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Hollywood Crime Scene

Summer Scares: The Burning

Hollywood Crime Scene

Rachel Fisher

True Crime, Comedy

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week we discuss the 1981 summer camp slasher, The Burning starring Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, and Holly Hunter. 


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0:00.0

Hello,

0:02.0

welcome to, what are we calling this,

0:05.0

summer scares?

0:06.0

July, summer scares. July summer scares.

0:08.0

It sounds like a magic mountain thing.

0:12.0

Yeah, it's a shitty new ride. Magic Mountain thing. Yeah.

0:13.0

It's a shitty new ride.

0:15.0

Magic Mountain.

0:16.0

And that little old man comes out and dances.

0:18.0

Remember him?

0:20.0

Oh, oh, the guy from Six Flags.

0:22.0

Yes. Yeah, yes yes yeah yeah that guy okay so we this year

0:28.1

we're doing an all summertime horror movie, and we're kicking things off with the cult classic from 1981, The Burning.

0:40.0

Right, because it's basically a rip off of Friday the 13th because it came after and it was

0:47.1

Harvey Weinstein's attempt to like monopolize on that success of that movie.

0:53.7

This story is unfortunately or this movie,

0:56.8

the story was created by Harvey Weinstein.

1:00.0

So like, yeah, I want it like not to be corny, but like one of the, the big jump scare in the beginning of the film is during the credit sequence.

1:08.0

When it says story by Harvey Weinstein.

1:11.0

Yeah, he made the treatment.

1:13.0

I read about it on the Wikipedia.

1:14.7

He like created a five-page treatment because Friday the 13th was such a hit and it was such a small

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