Dev Patel Digs Up Folk Horror in the Dreamily Unsettling 'Rabbit Trap'
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When it comes to horror movies there might not be any element more important than Sound Design. The long slow creaking of attic doors, the soft fall of surprise footsteps, the shriek of a knife through a shower. People cover their eyes when something’s scaring them but they dumbly leave their ears undefended, letting all of these nightmare whispers in. (Nobody knew this better than David Lynch, whose droning soundscapes became iconic for unsettling us even during the most banal moments.) Sound is so important to horror movies that we’ve had several horror movies explicitly about sound itself— Pontypool , Berberian Sound Studio , and in their own way the Quie