Run Rabbit Run is less than the sum of its parts, and even an excellent turn from Sarah Snook can't elevate the movie beyond its basest instincts.
Netflix's latest horror movie, Run Rabbit Run, an acquisition out of Sundance, has all the hallmarks of the genre fare seen in recent years. A grieving mother, a young child, and generational trauma. There's a discomfiting score punctuated by warbling strings that crawl under your skin. The atmosphere is moody. The normally sun-drenched Australian countryside is shrouded in clouds and dipped in grays and browns.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Snook's Sarah is a loving mother; in the opening moments of Run Rabbit Run, she dotes over Mia , stopping just shy of helicopter parent. Mia, on the other hand, leans into the creepy child trope immediately, asking if a person named Joan will be attending her birthday party.
Anyone familiar with Snook's recent work in Succession won't be surprised by her turn in Run Rabbit Run. Joan, the mysterious figure Mia keeps mentioning, turns out to be Sarah's estranged mother who was put in a home by Sarah's father before he died. A disastrous visit to Sarah's mom plants an insidious seed in Mia's head, one that may be manifesting in ways not grounded in the natural world as they stay at Sarah's childhood home.
After its set-up, Run Rabbit Run ticks all the boxes — creepy drawings, footsteps padding through a cavernous home, even creepier animals, misinterpretations of what Mia is going through, and the implication that grief over her father's death and her long-missing sister is causing Sarah to spiral. In this so-called era of elevated horror , Run Rabbit Run is, unfortunately, nothing new, a retread of genre elements that make it feel all-too-familiar.
As the movie nears its conclusion, though, Mia's antics become more grating than unsettling, something that is key to the film's central mystery. Is Sarah descending into madness or is something much more sinister at play? A third act twist reveals that it may be both and Snook delivers the revelation with the necessary terror and delusion needed to sell it, but the disparate strands of Run Rabbit Run never coalesce into something that feels like a cohesive whole.
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