Rabbit Trap

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Rabbit Trap

Sep 2025

1h 28m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Darcy (Dev Patel) and Daphne (Rosy McEwen) Davenport are freshly decamped from London and taking up residence in an isolated cottage deep in the Welsh countryside in search of creative renewal and acoustic inspiration. When the couple set about exploring their new environs, recording instruments in tow, Darcy stumbles upon a "faerie circle" that emits a strange, unidentifiable frequency; this odd discovery is followed closely by the appearance of an otherworldly child (Jade Croot) who claims to live nearby and is eager to befriend the Davenports. Soon the child becomes a fixture in their household, alternately ingratiating himself and raising suspicions, and exposing unacknowledged rifts and unexamined secrets that threaten to wreak psychological and spiritual havoc in the lives of his makeshift adoptive parents.

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Critics Consensus

A bold creative swing that doesn't quite connect, Rabbit Trap captures the attention with its hypnotic soundscape but can't maintain its hold due to a disappointingly thin story.

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Brandon Yu

New York Times

Sep 11

There’s so little substance underlying the suspense that when you finally get your “aha” answers, you’re left wondering why you came into the woods in the first place.

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William Repass

Slant Magazine

Sep 9

3/4

It’s when the film plays in the gaps between sound and image that it’s most disturbing.

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Siddhant Adlakha

Variety

Feb 3

Coasts on its interpretability alone.

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Dustin Chang

Floating World

Oct 29

Verging on magic realism, the moss and fungus invading the interior of the cottage as Davenports are put under the spell of the child is truly a wonder (thanks to production designer Lucie Red). Patel and McEwen have terrific chemistry together.

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Nicholas Bell

Fish Jelly Films (YouTube)

Oct 23

2.5/5

Reconciliation leads to ambiguous transformation in arthouse folk horror Rabbit Trap, which is ultimately too speculative to generate the emotional terror which could have better sustained its glacial pacing.

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Erik Childress

Movie Madness Podcast

Sep 24

1.5/4

Anytime a character has a big microphone it is an invitation for us to lean in and listen, but it ultimately comes off like ASMR lulling us to sleep

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Norm V

Sep 17

Very dry horror that is hard to understand.

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Will

Sep 17

Definitely an interesting vibes movie, but kinda fell apart at the end.

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christine i

Sep 12

Very strange story. But the acting was great.

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Earl K

@Bigshow 4d

So sick of sitting and wasting time watching crap, I could write a better horror movie in the same amount of time it would take me to take a crap, which is what this film is, please don’t watch it, do anything else but waste time on this crap, pathetic, stupid, waste of time.

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Vincent S.

@Vin_E_At_The_Movies Dec 8

This movie lost me 45 minutes in. I love the atmosphere and the sound design but I couldn’t get into the characters and the intriguing first half turns into boredom.

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Etienne R

Nov 27

I was fully immersed. This is how to tell faerie stories. Bonkers good writing and execution to bind the trauma narrative to the faerie story. The film did a bunch of ambiguity between which story was being developed at any given moment, and put in no work to hold your hand through which bits are diagetic and which are expressions of the emotions. I don't want my hand held by a film - Marvel covers that market. If you can't handle ambiguity in a faerie story, you probably shouldn't jump online and review it. The d&d, fantasy, and folklore communities need to discover this. Four incredible things stood out to me through this film: - an authentic trauma/catharsis narrative - a playful and terrifying faerie story - sound design to make audiophiles obsessed - cinematography and locations that immersed me I loved it. If you've read Patrick Rothfuss, or watched Critical Role or Dimension 20, you'll understand everything you need to in order to get what's going on here.

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Synopsis

Darcy (Dev Patel) and Daphne (Rosy McEwen) Davenport are freshly decamped from London and taking up residence in an isolated cottage deep in the Welsh countryside in search of creative renewal and acoustic inspiration. When the couple set about exploring their new environs, recording instruments in tow, Darcy stumbles upon a "faerie circle" that emits a strange, unidentifiable frequency; this odd discovery is followed closely by the appearance of an otherworldly child (Jade Croot) who claims to live nearby and is eager to befriend the Davenports. Soon the child becomes a fixture in their household, alternately ingratiating himself and raising suspicions, and exposing unacknowledged rifts and unexamined secrets that threaten to wreak psychological and spiritual havoc in the lives of his makeshift adoptive parents.

Director: Bryn Chainey
Producer: Lawrence Inglee, Daniel Noah, Elijah Wood, Elisa Lleras, Alex Ashworth, Sean Marley, Adrian Politowski, Martin Metz
Screenwriter: Bryn Chainey
Distributor: Magnet Releasing
Production Co: Wiser Films (I), Align, SpectreVision, Mad As Birds, Bankside Films, Carte Blanche
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 12, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 30, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA): $31.9K
Runtime: 1h 28m

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