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''Don't move... '''you're dead!''''' }}
 
'''''The Burning''''' is a [[Slasher Flick]] from the year 1981. It was directed by Tony Maylam. It featured special effects by Tom Savini and its music was composed by keyboardist Rick Wakeman (of [[David Bowie (Music)|David Bowie]] and [[Yes (Music)|Yes]] fame).
 
Five years after a group of kids set Camp Blackfoot's cruel caretaker, Cropsy, on fire (in a prank involving a skull with candles for eyes), he gets released from the hospital. After killing a prostitute, Cropsy heads back to the camp with a pair of [[Weapon of Choice|hedge clippers]] and starts offing campers left and right.
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* [[Eighties Hair]]
* [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms]]: Numerous references.
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Cropsy.
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Karen and Eddy.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: The male characters are all quite the horndogs.
* [[An Arm and Aa Leg]]: When Michelle reaches the adrift raft, a severed arm falls off it.
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Todd fights and kills Cropsy with one.
* [[And Starring]]: And Lou David as Cropsy.
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* [[Daylight Horror]]: The raft massacre and everything following it.
* [[Deadly Prank]]
* [[Death Byby Mocking]]
* [[Death Byby Sex]]: Sally and Glazer.
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Karen, then Sally.
* [[Destination Defenestration]]: While struggling with the prostitute, Cropsy knocks her through a window.
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* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]]: Devil's Creek.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Luckily for the younger campers, Cropsy only wants the older ones and the counselors.
* [[Impaled Withwith Extreme Prejudice]]: Glazer, through the throat.
* [[Impending Doom POV]]
* [[Impromptu Tracheotomy]]: Eddy and Glazer's deaths.
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Cropsy uses a pair of scissors to stab the prostitute.
* [[IveI've Never Seen Anything Like This Before]]: "I've been working here ten years, and I'm telling you, I ain't never seen anything like this."
* [[Jerkass]]: Cropsy, Eddy and Glazer.
* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]: Cropsy is killed with his shears, an axe, and his flamethrower.
* [[Leg Cling]]: After the raft is found and the remaining campers freak out, one of them is shown desperately clinging to another's leg.
* [[Male Gaze]]
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* [[Not Quite Dead]]: After Cropsy is stabbed in the back with his own shears.
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: Cropsy, and a few of the campers (like "Fish").
* [[Orderlies Are Creeps]]: One treats Cropsy like a sideshow attraction, trying to scare an intern by showing him off. He instead gets the shit scared out of him when Cropsy grabs his arm.
* [[Peek -a -Boo Corpse]]: When what's left of the raft is discovered, and when Todd stumbles onto Karen's body in the ruins.
* [[The Peeping Tom]]: Alfred.
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Eddy.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Todd.
* [[Red and Black Andand Evil All Over]]: Cropsy, due to the combination of his disfigured red skin, and black wardrobe.
* [[Red Light District]]: Where Cropsy finds the prostitute.
* [[Red Right Hand]]: Cropsy's burns.
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* [[Scare Chord]]
* [[Shirtless Scene]]
* [[Shot in Thethe Ass]]: Glazer, courtesy of Woodstock.
* [[Shower Scene]]: Sally.
* [[Silent Antagonist]]
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