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Rabbit Trap: Supernatural Folk Horror Captivates Sundance
2 Oct
Summary
- Rabbit Trap, a folk horror film, premiered at Sundance earlier this year
- The film blends 1970s electronic music and Celtic folklore
- SpectreVision producers were drawn to the film's "full spectrum of weird"
In 2025, the supernatural folk horror film Rabbit Trap, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, has continued to captivate audiences with its unique blend of 1970s electronic music and Celtic folklore. The producers at SpectreVision, Elijah Wood, Lawrence Inglee, and Daniel Noah, were immediately drawn to the project after receiving a lookbook from fellow producer Elisa Lleras.
The film, set in the Welsh countryside in the 1970s, follows a musical couple, Daphne and Darcy Davenport, who move to the countryside to finish their new record. While recording in the ancient woodlands, Darcy captures a forbidden sound that brings a strange boy to their doorstep, drawing them into an enigmatic realm where the line between reality and myth begins to blur.
According to the producers, Rabbit Trap spoke to their "individual niche interests" and combined elements that felt "unlike anything we'd seen." The film's commitment to ambiguity and its exploration of unspoken traumas through sound and magic particularly resonated with the team, who were eager to work with the film's articulate director, Bryn Chainey.
