The hair-raising trailer for Run Rabbit Run, the brand new Australian horror film starring Sarah Snook, is out now – watch it under forward of its June launch date on Netflix.
Snook – who has been fascinating audiences as Shiv Roy within the ongoing bombshell season of HBO’s Succession – leads Run Rabbit Run as a single mom who, whereas mourning her late father, turns into more and more disturbed by the unusual behaviour of her daughter Mia (Lily LaTorre).
The film was acquired in January by Netflix, which confirmed immediately (Could 10) a launch date of June 28. The official first-look trailer introduces Snook as grieving protagonist Sarah, who’s revealed to have had a sister Alice who went lacking when she was seven. Mia takes a liking to a stray rabbit (and an unsettling animal masks) – and turns into fixated on the concept that she is Alice.
Right now, Run Rabbit Run was additionally introduced as a part of the official program of this yr’s Sydney Movie Competition – constructing on its present success on the pageant circuit, at Sundance’s Midnight Part in January. Tickets are actually accessible for its Sydney Movie Competition screenings on June 10 and 15.
Filmed on-location in South Australia’s Riverland area, Run Rabbit Run reunites Snook with Aussie filmmaker Daina Reid following their collaboration on 2015 ABC sequence The Secret River. Others forged within the movie embrace Damon Herriman, Greta Scacchi and Trevor Jamieson.
Snook, who changed Elisabeth Moss in Run Rabbit Run in 2021, introduced “an thrilling unpredictability” to the position, producer Anna McLeish informed NME. The movie was a chance for Snook, flush from the worldwide success of Succession, to “personal and lead a movie in its entirety”, the Carver Movies co-founder stated.
“There’s hardly a body of the movie that Sarah’s not in,” she added. “Her work in Australia earlier than that had been actually achieved and actually superb, however I don’t assume she’d actually had that type of alternative to hold a movie to that extent… It’s actually thrilling for audiences to see Sarah Snook, notably worldwide audiences who actually establish primarily along with her now as Shiv, in such a special place.”
Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Sturdy in ‘Succession’ season 4. CREDIT: HBO / Press
Director Daina Reid makes her characteristic debut with Run Rabbit Run, becoming a member of forces with Carver Movies once more after the 2017 SBS crime sequence Sunshine. Reid can also be a fan of Aussie creator Hannah Kent, who wrote the script on Run Rabbit Run, McLeish revealed – even going so far as to journey to Iceland to see the place Kent had written her award-winning novel Burial Rites.
Reid “loves this house: she loves style… she actually loves stepping into the darker facet of it and the extra monstrous facet of all of it,” McLeish stated. Her work on The Handmaid’s Story – which earned her an Emmy nomination in 2019 – exemplified for McLeish how Reid may command “pressure and rigour”, and “observe a robust feminine character via to some fairly laborious locations”.
Run Rabbit Run lands at a wholesome second for Australian horror cinema, particularly movies led by feminine protagonists: You Received’t Be Alone and Sissy earned plaudits in 2022, as did Carver Movies’ Relic from 2020 (to not point out Elisabeth Moss’s personal The Babadook from 2014). It’s a small trade and plenty of of those filmmakers know one another, McLeish acknowledged, however she wouldn’t name this horror wave a motion that has emerged by design or via dialogue.
“They’re all completely different. Individuals will say some have strengths, some have weaknesses, however undoubtedly inside that exact canon of labor, I believe Run Rabbit Run will sit actually comfortably – which is thrilling to see.”