Run Rabbit Run is the new project from The Handmaid’s Tale and Shining Girls director Daniel Reid, and after making its Sundance Film Festival debut, it’s coming to Netflix for a slightly different ghost story.
There are plenty of Australian horror films that have made their mark in cinema and are worth watching, and Run Rabbit Run joins the list with Sarah Snook, who you probably remember as the calculating and enigmatic Shiv Roy in Succession, who now has a very different role and one that takes her away from all that silent luxury and betrayals of the world of the award-winning HBO series.
The film casts Snook as a fertility doctor who lives with her daughter, who is a completely normal child, until her 7th birthday arrives and she begins to engage in increasingly strange and disturbing behaviors, leaving her mother desperate to know what happens and how to help him but also doubting the possibility that everything is in his head.
As in another of the great Australian stories, The Babadook, this is a story of perception, where nothing is as it seems and the truth can be much more disturbing.
Run Rabbit Run Trailer
The first trailer of the film shows Sarah, a woman who seems to have a perfect life but who is burdened with a family tragedy that happened years ago and which comes to light again when her 7-year-old daughter begins to act differently and to say that it is not her but Alice, Sarah’s sister who died at the same age that she is now.
When is Run Rabbit Run Released?
The film will arrive on Netflix on June 28 of this year.
The Cast of Run Rabbit Run
Sarah Snook, nominated for two Emmy Awards for her role in Succession, stars in this story, where she becomes a single mother facing a terrifying situation with her daughter. The film also stars Lily Latorre, who plays Sarah’s daughter, as well as Greta Scacchi, who has worked on movies like The Player and Emma, and Damon Herriman, whom we saw before in The Nightingale, House of Wax, and Justified.
What is Run Rabbit Run About?
The story, written by novelist Hannah Kent, follows a fertility doctor who is the single mother of a 7-year-old girl. Sarah believes in science and is sure that life ends when we die and there is nothing else after, but it starts to change when, after her birthday, her daughter starts talking about a past life, claiming it is Sarah’s sister, who died at age 7, and having increasingly strange and dangerous behaviors.
Desperate to help her daughter, Sarah must confront her own past and her own beliefs to uncover the truth, while trying not to lose her mind in the process.
Ryan Lattanzio, the IndieWire reviewer who was able to see the film at Sundance, wrote about it: “[‘Run Rabbit Run’] falls very much out of the playbook of similar recent horror titles about mothers tormented by grief and grief. trauma that they face from supernatural events that confront them with their strained relationships with their own mothers and children. The saving grace that makes ‘Rabbit’ worth it is Sarah Snook, who plunges right into ‘Babadook,” “Black Swan’, and even ‘Revulsion’ territory in the film’s final takedown.
