ReviewAge - Beoning / The Burning

From IMDB

1981 - A former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong, lurks around an upstate New York summer camp bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement.

2018 - Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood as him, who asks him to look after her cat while on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.

So the original THE Burning is a horror film I saw when I was about 12 and one of the ones that got me into horror cinema in the first place. I understand it's not amazing but it's a special film to me.

What is wrong?

1981 - If you accept it for what it is there is not a lot wrong with it. The major Hollywood stars (Jason Alexander, Holly Hunter) ruin it. You also need to see an uncut version which was quite hard to do at one point. Not sure of the state of things now. Probs easy/

2018 - It's far too long. If you are being kind it can be called 'slow burning'. They seem to have totally missed the point of the original. No garden shears.

The story.

1981 - A man gets burnt. Kills people.

2018 - A man meets a girl from school who used to be ugly but is now nice. Something to do with cats. She goes on holiday and comes home with Glen from The Walking Dead. They do stuff. Ambiguity follows for approximately 8 hours.

The acting.

1981 - Superb. Lots of implied terror and internal acting.

2018 - A man walking around with his mouth open looking special and doing a few wanks. Glen from The Walking Dead looking smug. Korean Zoey Deschanel.

The visuals.

1981 - Fantastic effects by master of the art Tom Savini. All practical. Non of that Pixar shit. Blood everywhere

2018 - Looks like Walsall on a rainy day. Blood on a sweatshirt.

Sounds.

1981 - The man from Yes provides a superb score which you can still buy on vinyl today nearly 40 years later. It's that good.

2018 - There was some good music in the kitchen when Glen from The Walking Dead was making pasta for about 40 minutes. Despite being in and around Gangnam there was no Psy which seems like a wasted oportunity is it might have lifted the film up a bit in the middle. They could have done the horse dance thing rather than making pasta.

In short. 1981 is a fantastic little film about a man who gets burned by some kids and is a bit miffed about it. Without it we would have had no Seinfeld or Broadcast News. 2018's remake takes everything that made the first one good away and replaces it with a four hour epic where a man makes pasta and might be setting fire to greenhouses, another man wanks a lot and might be feeding a cat, and a women might have gone on holiday. Oh and they made if foreign as well so you have to do reading.

Stick with the original in this case. They didn't even spell the title right in the remake.

Don't breathe he'll hear you. Don't move you're dead !!