Rabbit Trap
Directed by Bryn ChaineyMarried couple Daphne and Darcy Davenport are two musicians who moved from London to a cottage in Wales to complete their new album. By accident they record a mystical sound never heard before and gradually disconnect from reality.
Rabbit Trap Ratings & Reviews
- stunderOctober 5, 2025Beautifully filmed with a mind-f of a movie
- adam3199October 1, 202587 minutes of slow burn folk horror. Excellent and unique take on the genre. Robert Graves wrote a book called "The White Goddess." It is terrifying and revealotory. This amazing incredulous history of Celtic pre-Roman history drenches this film. Well done.
- jackmeatOctober 4, 2025My quick rating - 4.8/10. Rabbit Trap is one of those films that had everything going for it on paper, with remote Welsh countryside, folk magic, unsettling strangers appearing uninvited, but instead of getting under my skin, it mostly just hovered politely nearby, hoping I’d interpret it correctly. It’s a slow-burn folk horror that simmers at a constant low temperature but never reaches a boil. Daphne (Rosy McEwen) and her husband Darcy (Dev Patel) are musicians who move to an isolated house in Wales to record weird atmospheric noises, which already feels like the setup for either a folk horror movie or a highly experimental 70s Joni Mitchell album. The sound design is, without question, the backbone of the entire film. Every creak, whisper, and gust of wind is dialed up to eleven, to the point where I’m convinced this script probably started life as an audio drama. The visuals match the ambition; bleakly gorgeous landscapes stretch for miles, making the couple look appropriately insignificant against whatever ancient force they’ve annoyed with their synth beats. Enter Nameless Child, played by Jade Croot — who is, notably, a girl playing a boy. The character is referred to as male, but the casting choice adds a layer of gender ambiguity that the film never addresses. Maybe it was intentional. Maybe it was supposed to be uncanny. Maybe I’m supposed to “see with my ears,” or whatever metaphor the movie kept nudging me with. Either way, it was one more distraction in a movie already allergic to clarity. The boy shows up at their home unannounced and immediately becomes that houseguest who overstays their welcome and starts rearranging your furniture. He traps rabbits, mutters mystical nonsense about fairies, and generally acts like an enthusiastic cult recruiter who hasn’t figured out his pitch yet. What baffled me most was how completely uncurious Daphne and Darcy are about this kid. No “where are your parents,” no “are you lost,” not even a casual “hey, why are you covered in rabbit entrails.” They just let him orbit their lives until he becomes an emotional parasite. The problem isn’t ambiguity. I like ambiguity when it feels like the film is letting me solve something. This felt more like being handed a locked puzzle box with no key and told to “listen harder.” I kept waiting for a payoff — a twist, a surge of horror, even just a definitive something — but instead the film stays in its lane of quiet symbolism and expects the viewer to decode ancient Welsh folklore without a guidebook. Ultimately, Rabbit Trap is beautifully made but emotionally impenetrable. I wasn’t scared. I wasn’t disturbed. Mostly, I just felt left out of whatever mythological in-joke it was trying to share. If there was a message buried in all that rustic atmosphere and rabbit fur, it escaped before I could catch it.
- ricomckeeOctober 5, 2025What did I just watch? This is movie that tries to create a horror movie from fairies. Hollywood- stop doing this because it doesn’t work. I don’t think the movie has a plot. I don’t understand the scenes or the connections. None of the characters were even likable. It was bad.
- Haider IqbalOctober 4, 2025Just an ok movie. I would say below ok movie.
- Oʂɯαʅԃσ RσყҽƚƚOctober 3, 2025Sound itself can function as a philosophy and dissolve into resonance. Horror isn't an event in this film but a condition. It destabilises the boundary between perception and possession. The acting is stellar, and Croot has an unnerving precision that shines. She forces you to endure ambiguity without the relief of folklore allegory.
- MischaOctober 1, 2025This was an interesting watch. Pondering what happened. Maybe I should watch again.
- Andy Davidson | folknhell.comSeptember 17, 2025A folk horror fever dream that's as powerful as Starve Acre but so very much more subtle
