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Great in parts. but way too slow to get going and do what it was designed to do
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Well... not really.
Too many films - particularly slashers - are tiresome and predictable for this very reason; if audience expectation is challenged by
The Burning not launching straight into the usual murders every 10 minutes or so then good for it - and of course the patient viewer is then rewarded with some splendid scenes including the oft-mentioned boat/fingers sequence.
The lampooning around of the teens prior to Cropsy getting down to business is hardly that deflating for the movie, and not even that unexpected; after the nasty calamity of the opening death scene there's nothing wrong with a chunk of character building, and if
The Burning's victims are to be goofy teens then I'm afraid teens goofing around is what we must see.