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Rabbit Trap Needs More Than Technical Razzle Dazzle
The Sundance horror movie has a lot to say about repression, but you can’t really call it subtext when it’s literally screeched from minute one.
Set in the Welsh countryside and blasted through with sounds both natural and otherworldly, Bryn Chainey’s folk-horror mood-piece Rabbit Trap, which premiered at Sundance, boasts incredible technical confidence. It has to: The film follows two married audio engineers and musicians, Darcy (Dev Patel) and Daphne (Rosy McEwen), who’ve bought a rural home in the middle of nowhere, which will allow them to freely record and experiment with the dramatic sounds around them. Out of the fields one day comes a mysterious boy (played by a creepily fresh-faced Jade Croot) who brings with him tales of faeries and other myths of the region and quickly becomes unnaturally attached to the couple.
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