Netflix is releasing today the horror and thriller Run Rabbit Run (2023), one of the genre surprises at the Sundance Film Festival this year.
The movie centers on fertility doctor Sarah who begins her beloved daughter Mia’s seventh birthday expecting nothing amiss. But as an ominous wind swirls in, Sarah’s carefully controlled world begins to alter. Mia begins behaving oddly and a rabbit appears outside their front door – a mysterious birthday gift that delights Mia but seems to deeply disconcert Sarah. As days pass, Mia becomes increasingly not herself, demanding to see Sarah’s long-estranged, hospitalized mother (the grandmother she’s never met before) and fraying Sarah’s nerves as the child’s bizarre tantrums begin to point her toward Sarah’s own dark history. As a ghost from her past re-enters Sarah’s life, she struggles to cling to her distant young daughter.
This is the debut feature film of Daina Reid, a filmmaker with a very wide experience in TV series having been behind episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale (2017–), for which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, Rush (2008–2011), Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012–2015), Hunters (2016), Space Force (2020–2022), Helstrom (2020), and Shining Girls (2022–). The Australian novelist Hannah Kent has been the writer of the screenplay.
The main roles in Run Rabbit Run (2023) are played by the 2-times Primetime Emmy Awards nominee for Succession (2018–2023) Sarah Snook, also starring in Brothers’ Nest (2018), Winchester (2018), and Jessabelle (2014), and the veteran Greta Scacchim known for Heat and Dust (1983), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Film Award for the Most Outstanding Newcomer to Film, Good Morning Babylon (1987), Shattered (1991), Fires Within (1991), Rasputin (1996), The Odyssey (1997), and The Red Violin (1998). Damon Herriman, Lily LaTorre, Shabana Azeez, Naomi Rukavina, Trevor Jamieson, Georgina Naidu, and Neil Melville complete the main cast.
The movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 19 January 2023, and it was also part of the Sydney Film Festival earlier this month. Netflix has worldwide distribution rights and has scheduled it for a digital release on 28 June 2023.
Watch the trailer for Run Rabbit Run (2023).
