Dust Bunny [Movie Review]

Dust Bunny [Movie Review] | Amidst a mountain of work, I took a short break and went looking for something light and entertaining to watch. I wasn’t searching for anything deep, just a film that would let my mind rest for a while.

Then this one caught my attention.

It looked simple, slightly unusual and easy enough to enjoy without overthinking. Sometimes, that’s all a good break needs to be.

SYNOPSIS

Duct Bunny (2025) Trivia

• Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Sophie Sloan, Sheila Atim, David Dastmalchian & Sigourney Weaver
• Director: Bryan Fuller
• Producer: Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee & Bryan Fuller
• Production Company: eOne Films, Thunder Road Pictures & Living Dead Guy Productions
• Distributed by: Lionsgate & Roadside Attractions
• Release date: December 12, 2025
• Running time: 106 minutes
• Rating: MA
• Country: United States
• Language: English
• IMDb: 6.7/ 10
• Tomatometer: 85%
• Metascore: 73%
• This is Bryan's directorial debut. 
• The movie has an unusual screen ratio of 3.00:1, which makes it vertically claustrophobic. 

When you are small, the world feels enormous and alert, as if it is always watching you back. Corners hide intentions. Shadows breathe. Every sound after dark feels personal.

Aurora is eight, an age when certainty has not yet learned how to protect itself. She lives with her parents who care deeply but listen poorly, the way adults often do when a child speaks in warnings instead of facts. Across the hall, in unit 5B, lives a man shaped by night. He leaves late, returns later and carries silence like a second coat. Aurora watches him with careful interest, convinced that whatever he does after sunset matters.

One evening, curiosity pulls her beyond her doorway and into the city. She follows him to Chinatown and witnesses a dragon being killed. At least, that is how her mind frames it. The dragon is a costume and inside are armed men who fall quickly and without ceremony. Aurora does not linger on the violence. What stays with her is the certainty that monsters are real and that some people are trained to confront them. In her mind, 5B is a monster killer.

Soon after, another fear takes root. Aurora becomes convinced a monster lives under her bed, hiding in the floor, listening. She warns her parents not to step too hard, not to wake it. They smile, reassure her and promise that everything is fine. Adults often mistake fear for imagination. One night, Aurora says goodbye with unfamiliar seriousness. She wakes hours later to silence, destruction and absence. Her parents are gone. The floor feels awake.

With nowhere else to turn, Aurora seeks out the man in 5B. She tries to hire him using belief instead of money. He assumes the killers were after him, not her and that belief hardens into responsibility. He tells his handler, Laverne, that he will protect the child.

Violence follows. Hitmen arrive. One dies by hand. Another is swallowed by something beneath the floor. As Aurora helps erase the evidence, they narrowly avoid Brenda, a child protection agent who reveals that Aurora was fostered and has lost families before.

The truth surfaces all at once. Laverne admits she ordered the attacks. Another assassin appears. Everyone converges on the apartment. Then the monster emerges, enormous and merciless, shaped like a rabbit from a nightmare, consuming everyone except the girl who named it first.

Will they be able to kill the monster and be rid of Aurora's fear?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• I like the whimsical style and visuals of the movie - similar to Willy Wonka of sort. 
• Beautiful performance by the cast. 

What I Don't Like:

• The first part tends to get a bit boring - too much talking. 

Will I Watch It Again: Sure, I would.

Overall: 4.5/ 5.0

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