The Burning

The Burning is a 2011 American Horror film remake of the original 1981 Cult Classic Slasher film of the same name.

It is written by Luke Dawson, Stephen Susco and Donna Powers and directed by Andrew Parkinson.

It stars Rachel Taylor, Mark Ruffalo, Ryan Merriman, Maria Conchita Alonso, Reagan Dale Neis, Juliette Goglia, Penn Badgley, Sandra-Diaz Twine, Hunter Parrish, Casper Van Dien, Marshall Allman, Wesley Barker, Matt Barr, Chris Lowell, Cyril Raffaelli and Thomas Haden Church.

Summary
A Group of Male Youths at Camp Blackfoot play a prank on the Camp's lonely Janitor Mr. Cropsy and inevitably cause a large hawyire fire which engulfs him in his cabin and then sends him down into the river where he is left alive but severley burned.

From there Mr. Cropsy is taken to the local Mercer Gray General Hospital and from there escapes abducting the nurse overseeing him at the hospital and a prostitute who inevitably takes a ride from him.

Mr. Cropsy eventually murders the Mercer Gray Nurse and the hitchhiking Prostitute and incinerates their bodies in a cleansing fire.

Mr. Cropsy then proceeds back to the camp and murders all eight of the boys who set him alight and frames their killings on a friend of theirs who was merely a witness to Crospy's burning not a participant.

Eight years pass on and Camp Blackfoot remains closed due to the inexplicable murders which happened there.

However an ambitious architect re-opens the property and sells the camp rights to a completely oblivious city slicker Mr. Howard Ramsey (Thomas Haden Church) who re-opens the camp and attracts the Senior Class of Burruman High School California.

The Californian Party Hard youths are led by the responsebile yet beautiful blonde Michelle Arkanas (Rachel Taylor) who takes sense to an omninous presence surrounding the camp area.

A Pasedena family also takes up residence in a neighbouring cabin and a trio of out of luck prostitutes break down during a storm and are forced to take up the third cabin.

Soon enough one of the Prostitutes is killed by Mr. Cropsy before he fixes his attention on the family and Burruman Teenagers.

The film ends with Michelle and admirer Todd killing Mr. Cropsy via setting him alight in an old cabin he has built in the Camp Blackfoot woods where he stores the bodies of most of his victims.

Cropsy upon being set alight again does indeed run down into the river again however this time the burns are that severe and the pressure of the water either causes him to drown or just die from the burn wounds.