Netflix viewers have become terrified after seeing a new Australian horror movie starring Sarah Snook.
Run Rabbit Run dropped on the streaming service on June 28, and horror movie fans rushed to tune in.
In the film, Snook, who is known for starring as Shiv Roy in the HBO drama series Succession, plays the role of a fertility doctor named Sarah, while Lily LaTorre plays her on-screen daughter Mia.
Few people were prepared for how the plot unfolds — and viewers took to social media in droves to complain about how “creepy” the film really is.
‘So creepy’: Netflix viewers have become terrified after seeing a new Australian horror movie starring Sarah Snook
Behind the Mask: Run Rabbit Run dropped on the streaming service on June 28, and horror movie fans rushed to tune in
A synopsis for the film reads: ‘Fertility doctor Sarah begins her beloved daughter Mia’s seventh birthday with the expectation that nothing is wrong. But when an ominous wind comes up, Sarah’s carefully controlled world begins to change.
Mia starts behaving strangely and a rabbit appears outside their front door – a mysterious birthday present that delights Mia but seems to leave Sarah deeply unnerved.
As the days go by, Mia becomes more and more out of herself, demanding Sarah’s long-estranged, hospitalized mother (the grandmother she’s never met before) and fraying Sarah’s nerves as the child’s bizarre tantrums begin to point her out. on Sarah’s own dark history,’ Heaven of horror reports.
It concludes, “When a ghost from her past re-enters Sarah’s life, she struggles to cling to her distant young daughter.”
Horror fans flocked to Netflix to watch the 2023 release before immediately taking to Twitter to share their thoughts.
One wrote: ‘Lawdddd, I’m watching Run Rabbit Run and chileeeeee my heart [was] beating so fast I had to pause it.”
Another added: “Watching this Netflix movie Run Rabbit Run… and it’s scary.”
And a third simply said, “We just watched Run Rabbit Run, and WHAT THE F***?”
The plot thickens: in the film, Snook takes on the role of a fertility doctor named Sarah, while Lily LaTorre plays her on-screen daughter Mia
Few people were prepared for how the plot unfolds – and viewers took to social media in droves to complain about how ‘creepy’ the movie really is
Alternate Look: Snook is known for starring as Shiv Roy in the HBO drama series Succession
Not everyone was so enthralled, however, as some viewers expressed disappointment with the film’s ending.
“The end of the movie Run Rabbit Run was horrible,” one person moaned, while another tweeted, “Run Rabbit Run. Meh. Nonsense end.’
A third person furious: “I just watched Run Rabbit Run and I thought it was really good TILL THE END OF THE MFING AND NOW I’M MAD.”
But it’s not the only Netflix horror that has left fans terrified in recent weeks, leaving viewers disturbed after watching the Spanish horror film Tin and Tina, a longer adaptation of a 2013 short of the same name.
The thriller, directed by Rubin Stein, is set in early 1980s Spain and follows the story of a woman who miscarries on her wedding day.
She is told by her doctor that she cannot have children and that her depression is getting worse.
Twinning: Netflix’s Spanish horror film Tin and Tina has also sparked a frenzy of ‘terrified’ viewers
Scary stuff: The film is set in early 1980s Spain and the story follows a woman who miscarries on her wedding day
But soon the newlyweds adopt twins Tin and Tina who follow strict religious teachings and share them with their new parents.
The twins bring an eerie and tense energy to the couple’s home as mysterious and violent events begin to take place.
And since it landed on Netflix, it has left people petrified.
One frightened viewer wrote, “I watched Tin and Tina on Netflix. Do you think the Shining twins were scary… you haven’t seen anything yet. They have terrified me completely and I will have nightmares for days.’
Another viewer shudderingly added, “I pray #TinandTina, don’t enter my dreams tonight. Can’t even bear to look at the second half when the house is so quiet. Why did I do this to myself.’
A third person said, “Have to watch a Barbie movie after watching Tin and Tina, that movie is so disturbing.”
Another added, “I haven’t had a movie in a long time that scared me like Tin and Tina.”