2010 · drama · horror · thriller
Burning Bright
Directed by Carlos Brooks1h 29m2010
After her lousy stepfather steals her savings to buy a vicious tiger, Kelly loses all hope of going to college. But Kelly's situation worsens when a hurricane leaves her and her autistic brother boarded up in their house with the man-eating beast. This edge-of-your-seat thriller follows the gutsy heroine and her younger sibling as they struggle to outwit the ravenous predator and find a way to survive.
Our read: Burning Bright (2010) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded drama · horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme drama / horror, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
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