RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams

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.

Slant Magazine by William Repass

It’s when the film plays in the gaps between sound and image that it’s most disturbing.

The Film Stage by Jourdain Searles

Though a bit shaky and mysterious at times, this story lands beautifully.

The Playlist by Gregory Ellwood

An incredibly ambitious film that, at times, astounds and then somehow can’t completely stick the landing.

Screen Daily by Amber Wilkinson

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.

Paste Magazine by Jim Vorel

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.

Slashfilm by Bill Bria

The film is a haunting curiosity, a movie that exists on the cusp of both folk horror and cosmic horror without resolving that tension.

IndieWire by David Ehrlich

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.

Collider by Ross Bonaime

It is an ambitious flurry of ideas, and while it doesn’t entirely work, there’s an extremely promising filmmaker within Chainey.

The Daily Beast by Nick Schager

Nothing—including a game performance by Dev Patel—can prevent it from tumbling down a bottomless hole from which it can’t escape.