City Cinema: Dust Bunny
Horror Thriller. 14A.
Dir: Bryan Fuller, US, 2025, 106 min.
Mads Mikkelsen, Sophie Sloan, Sigourney Weaver.
“Experiencing the film Dust Bunny is a little like falling into the greatest children’s book ever. The visually stunning modern fairy tale is all about Aurora, a 10-year-old plagued by a monster under her bed. Late one starry night she sees her mysterious neighbour (Mads Mikkelsen) slay a dragon, so she decides to hire him to dispatch that thing lurking under her floorboards. The monster may well have eaten Aurora’s parents… The mysterious neighbour – he’s an assassin – agrees to help Aurora, although like most adults, he does not believe in monsters under the bed… Dust Bunny is told from Aurora’s perspective, so everything looks fresh and dazzling and beautifully detailed…. The world looms large to children, something writer-director Bryan Fuller obviously never forgot… The assassin, meanwhile, has his own monsters to deal with, and as he explains to Aurora, these monsters are mostly all men…. This is macabre fare – funny, frightening and fantastical… May we all live happily ever after.” —Liz Braun, Alliance of Women Film Journalists
“Dust Bunny feels like a family classic in the making. Yes, it’s spooky, but it reminds us that we can always overcome that which frightens us.” —MovieWeb
