A girl and her autistic brother are locked in a house with a Tiger during a hurricane. On paper this film sounds a disaster waiting to happen and that was what I was expecting. Sometimes it's nice to be surprised by a film though and this was one of those occasions for me.

Once you have got over the standard opening which sets the scene, it really picks up the pace. Some of the scenes in the house are incredibly tense and the director is to be applauded for that in a genre where most things have been done before.

Although it's a film with a modest budget it is well made and professional. The acting is mainly just average apart from a believable and spirited performance from the lead actress Brianna Evigan. I liked the ending of the film which thankfully didn't undo all the previous good work.

Burning Bright is an intelligent, tense and highly enjoyable film that is a cut above many of it's higher budgeted rivals. Better than it's current rating of 5.9 would suggest. Worth watching.

"Burning Bright" is a straight-forward, simply told, thriller. With a hurricane approaching, a house gets boarded up for the night. Problem is, it's also the site of a future safari park, complete with a tiger, which gets locked in the house with a young woman and her autistic brother.

The title must surely come from the William Blake poem "Tyger". "Tyger Tyger. burning bright, In the forests of the night." In which, one of the significant themes is the question of how can God create such beautiful things and destructive things at the same time? If that theme is explored in this movie, only in the most simplistic way. Blake also touches on evil and its many forms. Here, we definitely see evil, and I found it interesting how they combined all its different configurations. The film presented us with nature's evil, man-kind's evil and evil from the animal kingdom. However, that is the extent of anything beyond a simplistic thriller.

"Burning Bright" gives us a damsel in distress and a young boy living in his own world. The tiger is hunting them down and our heroine experiences her fair share of close calls, ingenuity, and love for her younger brother. Briana Evigan plays the damsel, and exactly as you would expect her to - with sexy clothes, lots of sweat, fear in her eyes, and she becomes her own hero. She may now be relegated to the horror/thriller genre. Her autistic younger brother is played by Charlie Tahan, you will recognize him as the younger brother in "Charlie St. Cloud". The film does a good job of characterization to open the movie, and then we actually spend the majority of the movie with a real, live tiger - "burning bright, in the forests of the night."

In Montgomery County, Kelly Taylor (Briana Evigan) is ready to go to the college and brings her autistic brother Tom (Charlie Tahan) to a specialized institution. However, the bank informs that there are non- sufficient funds to honor her check since her stepfather Johnny Gaveneau (Garret Dillahunt) withdrew the money from her account on the day before. When Kelly arrives home, Johnny tells that he used the money to buy a tiger to his project of a safari show in the real state. Meanwhile the house is reinforced to be protected from a hurricane, and all the windows and external doors a covered by wood. When Kelly awakes, she finds that the starving tiger is inside the house and Tom and she are trapped with the ravenous animal. Sooner Kelly learns that Johnny has an insurance policy covering the deaths of Tom and her and she understand what is happening with them.

"Burning Bright" is a predictable, but also tense and engaging thriller. The plot has few characters and it is easy to foresee the whole situation, The boy Charlie Tahan is convincing in the role of an autistic child and Briana Evigan is very hot. In the end, "Burning Bright" is a pleasant entertainment. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Nas Garras do Tigre" ("In the Tyger's Claws)