Warners has announced that Night of the Lepus will be released in its original aspect ratio on 10/4.
What are they thinking? This could traumatize poor unsuspecting Easter bunny believers.
trek_geezer wrote:
> What are they thinking? This could traumatize poor unsuspecting
> Easter bunny believers.
This could truly have them 'hopping' mad. (:
I've always wanted to see this movie. It looks like now I'll have the chance.
William Shatner's best work?
What say you, trekgeezer?
I especially love the poor bunny who treads on his own floppy ears and trips and falls over during the tunnel sequence.
Nice tagline Menard!!
peter johnson/denny crane
Excelent news! I think...
I'm pretty sure Shatner's not in this, but DeForest Kelley is.
Indeed we get to see DeForest Kelly battling it out with bunnies! Watch out for the great finale, Watch for the guy in the bunny suit among the horses
And my favourite scene, when the deputy sherrif steps out in front of the audience of a drive in theatre, picks up the megaphone and says something like
Attention! There's a herd of killer rabbits coming this way, and we need your assistance
And they follow him to a man!!!!!!
Stuart Whitman must be so proud to have this on his resume.
Man, the killer rabbit in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is scary than anything in this flick. The fact that TNT used to show it so damn much is scarier than anything in the flick. But I'm glad it's getting relased on DVD to entertain new generations of people who wonder "What's the worst idea for a "giant monsters run wild" film?"
This makes me immensely happy. Lepus was one of the first b-movies I really laughed at, seeing it on TNT when I was 11. Now I can finally retire that crappy VHS dub!
Cullen wrote:
> Excelent news! I think...
No, this is, indeed excellent news, Cullen. Heck, I'm so excited about it, I almost mispessled "excellent" like you did!
(Please ignore this jab at Cullen's spelling, everyone. He's my older brother, and if I didn't give him crap, he'd wonder what he'd done to p**s me off.)
Oh, crap, I effed up again --
I think I first saw this as a double-feature with that spider movie that Shatner was in, and my mind must've inserted him in both films, on the theory that any movie can only be improved by the addition of more Shatner.
Bad mind!! Bad mind!! No sushi for you!!!
peter johnson/denny crane
Hey Peter, I didn't catch this until you discovered your mistake. But yes,Shatner is good as the sexist veternarian in Kingdom of the Spiders. In fact when making his moves on the female entomoligist he comes across as down right sleazy, especially since the widowed sister-in-law that has the hots for him was actually his real life wife at the time.
I did a little mini review of the Kingdom a couple of months ago.
I eagerly await the return of Denny Crane. (I think they are moving it to a different day next season, but not sure which.)
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Hey, eye spel gud! U meen two mee four know gud rezon. Notty boi!
I didn't know you liked "Night of the Lepus." You have better taste than I thought....
Cullen wrote:
> Hey, eye spel gud! U meen two mee four know gud rezon. Notty
> boi!
>
> I didn't know you liked "Night of the Lepus." You have better
> taste than I thought....
>
Okay, never do that again. I was just messing with you, and you get all vindictive... "eye spel gud" indeed. ;-)
Yeah, Night of the Lepus is just plain good bad movie fun. I mean, c'mon, man, how can you resist giant killer bunnies? It's like a small army of BunBuns on steroids.
When that movie first came out, my sister was at a wedding shower. Someone mentioned they had seen the movie at the drive-in. This young woman who was newly married and kind of hicky said "Bet them big rabbits would be good eatin."
Oh, boy! I've been waiting a long time for this!
Yea, I've been wanting to see this one for a long while now. The only part I remember as a kid in the 70's was the part where the projected rabbits come over the fence. Seems they made a lot of strange films of a similiar kind during this period.
FOOD OF THE GODS
KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS
GARGOYLES
INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS
EMPIRE OF THE ANTS
SQUIRM
I'm sure there are many more. Those ones come to mind.
I remember seeing this for the first time years ago. I was left speachless. Honestly was this movie ment to be serious? Food Of The Gods, theres a classic I haven't seen in years.
Scott wrote:
> Yea, I've been wanting to see this one for a long while now.
> The only part I remember as a kid in the 70's was the part
> where the projected rabbits come over the fence. Seems they
> made a lot of strange films of a similiar kind during this
> period.
>
> FOOD OF THE GODS
> KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS
> GARGOYLES
> INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS
> EMPIRE OF THE ANTS
> SQUIRM
>
> I'm sure there are many more. Those ones come to mind.
>
Oh, yeah. SQUIRM was on MST3K, but the others go on the "Movies i wanted Joel/Mike and the Bots to get to" list.