- Director
- Tony Maylam
- Year
- 1981
- Country
- Canada, USA
- Runtime
- 91 min
Also released as
- A Vingança de Cropsy
- The Burning - Brennende Rache
- Žár
- Chamas da Morte
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The Burning
The best film on the prosecuted list. Savini's raft scene is why it was on it.
A summer camp, a caretaker burned in a prank, and a five-year wait for him to come back with shears. The formula is Friday the 13th and the release was five months later.
What lifts it: Tom Savini turned down Friday the 13th Part 2 to do this one. Harvey Weinstein co-wrote and produced it, which is now the first thing anybody mentions. And the cast includes Jason Alexander with hair, Holly Hunter, and Fisher Stevens, none of whom knew what they were in.
The raft massacre is the reason it was prosecuted: five kills in about twenty seconds in broad daylight, which is a piece of staging nothing else in the cycle attempted. It was cut in the UK until 2001.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted
The raft massacre, five kills in roughly twenty seconds in broad daylight, is the sequence the case turned on.
UK now Passed 18 uncut in 2001 after nearly two decades cut
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
Written about
- Tom Savini
The combat photographer who came home from Vietnam and spent thirty years putting what he saw on screen.
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