2025 Sundance: “Rabbit Trap” is interesting, mysterious natural horror
Alex Bilington
January 26, 2025
A completely new British folk horror work was unveiled at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. “Rabbit TRAP” is a feature film debut of Bulin Cheney, a up -and -coming British Australian film director, who served as a script and director in this work. This is also a very personal project based on his own worst fear and experience, just as many filmmakers are trying to overcome them by making films about them. Rabbit TRAP was set in 1976 and pursued a young couple living in a small hut in the wilderness in the countryside. If you live alone, make unique music, or record natural sounds, they will encounter strange supernatural power. As a result, they try to understand what is going on. And when a mysterious child appears randomly and enters their lives, it becomes particularly strange. There are several interesting ideas for this work, but it’s not a big deal, and the finale lacks a considerable vividness. But anyway, I’m mostly fascinated by it and I can’t write the whole movie.
Two protagonists appear in Rabbit Trap, directed by Brin Chainy. One is Daphne, a avant -garde musician played by Rosie Makuen, who has extraordinary talents, and she is “struggling to use open reel tape machines and oscillators in the hut.” We are collecting collections. Field recording outside. Dev Patel is co -starring in the role of Darcy, so to speak, starring, but when the situation begins to go crazy, it has been drifting between Darcy and Dahne all the time. One day, after walking through the magnificent forest of Wales, a nearby forest, Darcy found a strange circle on the ground with mushrooms. What is it? When you step inside, everything starts to change. The next day, a child with curiosity, a curiosity, appears near the house. Although Jade Cruet plays this young child, they refuse to reveal their names, but as soon as he/she/she arrives, it is clear that it is not exactly human. However, he persuades them that they are mere neighbors who are familiar with the forest and are good at rabbits, and have them accept them slowly. As this happens, Darcy nightmares begin to worsen, and their outside nature becomes more and more strange.
To be honest, I link the first half of “Rabbit Trap”, that is, the magic, mystery and conspiracy of supernatural things found on the earth and the ground, and this couple records natural sounds and creates an album. You have to admit that you loved the part. There is also a gorgeous rural cottage where they live, and contains wonderful photos of the surrounding nature. Photography director Andreas Johanessen prepared a job for him. Just pointing the camera around the scenery around this place makes everything like magic. This magical and natural atmosphere is the best part of this movie, but unfortunately the story does not match the appearance and atmosphere. The second half of the movie is a big “eh?” The film is trying to make it a mysterious and anxiety as a horror movie, but it doesn’t make a big deal and ends with a rather confused ending. You can guess what will happen. As the story goes on and the mystery is trying to deepen the mystery, there are some moments that seem to be going to something bigger and horrible, but they disappear quickly and the story just progresses. I kept waiting for it to be more thrilling, but I couldn’t get there … I wanted to support it, but at the end there aren’t many support.
“Rabbit Trap” is half of the attractive folk horror, and some excellent ideas have been hindered by frustrated storytelling. I can’t say I didn’t like this movie, I like it, but I like it a little. I praise a lot of the earth, what the earth is trying to do, and praise the mystery of the earth, but I don’t like where it reaches, and it looks like I’m missing the climax. Recently, there were too many movies with this kind of movie, I had a good idea, but I started well, but I didn’t go anywhere and did not execute anything. Chainy seems to have been inspired by Ben Weekly’s Nature Horror movie A Field in English and recently in the Earth. This comparison is accurate, even if he doesn’t get directly inspired by them. Like “IN THE EARTH”, the latter half of this work is also expected, and interesting characters are taken to an exciting and uninteresting place. The finale is wonderful, and there is one part that makes you feel uneasy, but the development is too fast. Nature, especially the magic of the forest, is scary, but it is quite difficult to properly capture this feeling in a horror movie and turn it into an attractive story.
Alex’s Sundance 2025 Evaluation: 6.5 out of 10 points
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