The psychological horror film sets a disquieting atmosphere from the start but unfortunately loses focus halfway through The ...
Instead, the film starring Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen takes a shockingly steep dive into narrative tedium and ho-hum genre beats. What initially begins as a formally adventurous tale of a husband and ...
Bryn Chainey's debut, Rabbit Trap, doesn't always hold together, but its individual concepts show an intriguing new filmmaker on the rise.
“With your ears, the world enters you.” So begins Bryn Chainey’s “Rabbit Trap,” a vague but effectively unsettling slice of trip-folk horror about what happens when the world refuses to leav ...
“Rabbit Trap” is a bizarre, abstract, Lovecraftian take on the new-person-seems-nice-but-is-actually-crazy horror subgenre. The film has drawn apt comparisons to “Saltburn,” especially ...
One of this year’s offerings — the U.K.-shot Rabbit Trap, written and directed by Bryn Chainey — did that a little too successfully for some. Drawing on ancient folklore, fables and myths ...
Set in 1973, Rabbit Trap stars Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen as Darcy and Daphne, an influential musical couple from London who retreats to an isolated cabin in the Welsh countryside to finish their ...
Bryn Chainey’s “Rabbit Trap,” starring Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen, and Jade Croot, is a three-hander folk horror deeply rooted in Welsh lore and the precarious balance between humans and the ...
The Midnight strand at the Sundance Film Festival has come into its own in the last few years, showcasing films that push the increasingly conservative boundaries of genre. One of this year’s ...
Rabbit Trap is the feature directorial debut of up-and-coming British-Australian filmmaker Bryn Chainey, who both wrote and directed this film. Yet another extremely personal project based on his ...