Dust Bunny is hitting theaters this weekend.
Here’s the synopsis: “In visionary creator Bryan Fuller’s fantastical and wickedly inventive feature directorial debut Dust Bunny, a 10-year-old girl joins forces with her hit man neighbor to confront each other’s monsters. Ten-year-old Aurora has a mysterious neighbor (Mads Mikkelsen) who kills real-life monsters. He’s a hit man for hire. So, when Aurora needs help killing the monster she believes ate her entire family, she procures his services. Suspecting that her parents may have fallen victim to assassins gunning for him, Aurora’s neighbor guiltily takes the job. Now, to protect her, he’ll need to battle an onslaught of assassins ― and accept that some monsters are real.”
The cast also includes Sigourney Weaver, David Dastmalchian, and Sophie Sloan.
Critics have begun weighing in about the movie!
Keep reading to find out more…
Dust Bunny currently has an 85% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The New York Times says: “Confidently directed by Fuller, a TV veteran making his feature filmmaking debut, Dust Bunny is a blast of delightful, visually sumptuous nonsense.”
Slant gave it 1.5 out of 4, writing: “The film’s writing is the sort that begs you to find it cute and quirky, which makes it quite grating if you don’t.”
Bloody Disgusting gave it 4.5 out of 5, writing: “Humor, horror, and heart collide in an infectious fairy tale of a movie, yielding one of the strongest gateway horror movies to come along in a long while.”
TheWrap says: “Designed as a horror movie for the entire family, the film has its scares, but it’s just too wacky and too much fun to be disturbing.”
IndieWire gave it a B, writing: “Mikkelsen, in one of the most tender performances of his career, and Sloan, whose expressive eyes stay impossibly wide for the duration of the film, craft an easy chemistry together, his mordant humor matching hers like a glove.”
The Daily Beast says: “Blending horror and humor, sweetness and scares, and fantasy and family melodrama, it shoots for the moon—and, more often than not, scores a bullseye.”
