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 ...
Deep into Rabbit Trap, the directorial debut of Bryn Chainey, a character mentions that “with your eyes you enter the world.
A tradition stretching back to genre pioneers like 1973’s pagan freakout The Wicker Man, British folk horror can be bonkers (Alex Garland’s Men), hypnotically abstract (Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men) or ...
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 ...
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 ...
What's the difference between folk horror and cosmic horror? Those two particular subgenres of horror films are a bit of a ...
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 ...
Have you seen stories about 'Chucky,' 'Scream,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' 'The Boys,' 'Vanderpump Rules,' or any of 'The Real Housewives' franchises? That's probably a Britta DeVore-curated piece of ...
The actor stars as a curious sound recordist in an initially suggestive but ultimately too straightforward film, which marks the feature debut for director Bryn Chainey. In the Welsh folk-horror ...