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.