After enduring the harrowing and traumatic birth of her tiny premature baby, Diane Sherman (Sarah Paulson) can be forgiven for being a little over protective but seventeen years later she seems ready for her daughter Chloe (Kiera Allen) to leave the proverbial nest and go off to college. Chloe has a sharp engineering mind many health issues, including asthma, diabetes and paralysis, leave her wheelchair-bound and means every aspect of her life is carefully controlled by her mother, including her studies, the food she eats and, of course, the many different medications she needs to take.

When trying to sneak some extra chocolates from the groceries, Chloe finds a prescription bottle in Diane’s name – a small green tablet that finds its way into her evening medication. Curious, Chloe starts to dig for the truth but she uncovers a dark and sinister secret, that is too terrible to imagine. As the film’s tagline states, you can’t escape a mother’s love.

Sarah Paulson’s career has been something of a slow burner but she has steadily carved out a pretty solid reputation as a veritable scream queen. Her ability to simultaneously portray a doting maternal figure and a simmering psychopath is always thrilling to watch and delivers it brilliantly here.

With a fairly small cast, the compatibility of the central pairing is key and they nailed it in their casting of Kiera Allen as Chloe. As a disabled actress, Allen brings an authentic vulnerability and underlying strength to the role, in much the same way that Millicent Simmonds did in A Quiet Place. Although this is her feature film debut, she holds her own alongside the ever brilliant Paulson and delivers a sold performance.

Unfortunately though, the strong performances from Paulson and Allen were not enough to make Run a winner. I’ll agree that there were a couple of interesting twists and turns dotted throughout but the rather lacklustre and predictable story ultimately lets the film down. Ultimately, Run its a good enough popcorn movie to warrant a watch but it won’t be one that you will want to revisit.

Run is available to watch on Netflix.