Daphne (Rosy McEwen) and Darcy (Dev Patel) are typical horror protagonists. They live alone in the middle of the woods, create niche music together, and are willing to do just about anything for their ...
The last decade of film has seen a variety of weird combos: Horror-Westerns; noir-comedy; horror-comedy; period-horror-comedy-action. You get the point. At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, director ...
There is a particular branch of British horror that has its roots deep in folk tradition and the clash between outsiders and locals, with a vein of the supernatural running beneath it all. The likes ...
In British writer-director Bryn Chaney’s feature debut, he uses Celtic folklore and the intimacy of sound to unpack a darkness that some might struggle to put in words. Set in 1973, Rabbit Trap stars ...
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Set in 1976, Bryn Chainey’s first feature centers on an avant-garde musician and her sound recordist husband living in a remote cottage, where a strange local child forms an unhealthy attachment to ...
Among another impressive stack of new horror titles looking to spook audiences at this year’s Sundance, “Rabbit Trap” joins a growing library of psychological folk horrors that have recently offered ...
This horror feature envelops us with its technical atmospherics, but don’t dig too far beneath that surface. By Brandon Yu When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our ...
The actor stars as a curious sound recordist in an initially suggestive but ultimately too straightforward film, which marks the feature debut for director Bryn Chainey. In the Welsh folk-horror ...
Deep into Rabbit Trap, the directorial debut of Bryn Chainey, a character mentions that “with your eyes you enter the world.