Daina Reid

If you’ve been intrigued by Sarah Snook as sly Shiv Roy on HBO’s Succession, you may find it interesting to see how she tackles a very different role in this Australian psychological thriller. She plays Sarah, a fertility doctor, raising her daughter Mia (Lily LaTorre) as a single mother in suburban Melbourne. Ever since her seventh birthday when she ‘rescued’ a white rabbit, precocious Mia seems to be acting strangely and attentive Sarah cannot figure out why there’s been such a change in her behavior.

Run Rabbit Run is a clumsy attempt to capture maternal anxiety and the Gothic without fully fleshing out mood and atmosphere required and underwriting the protagonist (and ironically over-writing her in places). Run Rabbit Run could have benefitted from a tighter and more precise screenplay but instead meanders to an unsatisfactory conclusion that audiences most likely predicted before it happened, rendering the chill of it lukewarm at best.