There’s no microphone in the world strong enough to pick up a person’s deepest secrets, and yet every time Darcy (a compellingly anxious Dev Patel) takes his sound equipment for a wander around the primordial Welsh countryside,

"Rabbit Trap," which premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival, explores Welsh mythology so slowly that it fails to terrify.

Dev Patel stars as a curious sound recordist in 'Rabbit Trap,' a surprisingly straightforward Sundance premiere involving experimental music.

Instead, the film starring Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen takes a shockingly steep dive into narrative tedium and ho-hum genre beats. What initially begins as a formally adventurous tale of a husband and wife trying to make sense of a sound they recorded in 1976 deep in the Welsh woods becomes a woefully meandering and mundane horror misfire that wastes its potential.

Bryn Chainey’s first feature centers on an avant-garde musician and her sound recordist husband living in a remote cottage, where a strange local child forms an unhealthy attachment to them.

Rabbit Trap is a folk horror story that deals more with discomfort than with scares. In the film, Daphne (McEwen) and Darcy Davenport (Patel) have left London and moved to a remote cottage in Wales. A musician and her husband,

In writer-director Bryn Chaney's feature debut 'Rabbit Trap', he uses Celtic folklore and the intimacy of sound to unpack an inner darkness.

A brand new British folk horror creation has revealed itself at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Rabbit Trap is the feature directorial debut of up-and-coming British-Australian filmmaker Bryn Chainey,

Debut feature filmmaker Bryn Chainey discusses fairies, goblins and Welsh folklore and casting a 'ripped' post-'Monkey Man' Dev Patel