The teens started a new journey into the summer camp, as some teenagers pull a joke on the camp's caretaker, Karoubi. The joke is already finding a terrifying path for these teens. Teens leave Karubis to die after they set fire to it, as the man returns again and starts wandering around a summer camp in New York State bent on killing them all.
It's a movie very much like Tolkien's writing: if you don't discover it in junior high, you'll never appreciate it the way it was meant to be appreciated again.
at a time when the subgenre was undergoing a boom & the market was saturated... The Burning does little to distinguish itself from the spate of other slashers with which it was vying for screen space