I picked up The Burning recently, somehow I had missed this one over the years. I did like it for the most part. Anyway, I kept hearing about how people where distracted by Jason Alexander, George on Seinfeld. Actually he didn't distract me much at all. For me, a Huge distraction was Brian Backer from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, who played Mark "Rat" Ratner a year after The Burning. Everytime he was on screen, I kept expecting to see Mike Damone show up: "Hey Rat, I still have tickets left for Cheap Trick..I'll give you a great price". "Not now Damone, can't you see I'm being chased by a madman?" "Rat quit being a wussy. Hey bring him along, who doesn't want to see Robin Zander?


Sorry for my poor attempt at humor, and like I said I enjoyed much of The Burning, but when Backer was onscreen, it completely took me out of the film. I was wondering if anyone else thought about Fast Times a lot when watching the Burning?

I didn't have a prob with the casting of Brian Backer. I thought the commentary track was very enlightening I recommend it highly for fans of the film.

Holly Hunter is in the movie too.

as well as Fisher Stevens (later in Short Circuit)

as is the little girl that acted in the lead of Annie on Broadway

I don't remember anything about this movie. Would anybody consider this dvd a good blind buy?

If you consider yourself a fan of early '80s slasher films, I'd consider it an excellent blind buy.