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.
Practical Effects
Real tiger + real house = genuinely sweaty palms
Acting
Briana Evigan sells absolute absurdity with straight face
Director
Carlos Brooks
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The tiger, named King, was a veteran of Gladiator and The Hangover—this was his most screen time.
Released straight-to-DVD despite theatrical ambitions, it found cult life as 'the actually good tiger-in-a-house movie' before Crawl or Beast existed.
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