Run Rabbit Run aka Rabbit/Fertile (2023) — REVIEW
That’s So RABBIT!
Run Rabbit Run aka Fertile and Rabbit (Run) is a psychological horror thriller that is only on Netflix, distributed by Carver Films. Plus, it is filmed and set in Australia because it is an Aussie horror film, similar to Talk to Me aka The Hand from A24. The film mainly stars Aussie female actor, Sarah S, and it is about a single mother and female nurse who investigates the strangely horrid behavior of her daughter, Mia, influenced by a deceased girl named Alice. There are not many positive messages in the film but Sarah’s Joan depicts determination, heroism, valor, and persistent need to uncover what is afflicting Mia who calls herself Alice and thinks she is literally her at this. Jane, Joan’s mother, is coping and struggling with dementia, afflicted by the death of Mia’s grandfather who was also Joan’s father. The film’s themes include mentalism/insanity/mental illness, PTSD, childhood trauma, and extensively strained relations between parents and offspring.
Most of the characters in the film are black and white Aussies. Violence and scariness in the movie include a rabbit chomping at Joan unnaturally and gruesomely, its constant eerie presences, Mia/Alice’s deluded and extensively deranged/anti-social (sociopathic) behavior toward Joan, vast augment scenes, smacking/swatting in faces, mentalism resulting from Mia being ominously influenced by the deceased Alice, Joan’s long lost sister, resulting in her expanded childhood insanity, and Mia’s blooded and bruised scar on her upper forehead. Jane’s dementia is one of the film’s themes of mentalism shown in the film. A male character is being referenced as being deceased. Most of all, Joan locks Mia in a room for her own mental safety. There are even various jump scares throughout.
The language utilized in the film incl. the S-word, the F-bomb, the P-word for urination (in the negative context used for the film), and the WH-word. The drinking, doping, and smoking content includes Joan smoking a cig on occasion and some characters consuming wine. For these reasons, I highly recommend “Run,” to age groups from late teens to adults, even whose who have certain mental disorders like dementia and/or PTSD to cope with.