Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for Run Rabbit Run (2024) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Sarah Snook, Lily LaTorre, Damon Herriman, Greta Scacchi, Sunny Whelan, Naomi Rukavina DIRECTOR: Daina Reid CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bonnie Elliott MUSIC: Mark Bradshaw, Marcus Whale PRODUCTION: Carver Films, XYZ Films, Filmology Finance, Screen Australia, IPR.VC, South Australian Film Corporation, VicScreen, 30WEST, Soundfirm

Box Office Performance

Theatrical box office data is not publicly available for Run Rabbit Run (2024). This may indicate a limited release, direct-to-streaming, or a release predating modern box office tracking.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

PRODUCTION NOTES

▸ Production

Australian author Hannah Kent had been thinking of writing a novel based on a true story about a Scottish child who remembered a past life, and she started researching similar incidences. When film producers Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw, of Carver Films, asked if she had any ideas for a screenplay, she suggested using such a storyline as a kind of psychological drama. Kent was interested to imagine "what it would be like to be a parent of this child... in the mother and the alienation she would feel when a child didn't want her". The film was later developed in the horror genre.

In June 2020, Elisabeth Moss was attached to the project with XYZ Films and Daina Reid directing. STXfilms was distributing the film. Moss had previously worked with Reid on the television series The Handmaid's Tale. In December 2021, Snook was announced as on board the project after Moss had to pull out due to scheduling issues as STXfilms was no longer involved in the film. The following month Damon Herriman and Greta Scacchi were added to the cast, with filming starting in the same week.

Principal photography took place on location in Waikerie, in the Riverland region of South Australia, The film was produced by Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw for Carver Films. XYZ Films co-financed the film, also handling worldwide sales, with additional finance from Screen Australia, South Australian Film Corporation, VicScreen, and Filmology Finance.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Summary: 2 wins & 2 nominations total

CRITICAL RECEPTION

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 38% based on 100 reviews, with an average rating of 4.8/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Run Rabbit Run boasts some powerhouse performances, but they're largely overwhelmed by a thin plot and overreliance on stale horror tropes." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 52 out of 100 based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Leila Latif of Sight and Sound wrote, "For those not particularly steeped in the horror highlights of the past decade, Run Rabbit Run may make for a worthwhile watch; the direction, script and sun-dappled camerawork are all competent, bordering on elegant. But for genre fans, every beat is so familiar that the film feels like the ungodly creation of an AI that was tasked with blending Repulsion (1965), The Babadook (2014), Relic (2020), Hereditary and even last year's Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Nanny." Jourdain Searles of The Hollywood Reporter also noted the film's similarities to The Babadook and Hereditary. Searles said that the film was "moody and atmospheric" and "easily builds tension and dread", but "keeps hinting at depth that never comes. Director Daina Reid takes us through all the similar motions–hallucinations, mysterious injuries, bursts of violence in the most generic way possible. Even the symbolic white rabbit that appears throughout the film inspires neither interest nor dread."

IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio gave the film a C grade, calling it "a pile-up of banal horror tropes", but praised the film's cinematography.