Despite his horrific injuries, Cropsy survives.įive years later, Cropsy is released from the hospital despite dealing with failed skin grafts and wears a coat and hat to hide his disfigurements. He runs outside, engulfed in flames, and stumbles down into a river as the boys flee.
The flames reach a gas tank, which ignites Cropsy and his cabin.
When the caretaker is awoken by the campers banging on his window, he gets frightened by the skull and accidentally knocks it onto his bed, starting a fire. 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. 7 1980 Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegation.While the film did not generate the interest nor revenue achieved by other slasher films at the time, it has since become a cult classic and received positive reappraisal from film critics. The Burning was theatrically released on by Filmways. Rick Wakeman, of the progressive rock band Yes, composed the score. The film marks the debut of Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, and Holly Hunter. Its plot follows a summer camp caretaker who is horribly burnt from a prank gone wrong, where he seeks vengeance at a nearby summer camp years later.īased on the New York urban legend of the Cropsey maniac, the screenplay was written by Bob Weinstein and Peter Lawrence, from a story conceived by producer Harvey Weinstein, Tony Maylam, and Brad Grey. The Burning is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Tony Maylam, and starring Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer, Larry Joshua, and Lou David.
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