{"id":67350,"date":"2025-08-14T21:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67350\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T21:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:39:07","slug":"dev-patel-rosy-mcewen-lead-folk-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67350\/","title":{"rendered":"Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen Lead Folk Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"

If last year’s chilling Doctor Who episode ‘73 Yards<\/a>‘ taught us anything, it’s this: don’t mess with fairy circles. It’s a lesson that Daphne (Rosy McEwen) and Darcy (Dev Patel), the married musicians at the centre of first-time feature filmmaker Bryn Chainey’s upcoming folk horror Rabbit Trap, probably wish they’d learnt before heading to rural Wales to work on their latest album. As we soon see in the first trailer for Chainey’s 70s set movie, tylwyth teg \u2014 or fairy folk, to the non-Welsh speaking among us \u2014 don’t take too kindly to having their peace disturbed, and finding the right sound for their avant garde new record is about to become the least of Daphne and Darcy’s worries. Check it out below;<\/p>\n

A little bit Starve Acre<\/a>, a little bit In The Earth<\/a>, and just a smidge Berberian Sound Studio<\/a>, Chainey’s movie looks to be pulling from all the right influences, capitalising on the dramatic Welsh landscape \u2014 and the arrival of an overly interested stranger (Jade Croot) \u2014 to bring something fresh to the genre it’s so evidently a love letter to. And here’s the intriguing synopsis: “Seeking new inspiration and a fresh start, married musicians Daphne (McEwan) and Darcy (Patel) move to the Welsh countryside to finish their new record. While collecting audio samples, Darcy inadvertently creates a field recording of mysterious sound never before heard by human ears. The discovery renews Daphne\u2019s creative energy, but as the echoes of her music bleed into the surrounding landscape, ancient and malevolent woodland forces are disturbed. One day, a stranger arrives on their doorstep. The couple initially embraces the stranger, who helps them navigate and understand their new environment, but Darcy grows suspicious of his obsession. As jealousy and paranoia infect the makeshift family, the line between reality and myth begins to blur.”<\/p>\n

Who is the stranger that’s come into Darcy and Daphne’s lives? What will their tylweth teg based transgressions bring to bear upon them? And, vitally, will the spouses finish recording their album and make it out of Wales alive? American horror lovers will find out when Rabbit Trap hits cinemas stateside on 12 September, while we’ll just have to sit tight \u2014 and give fairy circles a wide berth \u2014 until a UK release date for the movie is secured. In the meantime, we’re going to rewatch that one episode of Bluey with a fairy circle to settle our nerves…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If last year’s chilling Doctor Who episode ‘73 Yards‘ taught us anything, it’s this: don’t mess with fairy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-67350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}