Written by Humberto Amador Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis Seeking revenge upon those who were involved in the prank Cropsy raising his shears during the film's raft sequence.Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Meanwhile, Cropsy captures Alfred by grabbing his throat beside a wall and brings him inside an abandoned mine shaft. After Glazer leaves to get matches to start a campfire for their intimacy, Cropsy appears behind Sally and forces his shears into her chest. The film did very well in The film was released to British screens on November 5, 1981 by Despite the graphic gore effects of slasher films being the driving force behind their box office success, the MPAA gave in to the critical reception and reaction of pressure groups who were protesting the films in the wake of violent acts, such as the On February 26, 2007, the soundtrack was released in the United Kingdom for the first time on In 2009, writer-director Joshua Zeman and director Barbara Brancaccio released a documentary titled On October 15, 2017, former-production assistant Paula Wachowiak alleged that producer Harvey Weinstein's Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Her screams bring the attention of counselors Michelle and Todd, and campers Karen and Eddy catch him. When Glazer returns, Alfred awaits behind a tree and watches him. It also … Alfred ignites his body with his own flamethrower and they make their way outside to Michelle, who brought the police with her, as Cropsy's body burns away.
When awoken by the campers banging on his window, he accidentally knocks the skull onto his bed where it ignites his sheets and clothing.
While Todd is investigating Glazer's corpse, Cropsy appears and cuts his forehead, knocking him unconscious, and chases Alfred into the woods. Todd continues to follow and enters inside the mine, where Cropsy has pinned Alfred up to a wall with his shears into his arm. The following day, the campers are brought by Todd and Michelle on a canoe trip down to the river Devil's Creek. Add to cart.
As night falls, campers Glazer and Sally begin to have sex in a remote area of the woods, unbeknownst to them that Cropsy is watching them behind the bushes.
Five years later, Cropsy is released from the hospital, wearing a heavy coat, sunglasses and hat to hide his deformities. During one night, camper Alfred spots Cropsy outside of his window and soon disappears, but no one believes him.
He then sets out to another summer camp, Camp Stonewater.
Savini was very hands-on with the production.
Years later, after being released with severe disfigurements, he seeks to target those responsible at a nearby summer camp. That night, Alfred spots Cropsy outside his window, but nobody believes him. Camp Counselor Michelle swims towards the raft and upon discovering it is full of dead bodies, including the corpse of Woodstock with one of his arms severed. When Todd steps across a track, Cropsy pushes a mine cart down at him, causing Todd to knock aside and crash into a wall, where he discovers Karen's corpse.
Additional information. When he was released from the hospital with severe deformities from failed skin drafts, he armed himself with a pair of garden shears and sought revenge upon those responsible for the prank. Cropsey "the Burning" quantity. He is attacked by Cropsy, who reveals his disfigurements, and Alfred frees himself to stab him with his own shears. Just as Todd is cornered from Cropsy's blowtorch, Alfred frees himself and stabs Cropsy with his own shears.
Turning off the blowtorch, Todd continues to search in the area. One night at Camp Blackfoot, several campers pull a prank on the caretaker named Cropsy by setting a worm-riddled skull with candles in the eye sockets, next to his bed. By the next morning, the camp notices the disappearance of Karen and discover the canoes missing. Indeed, another subsequent version of the script has a scene in Cropsy's lair, where he looks over old newspaper clippings.
They watch in shock as Cropsy, engulfed in flames, stumbles out and falls down into a river, putting out the flames. Later, he releases the nearby canoes adrift into the lake, having everyone think that Karen left and stole the canoes. Todd discovers Karen's body and sees Cropsy armed with a flamethrower, where he begins to remember being involved with the prank.
After collecting most of her clothing, Cropsy grabs her and slashes her throat. He was initially an alcoholic and implied pedophile, and the caretaker of a summer camp, Camp Blackfoot.
After a prank set by a group of campers gone wrong, he was heavily burned alive and was sent to a hospital for recovery. Before they can leave, Cropsy reappears and Todd ultimately slams the axe into his face, killing him. After Todd tells them about the legend of Cropsy, Karen and Eddy go to a lake to Glazer has sex with Sally in the woods, but suffers Todd regains consciousness and chases after the killer with an axe.
Out of rage, he murders a female prostitute by strangling her and repeatedly stabbing her with a pair of scissors. Cropsy, now armed with a modified blowtorch functioning as a flamethrower, begins walking towards Todd. The Burning is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Tony Maylam, and starring Brian Matthews, Brian Backer, Leah Ayres, and Lou David. With the raft completed, five campers Eddy, Woodstock, Fish, Diane, and Barbara board the raft and leave back to camp.
This results in the campers creating a makeshift raft in order to return back to the camp. Five years later, Cropsy is released from the hospital despite having to deal with failed The next morning, a camper named Alfred scares Sally as she steps out of the shower. Glazer uncovers Sally, before Cropsy thrusts his shears into his neck and pins him towards a tree. Despite the moments of premature ejaculation, they decide to continue their intimacy. Obviously, we know that the fictional Cropsy in THE BURNING is a camp caretaker, horribly disfigured by a prank-gone-wrong. Todd initially does not believe, until discovering the bodies. The campers see the raft in the lake with no one on board.
After a prank set by a group of campers gone wrong, he was heavily burned alive and was sent to a hospital for recovery. Cropsy then spies on campers Karen and Eddy, who are taking a skinny dip in a lake. Savini also did not have much time to put together the special effects for the film.