‘Rabbit Trap’ Director on His Folk Horror Sundance Film and Casting a ‘Ripped’ Post-‘Monkey Man’ Dev Patel

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Alex Ritman Among another impressive stack of new horror titles looking to spook audiences at this year’s Sundance, “Rabbit Trap” joins a growing library of psychological folk horrors that have recently offered more (deeply) unsettling creeps than out-and-out scares.

Bowing in the Midnight slot in Park City on Friday and the feature debut of Brit director Bryn Chainey, the film doesn’t just boast an Oscar nominee in Dev Patel among its somewhat limited cast (there are only three characters in the entire feature), but comes with the backing of Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision (“Mandy,” “Color Out of Space”).

Set in 1976 in rural Wales, “Rabbit Trap” centers on Daphne Davenport (“Blue Jean” breakout Rosy McEwen), an experimental electronic musician who, alongside her troubled husband and collaborator Darcy (Patel), has moved to a remote abandoned farmhouse in the countryside.

It’s here where, equipped with a wild laboratory of analogue synthesizers, tape decks, theremins and very little else, they hope to finish Daphne’s new album while also finding space to heal after several failed attempts to have a baby.