A Mad Libs horror movie where the blank spaces are filled with obvious tropes, Run Rabbit Run is disappointingly familiar. justbrizigs' review:
is an intriguing concept on paper: The past comes back with a vengeance against a young mother in the form of her daughter’s possession by her deceased sister. Butnever gets past the sensation of being a Mad Libs horror movie, where those blank spaces are filled in with the most obvious tropes.
Sarah is a young single mother and obstetrician, still mourning the recent death of her father on the day of her daughter Mia’s seventh birthday. Sarah is divorced from Mia’s father, Pete , who remarried a woman named Denise , who has a young son of her own who plays a bit too rough. Sarah and Pete seem to otherwise have a harmonious co-parenting relationship, and Mia seems like a loving young girl, referred to affectionately as “Bunny” by Sarah.
After the rabbit episode, Mia changes from happy and affectionate to distant and cryptic. She dons an unsettling, DIY rabbit mask to mimic her strange new pet, disavows Sarah as her mother and requests to be called by another name: “Alice.” She begins insisting that she visit Joan , Sarah’s estranged, elderly mother whom Mia has never even met, and who now requires additional facility care due to her worsening dementia.
, can’t seem to do much else with the concept beyond halfheartedly repackaging the familiar. It would be slightly more forgivable iflooked more decent or formally daring—some compositions, shot by cinematographer Bonnie Elliott, are at least striking in their placement of light and shadow. Otherwise, the colors are uninspired, stuck in various shades of muddy gray and sandy brown and merely mirroring the neutral tones of Australia’s desert landscapes .
in fact.But it’s less about it being simply annoying that so many modern horror films fall back on similar themes and more about how they approach them. Horror, long a lowly-regarded genre, has always been about something more than what it’s given credit for; the monsters and things that go bump in the night have always stood in for the horror of the everyday.
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