12 minutes. One bathroom. One very hungry tiger. What could go wrong?
Charles really needs to pee, but he's pretty sure there's a tiger waiting in the bathroom.
Direction
Everaers squeezes genuine dread from a single room
Practical Effects
Tiger presence implied through sound and shadow
Writing
King's Dollar Baby adaptation distills primal fear
Director
Leyla Everaers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a 'Dollar Baby'—Stephen King's program letting students adapt his stories for $1. Everaers was among the few international filmmakers accepted.
The tiger never appears fully on screen, following the Jaws principle: what children imagine is always scarier than any practical effect could achieve.
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