I don't get the title "Burning Bright"? seems to have no bearing on any aspect of the film to me.
The whole concept was very flawed, the film wasn't as bad as the story in my opinion, acting was good, direction good, effects and suspense all excellently applied, However.
Spoiler follows...The Stepfather goes to elaborate lengths to murder his step children and inherit the insurance policy that he thought he would have got when he murdered their mother some time before (making it look like suicide), I thought insurance policies did not pay out on suicides anyway?
So as it happens the inheritance is tied up to the kids..but they don't know about it yet.
The film starts by the heroine trying to put her autistic brother into a special school and the cheque bouncing because her stepfather has spent all the money on a tiger as he is converting their home into a safari park??? as you can see the grasp of reality gets lost early on. This bit of the story which took fifteen minutes to evolve now gets scrapped as the stepfather who happens to be having their home boarded in lieu of a hurricane that's heading their way.
He uses this as an ideal opportunity to board up the front door while the two children are in there just after releasing the lion (which we are repeatedly told) has been starved for two weeks to let him know who is master??
we then spend the next hour watching Briana Evigan (who is not too sore on the eyes) dressed only in her knickers and vest peering around cupboard doors to the point it gets ridiculous.
Quite often she leaves behind her younger autistic brother which I would think most grown ups would not do at any point, only to return in concern for his safety. Later in her journeys she finds a gun, a knife, five bullets, some sort of bar, meat and drugs (or drugged meat) but seems unable at any point to make any good use of them to either open a door or kill or even injure the tiger. The tiger whom seems to have no problem smashing doors down in this house of what must be forty plus doors.
at no pint did she think of barricading the tiger into a room, more she ran through a succession of rooms ultimately only being able to find security in a tipped over chest freezer that they felt a need to highlight its existence in the early film. Somehow studded walls, locked doors and glass partitions were no match for our Tony the tiger however a chest freezer is an impenetrable fortress which despite warnings on air supply she spent the night in with her brother and a lit lighter.
The next morning stepfather arrives unscrews the front door presumably with the intention of being shocked to find their mauled mutilated bodies which he was going to somehow explain away as accident this bizarre happening, but instead of finding that he finds all three alive and well...hey but you wont be surprised to find out that in a shock twist of events guess who gets their just deserts as suddenly...yeah you guessed it.
The whole concept was very flawed, the film wasn't as bad as the story in my opinion, acting was good, direction good, effects and suspense all excellently applied, However.
Spoiler follows...The Stepfather goes to elaborate lengths to murder his step children and inherit the insurance policy that he thought he would have got when he murdered their mother some time before (making it look like suicide), I thought insurance policies did not pay out on suicides anyway?
So as it happens the inheritance is tied up to the kids..but they don't know about it yet.
The film starts by the heroine trying to put her autistic brother into a special school and the cheque bouncing because her stepfather has spent all the money on a tiger as he is converting their home into a safari park??? as you can see the grasp of reality gets lost early on. This bit of the story which took fifteen minutes to evolve now gets scrapped as the stepfather who happens to be having their home boarded in lieu of a hurricane that's heading their way.
He uses this as an ideal opportunity to board up the front door while the two children are in there just after releasing the lion (which we are repeatedly told) has been starved for two weeks to let him know who is master??
we then spend the next hour watching Briana Evigan (who is not too sore on the eyes) dressed only in her knickers and vest peering around cupboard doors to the point it gets ridiculous.
Quite often she leaves behind her younger autistic brother which I would think most grown ups would not do at any point, only to return in concern for his safety. Later in her journeys she finds a gun, a knife, five bullets, some sort of bar, meat and drugs (or drugged meat) but seems unable at any point to make any good use of them to either open a door or kill or even injure the tiger. The tiger whom seems to have no problem smashing doors down in this house of what must be forty plus doors.
at no pint did she think of barricading the tiger into a room, more she ran through a succession of rooms ultimately only being able to find security in a tipped over chest freezer that they felt a need to highlight its existence in the early film. Somehow studded walls, locked doors and glass partitions were no match for our Tony the tiger however a chest freezer is an impenetrable fortress which despite warnings on air supply she spent the night in with her brother and a lit lighter.
The next morning stepfather arrives unscrews the front door presumably with the intention of being shocked to find their mauled mutilated bodies which he was going to somehow explain away as accident this bizarre happening, but instead of finding that he finds all three alive and well...hey but you wont be surprised to find out that in a shock twist of events guess who gets their just deserts as suddenly...yeah you guessed it.