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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Sound has always been such a crucial part of creating a successful horror film. Whether a perfectly timed musical sting or the carefully orchestrated sounds of a head being bashed in, sound makes or ...

In the Welsh folk-horror “Rabbit Trap,” debuting director Bryn Chainey creates an disquieting acoustic atmosphere and guides his trio of actors to powerful performances. However, these flourishes ...

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 ...

A brand new British folk horror creation has revealed itself at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Rabbit Trap is the feature directorial debut of up-and-coming British-Australian filmmaker Bryn Chainey ...

“With your eyes you enter the world, with your ears the world enters you,” says Daphne (Rosy McEwen), an experimental music artist who has moved into a cottage deep in the Welsh countryside with her ...

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 ...

If you were to watch the first 10 to 15 minutes of “Rabbit Trap,” the fundamentally flawed feature debut of writer/director Bryn Chainey, and stop there, you might think you were witnessing the start ...

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 ...