Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

Now that the summer blockbuster season is coming to an end, the fall season means the awards contenders, but it also means that films that premiered at festivals are going to start making their way ...

Rabbit Trap (2025) is writer and director Bryn Chainey‘s debut film. With only a cast of three, Dev Patel (Monkey Man), Rosy ...

If you were to watch the first 10 to 15 minutes of “Rabbit Trap,” the fundamentally flawed feature debut of writer/director Bryn Chainey, and stop there, you might think you were witnessing the start ...

Daphne (Rosy McEwen) and Darcy (Dev Patel) are typical horror protagonists. They live alone in the middle of the woods, create niche music together, and are willing to do just about anything for their ...

There is a particular branch of British horror that has its roots deep in folk tradition and the clash between outsiders and locals, with a vein of the supernatural running beneath it all. The likes ...

In British writer-director Bryn Chaney’s feature debut, he uses Celtic folklore and the intimacy of sound to unpack a darkness that some might struggle to put in words. Set in 1973, Rabbit Trap stars ...

The last decade of film has seen a variety of weird combos: Horror-Westerns; noir-comedy; horror-comedy; period-horror-comedy-action. You get the point. At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, director ...

A tradition stretching back to genre pioneers like 1973’s pagan freakout The Wicker Man, British folk horror can be bonkers (Alex Garland’s Men), hypnotically abstract (Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men) or ...

Bryn Chainey’s “Rabbit Trap,” starring Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen, and Jade Croot, is a three-hander folk horror deeply rooted in Welsh lore and the precarious balance between humans and the natural world ...

Deep into Rabbit Trap, the directorial debut of Bryn Chainey, a character mentions that “with your eyes you enter the world.