# Rabbit Trap & Starve Acre - Halloween Double Bill

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Podcast: [FolknHell](https://stenobird.com/podcast/folknhell-7405500)
Published: 2025-10-30T07:06:00+00:00
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In the Welsh Valleys and Yorkshire fields, something stirs. Two couples, two hauntings; one whispered through fairy rings, the other screamed through roots and ritual. Rabbit Trap offers tenderness in the face of loss; Starve Acre finds horror in what the land remembers. Our Halloween special, a double helping of ritual, grief, and mycelial menace, pairs Bryn Chainey’s dreamlike Rabbit Trap with Daniel Kokotajlo’s devastating Starve Acre . Different tones, same soil. One heals, the other devours. 🐇 Rabbit Trap – The Poetic Ritual A sound engineer (Dev Patel) and his composer wife (Rose McEwen) retreat to the Welsh Valleys to rediscover inspiration. Instead, they find a mysterious child in the woods, and the faint pull of the fairy realm. Blurring the line between healing and haunting, Rabbit Trap weaves changeling myth, fairy-ring folklore, and electronic soundscapes into a story of grief transfigured. Its intimacy is hypnotic: a film where sound carries half the story, and the unseen hums just beneath the soil. “It’s not a film about fear. It’s about finally meaning it.” — Andy Davidson Score: 28/30 Verdict: A beautiful, immersive folk horror, poetic, unsettling, and quietly redemptive. 🌾 Starve Acre – The Brutal Rite Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark play a grieving couple drawn into an ancient ritual tied to the land beneath their Yorkshire home. Here, loss becomes obsession and the soil answers back with cruelty. Starve Acre takes the folklore of sacrifice and drags it into raw, contemporary grief — a story of necromancy, love, and the terrible cost of devotion. Where Rabbit Trap whispers, this one roars. Wide landscapes, heavy silences, and the suffocating inevitability of myth. “Where Rabbit Trap gives your life back, Starve Acre asks what you’ll give up to get it.” —…

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