Netflix’s top 10 movie list this week is topped by Aussie horror film “Run Rabbit Run,” which the streamer acquired out of the Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight section.
I saw Diana Reid’s indie horror flick in January. “Succession” actress Sarah Snook stars in a film centering on Mia, a fertility doctor who tries to make sense of the strange behavior of her young daughter.
The film is essentially a ghost story: Snook’s character lost her father and sister, and they keep haunting her. There are some jump scares added in for good measure. Reid mostly tries to make her film a mood piece, but it just doesn’t really work — the mise-en-scene falls completely flat.
This is the kind of film that would have barely sold any tickets if released theatrically, but Netflix, as they usually do, have managed to find a large-scale audience for this mostly forgettable trifle. The running joke these days is that Sundance should be renamed the Netflix Film Festival, here’s another reason why.
Netflix and Skydance Animation have also called it quits. The two sides announced Monday that they're ending the animated film deal struck back in 2023, framing it as a mutual decision.