Scott Graham's 2025 horror-thriller The Run turns an isolated homeschool routine into a slow-burn nightmare, watching a teenager's trust in her own mother come apart one small inconsistency at a time.
What is The Run about?
The film centers on a homeschooled teenage girl whose entire world is her mother's rules, her mother's lessons, and her mother's version of events. When small contradictions start creeping into that version — a locked room, a story that changes in the retelling, a reaction that doesn't fit the moment — the girl starts keeping her own quiet record of what doesn't add up. The Run leans on mystery and dread rather than jump scares, tracking how isolation lets a secret survive far longer than it could anywhere else. As the teenager pushes further into her mother's past, the film asks how much of what she's been taught to believe was ever true, and what it costs to stop believing it. Mark Stanley, Amy Manson, and Marli Siu anchor a small, tightly wound cast that keeps the story feeling close and claustrophobic rather than sprawling.
About the cast
Amy Manson and Mark Stanley lead alongside Marli Siu, Anders Hayward, and Scott Murray, a cast suited to a story that lives in small rooms and quieter confrontations rather than big set pieces.
Context & significance
Director Scott Graham works in the British genre tradition of turning ordinary domestic settings — a kitchen, a locked door, a homeschool desk — into sources of dread, and The Run continues that approach with a mystery rooted entirely in family rather than the supernatural.
Watching The Run on Ktime
The Run streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, part of a catalog built for the Iranian diaspora watching in Farsi wherever they live. All you need is a free K-Time account to log in and start watching — no extra steps, and the page itself stays open to read before you do.