A fertility doctor's unshakeable convictions about life and death start to crack in Run Rabbit Run, a 2023 psychological horror from Australia and the United States. Directed by Daina Reid and led by Sarah Snook, the film uses a quiet suburban household to stage a slow unraveling.
What is Run Rabbit Run about?
Snook plays a doctor whose professional certainty about beginnings and endings has never wavered — until her young daughter starts behaving in ways she cannot explain. The strange episodes multiply, and what begins as ordinary parental worry tips into something closer to dread, pulling the mother back toward an unresolved chapter of her own past. Reid builds tension through restraint rather than shock, favoring long silences and unsettling domestic detail over jump scares. The film keeps its central mystery close, letting the audience sit with the mother's growing uncertainty about what — or who — is really in her house.
About the cast
Snook anchors the film alongside Greta Scacchi and Damon Herriman, with Julia Davis, Trevor Jamieson, Georgina Naidu, Shabana Azeez and young Lily LaTorre rounding out the cast. The ensemble stays small and close, which suits a story that lives mostly inside one household's rising unease rather than a sprawling plot.
Context & significance
Run Rabbit Run arrives as part of a wave of horror films built around motherhood and inherited unease, using genre conventions to examine what a parent might pass on to a child without meaning to. Its Australian setting and restrained visual language set it apart from louder, effects-driven horror, leaning instead on mood, silence and the discomfort of a familiar home turned unfamiliar. At 100 minutes, it is a tightly paced entry in the psychological horror genre rather than a sprawling one.
Watching Run Rabbit Run on Ktime
Run Rabbit Run streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, making it accessible to Farsi-speaking audiences who prefer to watch in their own language or follow along with the original English performances. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the film's page itself is open to read without signing in, in keeping with K-Time's Farsi-first streaming experience built for the Iranian diaspora.