In folklore, entering a faerie circle could lead to being trapped or worse. Something Dev Patel’s character discovers in our exclusive clip from Rabbit Trap. Magnet Home Entertainment has released Rabbit Trap on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand today, December 9. Dev Patel (Monkey Man, The Green Knight), Rosy McEwen (Apartment 7A), and Jade Croot (“The Witcher”) star. In the film, […]
Writer-director Bryn Chainey makes his feature debut with the film, which premiered in the Midnight section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. SpectreVision (Mandy, Color Out of Space) produces.
It’s a film that favors stunning cinematography and immersive sound design, but this faerie tale favors atmospherics over storytelling. I wrote in my review out of Sundance, “There’s no question that Chainey is a talented filmmaker, but Rabbit Trap gets so caught up in the stunning, poetic details that the larger picture becomes inscrutable and ineffective.”
Check out the new clip below, which highlights the film’s haunting design and instills dread as the central characters come upon something otherworldly in the primordial woods.
