Rabbit Trap

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Rabbit Trap

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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Linda Marric

HeyUGuys

Jan 30, 2026

4/5

As debuts go, it’s a confident and distinctive one, marking Bryn Chainey as a filmmaker with a strong feel for atmosphere and an ear for the unsettling sounds hidden in everyday life.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

Jan 29, 2026

3/5

Technically, Rabbit Trap is assured, particularly in its use of analogue equipment and dense sound design. Emotionally, though, it remains curiously hollow.

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Jonathan Romney

Financial Times

Jan 29, 2026

4/5

The script occasionally lapses into awkward passages of mystico-poetic rhetoric; otherwise, Rabbit Trap creates an insidious imagistic poetry of its own.

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Nadine Whitney

The Curb

Apr 24, 2026

3/5

Rabbit Trap does seem a case of style over substance. However, that style is abundantly mesmerising at its best and charged with the mystery of dark and deep places.

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Rose Ho

The Asian Cut

Mar 7, 2026

6/10

Rabbit Trap doesn’t exactly snap to break bones, but it does its best to make a long-lasting impression.

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David Parkinson

Radio Times

Feb 23, 2026

3/5

Yet, for all Croot's creepiness and some perturbing excursions into the woods, Chainey puts more effort into the atmospherics than the structure of a story that never quite gets its hooks in.

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Norm V

Sep 17, 2025

Very dry horror that is hard to understand.

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Will

Sep 17, 2025

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

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christine i

Sep 12, 2025

Very strange story. But the acting was great.

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Stephanie L

@triippp Oct 26, 2026

This movie is seriously underrated. I’ll admit, I didn’t fully understand it at first and had to dig a little deeper into its meaning, but that only made me appreciate it more. The film itself is brilliant, and I absolutely love the unsettling atmosphere, the complexity, and the overall dynamic of the story. Dev Patel is an incredibly talented actor, and first watching him in Skins and to many other movies after. This is one of those films that stays with you and makes you think long after it’s over. Definitely deserves a lot more recognition.

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Kyle M

@RT77296778 Oct 18, 2026

It’ll make you feel like you’ve missed the point, but you won’t because there’s conceptual confusion in the so-called horrific storytelling attempting to trek folk horror towards nature spirituality framed as unnoticed arthouse within an incoherent vase, between both the plot and the resonating performances as the stars are too trying to grasp what they signed for then mentally survive towards a paycheck. (C-)

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Steven Michael H

@RT67528345 Sep 25, 2026

It’s okay movie, it not that creepy of movie it’s about entity indulging it self in side lives of a couple pretending to be something it’s not. I had to read up on the movie and what it was about couple of times along with asking questions about different events just so I could figure out what my own interpretation of movie was it seems that no one can come to a consensus on an interpretation. My own take is the entity was taking advantage of the couple forcing them to confront there own I’m ability to have a child or possible loose of child maybe miscarriage or health issue due to fact that couple talked about almost having a child but then did not. So entire I think feed living off of there trauma and pushed it to surface to cause issues at end the couple just accepted there issues problems they had and then it seems the entity disappears from there world and turns into a a dead rabbit that they burry. Its not great story but acting good by actors was good.

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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
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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