Common Sense Media Review
By Brian Costello , based on child development research. How do we rate?
age 15+
Eerie, unsettling horror tale has family trauma, violence.
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Any Positive Content?
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Violence & Scariness
a lot
Some injury detail: A deep cut on a character's hand from a rabbit is bloody. A young girl frequently gets bloody noses. A mother locks her daughter in a storage room drawer, and the girl attacks her mother, who strikes her with a wrench. Hallucinations of drowning, of blood on hands, of a girl being pushed off of a cliff. A mom accidentally slams a car door on someone's hand. A daughter strikes her mother in the head with her hand. Jump scares throughout. A mother expresses concern to school authorities that perhaps her daughter's unusual behavior is due to being bullied.
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Language
some
Occasional profanity. "F--k" used several times. Also "s--t," "piss."
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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking
some
Cigarette smoking. Wine drinking.
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Diverse Representations
a little
Racial and gender diversity in the characters, reflective of Australian culture -- including an Aboriginal Australian character.
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Positive Role Models
none
Sarah and her mother Joan have spent a lifetime trying to repress and avoid a traumatic event from Sarah's childhood.
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Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Run Rabbit Run is a 2023 Australian thriller/horror movie in which a mother must come to grips with her past when her daughter starts claiming to be someone from the mother's past. There are some violent moments, including hallucinations of blood on hands, a girl drowned in a river, a girl pushed off a cliff, and a mother striking her daughter in the forehead with a wrench after locking her in a storage shed closet. A young girl frequently gets bloody noses. A daughter slaps her mother hard on the head with her hand. A mother accidentally slams a car door on her daughter's hand. The movie also has jump scares, cigarette smoking, wine drinking, and occasional language, including "f--k." To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.
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What's the Story?
In RUN RABBIT RUN, Sarah (Sarah Snook) is a fertility doctor going through the grieving process in the aftermath of her father's recent passing. She's a single parent, raising her daughter, Mia (Lily LaTorre), with the help of Mia's father, Pete (Damon Herriman), with whom Sarah is on good terms. Mia's behavior takes a strange turn shortly after she finds and keeps a white rabbit. She makes and constantly wears a bunny rabbit mask over her face, draws the same disturbing image on all of her papers and homework, and then begins to claim that she is Alice, the 7-year-old sister of Sarah who went missing when they were kids while under Sarah's watch. Things get even stranger when Sarah reluctantly agrees to take Mia to see Sarah's estranged mother, Joan, who suffers from early dementia in a nursing home -- Joan believes that she's seeing Alice again. They stay in Joan's house and Sarah's childhood home, and Sarah must contend with Mia's increasingly disturbing behavior while also confronting traumas she has long held at bay.
Is It Any Good?
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This is a creepy and disturbing Australian horror movie that's a reflection on life and death, grieving and trauma. Run Rabbit Run makes excellent use of its Australian setting (somehow reminiscent of how the early Mad Max movies used the unique flora and fauna of the Outback to heighten the tension), and the acting talent, including Succession's Sarah Snook, is top-notch throughout. As young Mia, Lily LaTorre captures that spooky yet innocent quality that comes through when something's not right with young kids in horror movies.
What prevents this from being a truly great movie is an overreliance on the conventions and clichés of horror movies. There's entirely too much background mood music, which is distracting. Someone also needs to tell all aspiring directors at Horror Movie Film School to please knock it off with the "bloody nose" cliché. Some of the attempts at symbolism -- hallucinations of "blood on your hands" and the white rabbit -- are a little too on the nose. Still, the movie succeeds in conveying its uncomfortable themes.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about horror movies like Run Rabbit Run. How is this similar to and different from other horror movies that focus more on creepy and unsettling mystery than on violence and gore?
How does the movie explore themes of death and dying and the repression of traumatic memories?
How did the movie use music to heighten scary moments, or even the jump scares?
Movie Details
- On DVD or streaming: June 28, 2023
- Cast: Sarah Snook, Damon Herriman, Lily LaTorre
- Director: Daina Reed
- Inclusion Information: Female actors, Female writers
- Studio: Netflix
- Genre: Horror
- Run time: 100 minutes
- MPAA rating: NR
- Last updated: August 31, 2023
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