The White Rabbit
2025 · 20m
Directed by Anthony Warnes, Hannah Warnes
Genres: drama, mystery, thriller
A woman's peaceful forest run becomes a nightmare when she wakes injured in a stranger's secluded cabin — savior, captor, or worse?
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The setup screams elevated-thriller-by-committee—woman, forest, cabin, moral ambiguity—but I'm genuinely curious whether Warnes and Warnes have the nerve to actually *subvert* it or just execute it very competently, which is the opposite of interesting.
A taut 20-minute exercise in suspense craft that reads like it understands the genealogy of psychological thrillers; the restraint in withholding information and the formal control of the pacing suggests filmmakers aware of what Polanski and De Palma taught us about doubt.
The real pick here is likely in how they've staged the reveal or managed the power dynamic in that cabin—whether it's a camera choice, a sound design decision, or a single glance that recontextualizes everything—because on paper this is familiar terrain, but the execution detail is everything.
Festivals
- Spooktacular Film Fest for Horror & Sci-Fi 2025, Best of Fest
- Spooktacular Film Fest for Horror & Sci-Fi 2025, Outstanding Direction
- Spooktacular Film Fest for Horror & Sci-Fi 2025, Best Original Story
- Spooktacular Film Fest for Horror & Sci-Fi 2025, Audience Choice Award