Movie · 2025 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery, Fantasy · 1h 28m · English
Curator score: 2.1/10 (12.7K ratings)
Let them in.
Overview
When a musician and her husband move to a remote house in Wales, the music they make disturbs local ancient folk magic, bringing a nameless child to their door who is intent on infiltrating their lives.
Ratings
Curator score: 2.1/10
IMDb: 4.8/10
Letterboxd: 3.09/5
Metacritic: 57
TMDB: 5.8/10
Director
Bryn Chainey
Production
SpectreVision, Mad as Birds, Align, Bankside Films, Wiser Films, Carte Blanche
Cast
Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen, Jade Croot, Nicholas Sampson
Where to watch
Amazon Prime Video, Philo, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Curator Review
Verdict
An atmospheric folk-horror mystery with strong sound design, eerie imagery, and a memorable sense of place, but it seems to lean heavily on ambiguity and mood over clarity or momentum. If you like slow-burn supernatural films that reward immersion more than explanation, it’s worth a look; if you want a tighter, more decisive narrative, it may frustrate you.
Best for
folk-horror fans
viewers who love immersive sound design
slow-burn mystery audiences
art-house horror seekers
people who enjoy ambiguous supernatural lore
Skip if
you need clear rules and answers
you dislike vague or elliptical storytelling
you prefer fast pacing and constant plot movement
you want conventional scares over atmosphere
you are impatient with open-ended symbolism
Overview
Rabbit Trap is built around texture: wind, field recordings, distant voices, and the uneasy friction between music and older, stranger forces. The Welsh setting feels less like a backdrop than an active presence, and the film’s strongest asset appears to be its ability to make sound itself feel haunted. That gives it a distinctive identity within recent folk-horror, especially for viewers who respond to cinema as an immersive sensory experience.
Worth noting
The tradeoff is that the film’s mystery can feel intentionally withholding. Its lore seems more felt than explained, which will be a plus for some and a source of drift for others. When the movie is working, it’s unsettling and beautiful; when it isn’t, the vagueness can make the emotional and narrative contours hard to grasp.
Bottom line
For the right audience, though, that opacity is part of the appeal. This looks like a film that wants to seep under your skin rather than deliver clean shocks, and it benefits from a theater or a very good sound system. It’s not a broad crowd-pleaser, but it should land with viewers who appreciate atmospheric horror with a strong formal identity.
Top Letterboxd reviews
Joosh (3★) · 970 likes
never trust an mf that looks like barry keoghan
olivialaskowski (4★) · 836 likes
a beautiful and immersive movie about how traumatizing and painful it is to love someone who is trying to produce electronic music
creed ford (2.5★) · 591 likes
gay little boy torments straight couple
Xander Grzywinski (3.5★) · 383 likes
Could feel the A24 buyer vibrating in their seat.
allain♡ · 308 likes
they knew what they were doing showing dev patel’s nipples in that angle…