Film Review – Silo

“Silo” isn’t a horror film, though it details a frightening situation involving panicking characters. It’s not exactly a suspense picture either, but it contains some of the most effective screen tension in recent memory. Director Marshall Burnette and screenwriter Jason Williamson embark on an unusual odyssey of survival, examining the real-world danger of grain entrapments, which isn’t something that’s usually seen on screen. Perhaps 1985’s “Witness” is the last major feature to detail the dangers of silo life. Burnette doesn’t have a significant budget to fulfill all of his helming dreams, but he arrives with a committed cast that works extremely hard to make every line meaningful, and there’s the central idea of “Silo,” which offers an original take on a disaster move, also exploring layers of community connection in rural America, giving the crisis a powerful emotional push at times. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com