The Burning

The Burning
  • Release date: 8 May 1981
  • Release year: 1981
  • Runtime: 91 minutes
  • Country: United States, Canada
  • Keywords: summer camp, prank, masked killer, prank goes wrong, slasher, garden shears, villain, insanity, mass murder, psychopathic killer
Plot:
Cropsy, an alcoholic, sadistic caretaker for the summer camp called Camp Blackfoot is prank-ed by a group of camp-going boys who felt it was necessary to 'get him back'. The prank goes wrong and Cropsy is left in a hospital for five years, yet to no avail Cropsy is left to go back out into the world again but this time he is a changed individual inside and outside. Cropsy, back in society again for the first time in five years, feels more than obligated to pay a visit to some individuals at a place called Camp StoneWater, just across the way from his old stomping grounds.........
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