‘Rabbit Trap’ Writer-Director Bryn Chainey Unpacks “Healing Journey” Of His Fairytale Horror About A “Needy” Inner Child

RABBIT TRAP

Section: Midnight
Screenwriter-Director: Bryn Chainey

Logline: Set in 1973, the film charts the story of married musicians Daphne (Rosy McEwen) and Darcy Davenport (Dev Patel), who have relocated from London to an isolated cabin in Wales in order to complete their new record. When they accidentally make a field recording of a mystical sound never before heard by human ears, a strange child (Jade Croot) enters their lives who gradually untethers them from reality, and the couple soon find themselves caught between the ancient spirits of the natural world and the lives they once knew.

Panelists: McEwen, Croot and Chainey
Sales Agent: CAA, Bankside Films
Premiered: Jan. 24, Eccles Theatre
Key Quote: “I grew up reading books about fairies, and goblins, and pixies, and when I dug into the stories about these creatures who lived in the woods out in Wales, there was such inconsistency in how they behaved, and I found that really fascinating that these goblins were sometimes helpful, and sometimes malevolent, and sometimes they were really needy and they wanted to move in the house, and sometimes they wanted to be left alone in the land of fairy. And as I read about this, I thought this is just like a needy child, that’s interesting … what if I did a film that was about that needy child inside all of us, but also inside the earth, like a forgotten landscape. It needs to be remembered, and seen, and loved,” Chainey told us.