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I know someone's out there. Hey there, listeners, welcome to horror movie club.

Show where two dudes who are not quite nerds but not quite nobs choose a horror movie

each week to rate and review.

I'm Brian.

I'm on the phone with Oshman and today we are talking about the burning from

1981, directed by Tony Maylam, written by Tony Maylam, Brad Gray, Peter Lawrence, Bob Weinstein

and Harvey Weinstein. Put a pin in that. Starring Brian Matthews, Leah Ayers, Brian Backer,

and Jason Alexander and in this film, after a prank on a summer camp, caretaker goes horribly wrong,

he returns five years later to seek his revenge. If you're new to the show, we're going to talk

about some spoiler-free background info on this movie for the first 15 or 20 minutes, and then we

will play a little musical interlude before we transition into spoiler territory.

So if you haven't seen this movie yet, you can hang with us for a while here, but once you hear that music,

it is time to duck out and go watch this movie on Shutter.

Ashvin, had you heard of this movie before?

No, I hadn't heard about this until you mentioned it, but I guess it's a pretty big popular film, right?

Yeah, I think it's a fairly influential slasher, an important part of that little slasher boom.

Yeah, when you think about the slasher boom, is it like really down to like a handful of years, like five years at the most?

Yeah, the period I often see cited is

1978 to 1984.

Oh, okay.

Would you put like...

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