Run Rabbit Run is an ultra creepy, and all around extraordinary, psychological thriller from Australia, featuring Succession's Sarah Snook; and a breakout performance from young Lily LaTorre.
Snook plays, Sarah, the divorced mother of Mia (LaTorre).
Whom, after finding a white rabbit, starts to take on the personality of a ghost from her past...her lost sister...whose memory she has buried deep within her psyche.
As she carries around a secret burden of guilt...which returns in the form of psychological torment- in what one can only describe as an act of divine justice.
At first, she is confused by the experience.
As she attempts to dismiss it via cognitive dissonance.
However, the ghost that has possessed her sweet, young, daughter...just won't let her live it down...until she confronts the dark secret that her soul harbours.
So it doesn't help that she is the only one left to take care of her mother...who is beginning to suffer the early stages of dementia...and was never able to accept the disappearance of her other daughter, Alice.
Whom Mia is adamant that she actually is.
This forces her to confront the idea that her sister has actually been reborn as her daughter...or, at the very least, that her daughter has been possessed by her ghost.
Because one of the two cases must be true.
Regardless of how hard that is to accept.
Either way...we watch as this psychological torment breaks Sarah down.
With Snook putting on a masterclass, on how to portray the tortured soul of a distraught mother, burdened by a lifetime of repressed guilt.
As we watch her go from being a functional fertility doctor- and loving mother- to a woman on the brink of insanity.
Fit only for the mental ward.
Acting aside...writer Hannah Kent has done a stellar job on the story.
Which seasoned television director, Daina Reid, has managed to fashion into a woefully dark, and atmospheric picture.
In only her second feature film, no less.
Her first film in 13 years, at that!
Judging by some of the harsh reviews...this film was either over the head of; or not fit for, your average Netflix viewer.
But if you are into creepy, psychological thrillers.
This is not a film you are going to want to miss.
Because it's a masterpiece of it's class.
8 out of 10.