Burning Bright (2010/Lionsgate DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: C Feature: B+
It has
not been the best of day for Kelly. She
discovers her step-father had embezzled her money into a tiger for his safari
park. It doesn't really help her when
she need to somehow find a way to take care of her 12-year-old autistic
brother... and on top of that, a hurricane is about to hit town and the house
is being boarded up. But the real
horror starts when she finds out the next morning she is boarded up with a hungry tiger in the house... caught
in a storm, with no weapons can she and her brother survive much less find
a way out?
Trapped,
Kelly feels trapped by her world. After
her mother died she became the only guardian of her 12-year-old autistic brother,
her step-father after swindling her money boards up her and her brother in
their own house with a tiger. As Kelly
struggles to find a way out she discovers her 'step-father' intend to collect
on her and her brother's life insurance, trapped in a house with a storm
outside, without saying she rather be in the storm than in the house with a
hungry tiger. But like the hunter stalks
his prey... the tiger is the hunter and Kelly is the prey.
Survival of the fittest, the law of the jungle, there is nothing simpler than
eat or be eaten, nothing more natural than predator and prey... and nothing more scary than of that fact. Of all the things man has created tools,
shelter, technology... strip them away is man no more but the same
and at the mercy of nature. Ironically all those things that protect the
characters from nature now traps them. This film takes an age old perspective and
returns the viewers a primal view of how sometimes the scariest thing is to be
trapped in your own home and being not able to get out. Extras include
trailers and making of featurette, 'Force of Nature'.
- Ricky Chiang
