In a rare surfacing in the contemporary world, JF and Phil discuss a film that has just been released. Bryn Chainey’s Rabbit Trap is psychological horror in the tradition of Repulsion, Jacob’s Ladder, and Angel Heart. But it is more: a metaphysical film exploring the mystery of sound and the Otherworld of Faerie—an excursion into that weird country, so deftly explored by Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood, where wonder and terror perform their eldritch duets.

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REFERENCES

Bryn Chainey, Rabbit Trap

Weird Studies, Episode 190 on “The Willows”

Alan Crosland (dir.), The Jazz Singer

Weird Studies, Episode 150 on “A Fragment of Life”

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