After being beaten, dragged, sliced, and stabbed, Claire awakens at work--where it all began--untouched and unharmed. But the hellish ordeal is far from over. The madman is back and he's ready for more blood...
34%
Monstrosity(en)
1963-09-01
A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.
32%
The Dungeon of Harrow(en)
1964-02-01
A man is shipwrecked on the island of a cruel Count and taken prisoner.
50%
Servants of Twilight(en)
1991-05-01
Based on the novel by Dean R. Koontz, this action packed thriller features Bruce Greenwood as a private detective hired to protect a little boy from a fanatical religious cult that believe he is the antichrist fortold in the book of Revelations.
46%
Voodoo Woman(en)
1957-04-11
Deep in the jungles a mad scientist is using the natives' voodoo for his experiments to create an indestructible being to serve his will. When a party of gold seekers stumbles upon his village, the scientist realizes that Marilyn the expedition's evil leader is the perfect subject for his work.
47%
Baaz: A Bird in Danger(hi)
2003-02-07
In a small town, Nainital, India the police is on the look-out for a serial killer. All the killer's targets are of astonishing beautiful young girls; with an ulterior motive. Evidences found at the crime scenes are a dragger and a pair of rubber gloves. The three men under suspect are Mayor Jai Singh Dabral, DSP Harshvardan and a painter by profession Raj Singh; the problem is the police do not have evidence to incarcerate any of these men.
55%
Snakes on a Plane(en)
2006-08-17
FBI agent Neville Flynn boards a flight from Honolulu, Hawaii to Los Angeles, escorting a key witness to testify against a mob boss at an upcoming trial. An on-board assassin releases a crate full of hundreds of deadly venomous snakes in an attempt to eliminate the witness. Flynn and a host of frightened passengers and crew must band together to survive the slithery threat.
73%
A Nightmare on Elm Street(en)
1984-11-09
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...
68%
Blood: The Last Vampire(ja)
2000-11-18
In Japan, the vampire-hunter Saya, who is a powerful original, is sent by her liaison with the government, David, posed as a teenage student to the Yokota High School on the eve of Halloween to hunt down vampires. Saya asks David to give a new katana to her. Soon she saves the school nurse Makiho Amano from two vampires disguised of classmates and Makiho witnesses her fight against the powerful demon.
75%
Dawn of the Dead(en)
1978-09-02
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
71%
Dawn of the Dead(en)
2004-03-19
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
76%
Halloween(en)
1978-10-24
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
57%
The Omen(en)
2006-06-06
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
44%
The Scarehouse(en)
2014-09-13
When two friends open a Halloween fun house on Devil's Night it is all fun and games until their former sorority sisters begin to arrive. These six sisters are confronted by their past as the night spins out of control.