Dev Patel Unleashes The Wrath Of Faeries In New RABBIT TRAP Trailer

Dev Patel (The Green Knight, Monkey Man) and Rosy McEwen (Apartment 7A, Harvest) are in hot water with faeries in the new trailer for Rabbit Trap, the upcoming folk-horror-thriller from filmmaker Bryn Chainey (Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness), set to hit theaters on September 12 via Magnet Releasing.

Produced by SpectreVision (Mandy, Color Out Of Space) and Bankside Films, Rabbit Trap had its premiere in Sundance's Midnights section earlier this year. The pic follows a musician and her husband who move to a remote house in Wales, where the music they make disturbs local ancient folk magic:

Darcy (Patel) and Daphne (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.

In an (incredibly eloquent) director's statement, Chainey had the following to say about Rabbit Trap, his feature directorial debut: 

The lingering effects of trauma are often elusive and ineffable. They can creep and spread and infect. They can play tricks on us. Something doesn’t feel right, but we can’t put our finger on it. Something is WRONG, but we don’t know why. We are ill at ease. A reluctance, a fear, a pervasive feeling of dread — they can overwhelm us without warning. In short: we are alone. When trauma remains unhealed, it can spread its burdens like a fungus from individual to individual. And the same can be said for a society. But the effects are often so PRIVATE, we don't know how to heal them.

Where the processing of trauma is beyond words, where its elements and cures are more like music, where sensation serves as a substitute for language, THIS is where Rabbit Trap takes place. It is a mechanism—like poetry—for accessing and expressing feelings connected to trauma that might otherwise remain inaccessible. It is the hope of making this offering that has motivated myself and our team to commit our time and effort into making . It is an attempt to reach out to those who may be plagued by trauma and its effects, or those who seek to understand it, and to say to them, with a cinematic experience that is often wordless: You are not alone.