Just in time for Easter, a movie about man (and woman) - eating giant rabbits!
Night of the Lepus Review (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/nightlepus/)
And speaking of giant rabbits:
http://tinyurl.com/hrwjd
I don't know if it's a fake or not, but that's one big bunny.
I laughed that you called the horde leader "Rabbit Rommel"
I bought this DVD several months ago . . . no collection is complete without it!
Only saw parts of this one in the 70's. Those are some frightful images for sure. Will keep a look out for it. NIGHT OF THE LEPUS belongs right next to FOOD OF THE GODS.
Heh, I liked the "Watership Down" reference :)
Did you knoew DeForest Kelley was named as one of the Worst Actors Ever for his perfomance in "Night of the Lepus"?
I think I raised the point before. At one time, some rabbits are shot through the floor by people hiding in the cellar. I always thought they gave very convincing yelps and I didn't think I saw a notice with 'no rabbits were hurt in the making of the movie'. Did someone really shoot at them?
Rabbits are edible.
And guess what? When you eat rabbit stew, the rabbit didn't die of natural causes.
Here's a plan for the sequel. After the rabbits are roasted and destroyed someone comes up with a plan to feed all that rabbit meat to the homeless and with what is bound to happen in a B horror film the homeless that eat the meat are gradually transformed into a mob of cannabalistic human/rabbit hybrid zombies.
Only what would the title be?
Night of the Hopping Horror!!!
...and then Nick Park and Steve Box would sue your ass for plagiarizing their movie.
The Burgomaster Wrote:
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> I bought this DVD several months ago . . . no
> collection is complete without it!
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> I've wasted my entire life watching movies . . .
> and most of them were crap!
Oh, Lord...yesss!
The cheese flows like wine in this cracker filled collage of corn!...you can tell i'm writeing this at lunch time, right?
The bunnys...the bunnys!...growling bunnys!
Let the riffing begin!
Lepus is just one of those, how shall I put it... essential B-movies. In my mind, a B movie website cannot truly take itself "seriously" (oxymoron) until it has this film in its ranks. Killer Shrews, one lowbudget Bela Lugosi movie/Tor Johnson movie, one giant bug movie, and Night of the Lepus. Billy Jack films earns you extra points though :)
Also, if there's a sequel to be made, the rabbits ought to go up against something like either the Giant Claw or Python.
"Lepus is just one of those, how shall I put it... essential B-movies."
Very true, I love this movie. Anything with giant animals is OK by me and this is a joy to watch,
-Ed
What a joyful picture -- As I've said before, my favorite part is where the charging giant bunnies step on their own floppy ears whilst charging through the tunnels --
And, yes, raj, that's a real giant bunny -- a Continental Giant, in fact. And that's not even as big as they can REALLY get!
Only deal is, Continental Giants are really quite docile and tame, and not at all good candidates for monster killer horror rabbits --
peter johnson/denny crane
That's because rabbits eat carrots, not people.
Well, you genetically modify the carrots to be disease resistant and bigger, these rabbits eat those carrots, and boom you've got a Scf-Fi movie of the week.
Starring Bruce Boxleitner and Carol Alt. . .with special appearnace by John Rhys-Davies . . .
Does John Rhys-Davies just troll the back lots of the sci-fi channel studios looking for a movie shoot to hop into for a few scenes?
And it tastes like chicken. I kid you not. When I was with a tour group back in the '70's, staying at a hotel in Dublin, Ireland, they served us something that I thought was chicken. I later found out, it was not chicken, but bunny. Hopefully, none of the bunnies who appeared in the film.
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> Hopefully, none of the bunnies who appeared in the film.
What, you want all that meat to go to waste? They must have been about 400 lbs each. I say they land a C-5 there and cart all the carcasses somewhere that people are starving.
Irish Rabbit stew. That just sounds so...right. No, i don't know why...
If giant rabbits stayed vegie eaters, could you train one to wear a saddle?
HI-YO FLOPSIE, A-WAYYYY!
As Roberto Fontanarrosa once said, "You know how big farm animals can get if you don't eat them..."