Rabbit Trap
Magnet Releasing | Release Date: September 12, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
11
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsSep 12, 2025
Rabbit Trap, a supernatural drama about a young couple haunted by a creepy child, revels in the tropes and tics of a few decades’ worth of British folk horror. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineWilliam RepassSep 9, 2025
It’s when the film plays in the gaps between sound and image that it’s most disturbing. Read full review
75
The Film StageJourdain SearlesFeb 6, 2025
Though a bit shaky and mysterious at times, this story lands beautifully. Read full review
75
The PlaylistGregory EllwoodJan 31, 2025
An incredibly ambitious film that, at times, astounds and then somehow can’t completely stick the landing. Read full review
70
Paste MagazineJim VorelSep 9, 2025
Destined to be divisive, it’s a piece of modestly indulgent arthouse horror that is equal parts bewitching and belabored, but at least it has the good instinct to trim itself to a short runtime that doesn’t allow it to become genuinely grating. Read full review
70
Screen DailyAmber WilkinsonJan 31, 2025
The British director marries Welsh mythology to more modern ideas about processing trauma, using sound to create a strange and unsettling psychological mood piece rather than an out-and-out horror. The result is engagingly enigmatic if slight in terms of plot and light on chills. Read full review
70
SlashfilmBill BriaJan 31, 2025
The film is a haunting curiosity, a movie that exists on the cusp of both folk horror and cosmic horror without resolving that tension. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJan 31, 2025
Frustrating as it can be to watch such an intriguing movie get so high on its own supply . . . Chainey’s aggressive refusal to engage with the specifics of Darcy’s inner “rot” or to unpack Daphne’s artistic insecurities allows this delirious three-hander to remain appealingly immune to the “everything is trauma” approach that has made so much of modern horror feel like a form of collective psychotherapy. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesTara BradyJan 29, 2026
For all its craft and atmosphere, this is folk horror that makes the ears twitch yet rarely raises goosebumps. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawJan 28, 2026
Rabbit Trap loses focus, but not before it has shown us a scary performance from Croot. Read full review
60
ColliderRoss BonaimeFeb 5, 2025
It is an ambitious flurry of ideas, and while it doesn’t entirely work, there’s an extremely promising filmmaker within Chainey. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 17, 2025
The tone and atmosphere are immersive and decidedly analog, and the whole nature of “sound” thing makes an interesting metaphysical text or subtext. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBrandon YuSep 11, 2025
Rabbit Trap, the horror folk tale from Bryn Chainey, is that unfortunate kind of creation: a work that so clearly possesses the tools that might make a good, captivating film, but instead ends up lost in the workshop, too busy admiring its own handiwork. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJan 31, 2025
Director Chaney clearly has a lot of skill and talent. But for all of Rabbit Trap’s technical accomplishments, it’s very hard to be frightened or moved by something that never stops feeling like an exercise in style. Read full review
50
TheWrapChase HutchinsonJan 31, 2025
Rabbit Trap finds some occasionally effective moments of atmospheric dread and sadness, only to leave those moments stranded. Read full review
50
VarietySiddhant AdlakhaJan 31, 2025
The film’s barely-hidden secrets float just beneath the surface of a pool with no ripples — without meaningful texture to complicate or disguise its themes, or turn their unveiling into an emotionally-driven experience. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJan 31, 2025
Bryn Chainey’s Rabbit Trap has a creepy sense of dread, striking images of invasive nature and an intriguing baseline about the otherworldly properties of sound, making it a somewhat promising debut feature. Read full review
50
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJan 25, 2025
Nothing—including a game performance by Dev Patel—can prevent it from tumbling down a bottomless hole from which it can’t escape. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeJan 31, 2025
Chainey is certainly skilled at distracting us, drowning his film in atmosphere and mood to offset the devolving half-baked hokum of his plot. Read full review
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