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First-time director Daina Reid throws a rusty shed full of horror tropes against the wall in its Sundance Midnight premiere. A surprising number of them stick. Fans of the "I love you, my son, but right now you're scaring mommy" subgenre are in store for a treat with Daina Reid's "Run Rabbit Run," which salutes, like a couple of other notables, a similarly themed song. Horrors, from Australia. Indeed, the top-hatted shadow of Jennifer Kent's "The Babadook" and the matrilineal mayhem of Natalia Erika James' "Relic," two other Australian women's debuts that premiered in Sundance's Midnight section, loom large here. , as have other breakouts like "Hereditary," "Goodnight Mommy" and even "The Orphanage." Too big, possibly, for Reid's film to fully escape a sense of diminished returns on her ideas that motherhood it's crazy, she protects or projects and pain is a ghost. Director: Daina Reid...