{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshudderingpod.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fburning-summer-k1CuDfKH","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Episode 3: The Burning (1981) & Summer of 84 (2018)","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/914d94cf-fc19-4650-8dff-f497bc80d026/a0849ead-a597-464a-ba32-7393c619a957/shudderinglogowide.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/578780a5-93ac-485d-8be5-6a9189ca3cbe\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Episode 3: The Burning (1981) &amp; Summer of 84 (2018)\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"As we head into the second half of August and the spooky season approaches, we thought we'd seek out a little bit of last-minute summertime fun from the Shudder library. Our vintage pick this week is 1981's The Burning, a summer-camp slasher flick that went up against the mighty Friday the 13th franchise and... let's just say, got a little lost in the woods. While the film doesn't include any hockey masks, vengeful mamas, or brutal sleeping-bag kills, it does feature a very young Jason Alexander (a decade before his casting in Seinfeld) as well as some typically stellar FX work from Tom Savini -- who, at the time, was fresh off his experience on the first Friday film. And then, continuing the nostalgia trip in a slightly different way, Chris and Nick review the 2018 Shudder exclusive Summer of 84, a film that borrows heavily from Hitchcock's Rear Window and also gives off some serious Stranger Things vibes with its Reagan-era suburban setting and themes of boyhood friendship in the face of mortal terror. "}