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Burning Bright (2010) 5.7
A thriller centered on a young woman and her autistic little brother who are trapped in a house with a ravenous tiger during a hurricane. Director:Carlos BrooksWriters:Christine Coyle Johnson (screenplay), Julie Prendiville Roux (screenplay), 3 more credits » |
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In Montgomery County, Kelly Taylor is ready to go to college and takes her autistic brother, Tom, to a specialized institution. However, the bank informs her that she does not have sufficient funds in her account to honor her check. Her stepfather, Johnny Gaveneau, withdrew the money from her account the day before. When Kelly arrives home, Johnny reveals that he used the money to buy a tiger for his 'safari show' project. In addition he has the house reinforced, in order to protect it from hurricanes, so all the windows and external doors are covered with wood. When Kelly awakes, she finds that the starving tiger is inside the house and Tom and she are trapped with the ravenous animal. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Rated PG-13 for terror/violence and some language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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[bangs cage, the tiger growls]
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Written and Performed by Dan Janisch
Published by I Gotta Quit Smoking Music (ASCAP)
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Johnny Gaveneau: Man makes his own luck! Isn't that right, Lucifer?[bangs cage, the tiger growls]
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"Medicine Man"Written and Performed by Dan Janisch
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It takes its title from a famous William Blake poem about a tiger but it really should be titled "Sweaty Girl in Underwear in Despair as She's Being Chased by Nightmare Kitten from Zaire". Or if that is a bit too long how about simply "Sweaty Underwear Model in Distress"? The camera loves her and it's for the better. The film is more cautious about showing footage of the tiger and it's for the better. Not that the tiger isn't convincingly menacing but, you know...'Jaws'.
It's a pretty basic flick even though it has a not too gripping 40 minutes to set up the convincing-enough situation that involves Meat Loaf as the seller of the tiger in the opening scene and who sets up the tiger as the most viciously intelligent beast the world has ever seen by telling a story about how the tiger killed people and a horse at a circus.
When the autistic boy was introduced who started screaming and hitting his own head merely because he got touched on his arm by his sister alarm bells went off. That boy trapped in a house with a tiger? Well, this is going to be an excruciating experience. Astonishingly enough it turned out to be bearable even though in one scene he sits down at the kitchen table and yells "WANT EAT! WANT EAT NOW!" while his sister fights for them to stay alive with a roaming about tiger in the house.
Overall it's a fun enough time with a few nicely played jump scares and one stand-out sequence in which Sweat Girl grabs onto her wet life in a slippery pipe that leads from the ceiling up to the next floor. When one of her precious sweat drops hits the floor the lucky beast licks it up, discovers her in the pipe and reaches for the stressed steamy meat so with all her might she tries to climb up to reach the opening before the tiger reaches her wet ass. It's like a rapidly edited puzzle comprising of a lot of close-ups (see 'Psycho' shower scene).
6 drops of sweat out of 10