The Australian psychological horror that came out in January 2023 has been directed by director Daina Reid with the screenplay written by Hannah Kent. The film does not have an elaborate cast starring actress Sarah Snook as Sarah, Lily LaTorre as Mia, Damon Herriman as Peter, and Greta Scacchi as Joan. Apart from them, the movie only has small supporting roles from other cast members.
Run Rabbit Run initially premiered at the Sundance Film Festival early this year, and very recently got added to Netflix’s list of movies. The story of the movie follows Sarah, a fertility doctor and mother to Mia, who starts making strange claims saying that she is Alice, Sarah’s sister who had gone missing when the two were kids.
When Mia continues to claim that she is, in fact, Sarah’s long-lost sister, Sarah feels like she has started losing herself. She starts imagining things, her apparent hallucinations getting stronger until she starts acting violently toward her child.
The movie swiftly manages to confuse the viewers, making them question Sarah’s reality and what is real and what is not. Fans of psychological thrillers would enjoy this entertaining piece, the ending of which will surely leave you with goosebumps all over.
Almost everything about the movie, from its direction to its script and its casting, is amazingly done, but for many, the plot falls short and feels much like a B-grade horror film which has taken all of its horror tropes from a bunch of other similar thrillers and put it into motion in Run Rabbit Run.
One story arc within the movie that of Alice left many confused; if you want to find out what happened to her in the film, then continue scrolling till the end.
What Happened To Alice In Run Rabbit Run?
The movie reveals what happened to Alice during one of Sarah’s hallucinations where we see that Alice died when she was seven because she had gotten into a physical fight with her sister, Sarah, who eventually hit her with a rabbit trap, causing heavy bleeding and pushing her off the edge of a cliff, eventually killing her.
We know that Sarah was Mia’s mother and Mia was her daughter, who after some time starts claiming that she is not Mia but Sarah’s lost sister, Alice. To add to this terrifying claim, Mia, who now identifies as Alice, also starts claiming that her grandmother, or Sarah’s mother, is her mother.
Mia, or Alice, insists on meeting with her grandmother/ claimed mother, going against Sarah, who does not wish to see her mother. But it is as Sarah finally gives in to her wishes and takes her to meet her grandmother, Mia gets more convinced that she is, after all, Alice. Throughout the time the mother-daughter duo remains at Sarah’s mother’s house, Mia makes it a point to haunt Sarah.
As we go further into the movie, Mia’s behavior turns more problematic, and the claim that she is Alice also gets stronger, as she forces her mother to put Alice’s clothes on her and that she wishes to stay in Alice’s old room where she used to stay before she went missing forever. Mia, in Alice’s clothes, continuously follows Sarah with an almost evil intention, and Sarah cannot help but lose her mind a little, not being able to figure out if Mia is actually Alice, who has come back, or if she is Mia herself.
Sarah’s Hallucinations And The Big Reveal
Sarah, while in her room, has a vision where she sees herself hitting her young sister badly and then pushing her off the cliff where their house stands. Mia goes missing, and Sarah and her ex-husband eventually find her hidden in some bushes in the garden.
But Sarah sees more than just Mia; she spots a silhouette of Alice, and on the same night, Mia pushes her mother enough to confess that she is a monster, letting the viewers know that Sarah was in some way involved in Alice’s disappearance.
The movie ends with a new day and Sarah looking out the window only to spot her daughter, Mia, and a vision of Alice walking toward the edge of the cliff, hand in hand. The answer to the question: what exactly went wrong with Alice or what caused her disappearance lies in the movie itself.
The vision that Sarah has where she sees herself closing the door to the cupboard where she knows Alice is hiding and locking it from outside, stopping the latter from coming out, is what led to her disappearance. Joan, Sarah’s mother, still hopes that her lost daughter will return to her one day, even though she knows that will not happen. Another thing that Joan is sure of is that Alice’s disappearance is in some way tied to Sara, just that the latter refuses to tell her, which has damaged their relationship for good.
What actually happened to Alice was that when she finally managed to come out of the locked cupboard where she had been hiding for a game of hide and seek, she got into a fight with Sarah, knowing that she was the one who had locked her there. Sarah, in anger, hit Alice really hard with a rabbit trap which caused her to lose consciousness. The state of Alice, with her bruises and blood oozing all over, got Sarah really scared.
Fearing punishment from her mother, Sarah dragged her sister’s probably still alive but slightly unconscious body and threw her off the cliff, below, which flowed the Murray River. Alice’s body must have either sunk to the depths of the river, or it would have been caught and dragged by the currents far away from their house.
With her body never found, and the horrifying fact that Sarah killed her own sister, she probably had repressed these memories deep within, hoping to run away from the act and the guilt of it.
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