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THE BURNING (Original Soundtrack)

Music Composed by Rick Wakeman

Serial# STV 81162      Varese Sarabande Records

Released in 1982                 Recorded in Stereo

Record is VG++, Cover is in VG+ CONDITION. Cover has slight ringwear and slight abrasions to the bottom corners.

Plot

The Burning is a 1981 slasher film directed by Tony Maylam, with music by Rick Wakeman. It tells the story of a cruel, alcoholic caretaker at a summer camp (nicknamed Cropsy, after the huge garden shears he carries) who falls victim to a particularly nasty prank which leaves him horribly burned and disfigured. Following his release from hospital, he returns to his old stomping ground and begins a murder spree.

The Cast & Crew

The movie was produced by the then new company Miramax Films run by Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein. Harvey wrote and produced while Bob co-wrote the screenplay. With a budget of $1,500,000, they set out to capitalize on the booming slasher film craze that was soon to fizzle out. They also hired makeup effects maestro Tom Savini who turned down a job for Friday the 13th Part 2 to do The Burning. The movie didn't fare well with the MPAA, who demanded several scenes cut to receive an R rating; one of these scenes being the notorious raft massacre scene.

The movie also gave some of today's celebrities their start. Future Academy Award for Best Actress Winner Holly Hunter made her film debut here with a very small role as "Sophie". She has very few speaking lines and is mostly just mingling with the main cast. Also, making his film debut is Jason Alexander featured through out, who is known for his Emmy nominated role of George on the famous television sitcom Seinfeld. In this movie, he has a full head of hair and shows off his comedic timing as he plays the cliched wisecracking camper, managing to survive the wrath of the Cropsy maniac. Also featured and certainly not forgotten (as he loses his fingers in the infamous "raft massacre" scene) is Fisher Stevens, also in his film debut. Most know him as Ben Jabituya from the 1986 movie Short Circuit. Ned Eisenberg, who would later go on act in over 40 movies Million Dollar Baby and TV shows (Law & Order, The Sopranos) , plays a bit part as "Eddy". Brian Backer is probably best remembered as Mark "Rat" Ratner from the classic teen movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, or from his stint in the Police Academy movie "Citizens On Patrol". Brian Matthews, who plays Todd, went on to star in several daytime soap operas, such as The Young and the Restless from 1983-1985.

Also starring Carolyn Houlihan, Carrick Glenn and Shelley Bruce.

Filmed in Western New York, according to the credits on the DVD. However, extras casting agent and location scout Mary Casilio Powell reports that the camp and river scenes in the movie were shot at various camps in Olean and Franklinville, New York while the infamous concrete ruins scene was shot in Model City, New York, a small town near Lewiston, New York.

UK Controversy

The Burning found itself at the center of some controversy in the early 1980s, when the British video label Thorn-EMI accidentally released the uncut version of the film on videotape rather than the slightly trimmed version passed by the British Board of Film Classification. The tapes were impounded under the Obscene Publications Act, and The Burning was added to the video nasties list. The two major scenes of contention were Cropsy's frantic mass-murder spree in the "raft massacre" sequence, and the sight of a pair of scissors piercing a woman's flesh in the post-title sequence.

Vipco released a truncated version in the early 1990s, missing about thirty seconds' worth of Savini's gore effects, but by 2001 the censor board was ready to pass the uncut version.

TRACK LISTING:

Side One: Wakeman Variations

1) Variations on the Fire

2) The Chase Continues

3) Theme from "The Burning"

4) Sheer Terror & More

Side Two

Devil's Creek Breakdown

The Fire

Doin' It

The Chase

Sheer Terror

The Burning (End Title Theme)

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