The Burning is a Friday The 13th clone with effects by Tom Savini, who contributes numerous grisly sequences as well as the make-up for the villainous Cropsey, a janitor horribly burned in a prank gone awry. The films most notorious sequence is the raft massacre, where Cropsey takes his revenge on 5 teenagers with his weapon of choice a pair of garden shears. In about a minute of screen time, throats are slit and fingers are hacked off, all of which became a bone of contention for the BBFC. When Thorn-EMI released the film uncut in the 1980s, it was impounded under the Obscene Publications Act and placed on the Video Nasties list. A decade later, Vipco released the film on home video but were obliged to remove 30 seconds of footage. The film was finally released uncut in 2001.