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‘Rabbit Trap’ Director on His Folk Horror Sundance Film and Casting a ‘Ripped’ Post-‘Monkey Man’ Dev Patel

Debut feature filmmaker Bryn Chainey discusses fairies, goblins and Welsh folklore and casting a 'ripped' post-'Monkey Man' Dev Patel

Set in 1976 in rural Wales, “Rabbit Trap” centers on Daphne Davenport (“Blue Jean” breakout Rosy McEwen), an experimental electronic musician who, alongside her troubled husband and collaborator Darcy (Patel), has moved to a remote abandoned farmhouse in the countryside. It’s here where, equipped with a wild laboratory of analogue synthesizers, tape decks, theremins and very little else, they hope to finish Daphne’s new album while also finding space to heal after several failed attempts to have a baby. In “Rabbit Trap,” it’s via ancient spirits, disturbed after Darcy inadvertently captures a forbidden mystical sound never before heard by human ears while out recording in the eerie woodlands.

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