#The Burning

[asoftepiloguemylove]

i've polished this anger and now it's a knife

rubyetc.com / unknown / @/rbhvleo (tumblr) / Venetta Octavia The Burning / David Lynch The Angriest Dog in the World / Japanese Breakfast Boyish / unknown / @/jovialtorchlight (tumblr)

i. rubyetc

[ Messy drawing of two hands holding a bird. "HOLD ME, / NICELY, / I'M UNLOVELY" ]

ii. unknown

[ Black and white background image of people fighting. A man kneels down holding his head with his right hand in front of the audience. Right behind him is another man raising his fist in a punch. People lay on top of each other in the background. "WHY ARE YOU FULL OF RAGE?" ]

iii. @/rbhvleo

[ "TELL ME WHERE TO PUT THE ANGER / TELL ME WHERE TO PUT THE ANGER / TELL ME WHERE TO PUT THE ANGER" ]

iv. Venetta Octavia, The Burning

[ "You are shaking fists & trembling teeth. I know: You did not mean to be cruel. That does not eman you were kind." ]

v. David Lynch, The Angriest Dog in the World

[ Stylized drawing of a tied up dog in the backyard of a house. "The dog who is so angry he cannot move. He cannot eat. He cannot sleep. He can just barely growl. / ...Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis." ]

vi. Japanese Breakfast, Boyish

[ "And all of my devotion turns violent" ]

vii. unknown

[ "You are / a better knife / than you are / a person." ]

vii. @/jovialtorchlight

[ "once you understand the form kill it / once you understand the form kill it / once you understand the form kill it / once the form is dead hold it and weep / once the form is dead hold it and weep / once the form is dead hold it and weep / once the form is dead hold it and weep / once the form is dead hold it and weep / once the form is dead hold it and weep / once you have wept for the dead whatever / once you have wept for the dead whatever / once you have wept for the dead whatever / once you have wept for the dead whatever / once you have wept for the dead whatever / once you have wept for the dead whatever / HOLD THE LAST LIGHT AND MOLD IT / HOLD THE LAST LIGHT AND MOLD IT / HOLD THE LAST LIGHT AND MOLD IT / HOLD THE LAST LIGHT AND MOLD IT" ]

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: slasher

[thesoldiersminute]

The Burning 1981 | Tony Maylam

[weirdlookindog]

The Burning (1981)

[lonelyzarquon]

The Burning (1981) dir. Tony Maylam

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[classichorrorblog]

The Burning (1981)

[cronengirly]

"in the '80s the film was labeled a 'video nasty' in the United Kingdom" oh so it was good then

[389]

Thanks @sleepythug for tagging me to share fav first watches of May!

La Chimera, dir. Alice Rohrwacher God's Own Country, dir. Francis Lee The Burning, dir. Tony Maylam Manila in the Claws of Light, dir. Lino Brocka

tagging; @mrsterlingeverything @dorfs @elixir @kristina100000 @symmetryofemptyspace @capacity2 @ax-ky and anyone else I missed get tagged xx <3

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[texaschainsawmascara]

The Burning (1981)

[goryhorroor]

video nasties was a colloquial term coined in the united kingdom by 1982 which originally applied to a number of films distributed on video cassette that were criticized for their violent content by the press, commentators such as mary whitehouse, and various religious organizations. 

while violence in films released to cinemas had received attention from an official body, the british board of film censorship, for many years, the lack of a regulatory system for video sales combined with the claim that any film could fall into children's hands led to public debate. many of these "video nasties" were low-budget horror films produced in italy and the united states. the furore created by the response to video nasties led to the introduction of the video recordings act 1984 which imposed a stricter code of censorship on videos than was required for cinema release. several major studio productions ended up being banned on video, falling within the scope of legislation designed to control the distribution of video nasties. due to a legislative mistake discovered in august 2009, the video recordings act 1984 was repealed and re-enacted without change by the video recordings act 2010.

[crystalromana]

[cronennerd]

HORRORS UNDER THE SUN (2/2)

Death in the desert: Punishment Park (1971), dir. Peter Watkins & The Hills Have Eyes (1977), dir. Wes Craven

Stay out of the lake: Lake Placid (1999), dir. Steve Miner & Piranha 3D (2010), dir. Alexander Aja

Summer romance gone wrong: Stranger by the Lake (2013), dir. Alain Guirdaudie & Piggy (2022), dir. Carlota Pereda

Southern gothic: The Night of the Hunter (1955), dir. Charles Laughton & Eve's Bayou (1997), dir. Kasi Lemmons

Summer camp slaughter: The Burning (1981), dir. Tony Maylam & Sleepaway Camp (1983), dir. Robert Hiltzik

[slashericons]

Todd — The Burning (1981)