NIGHT OF THE LEPUS

The Burgomaster · October 05, 2005, 08:16:18 AM

I received my copy of this DVD in the mail yesterday. I watched the first 30 minutes (then I switched over to baseball). I intend to finish watching it tonight. A few preliminary observations:

1. The movie has a great, 1970s "drive-in" look to it;
2. Janet Leigh's career had really gone downhill by 1972;
3. Rabbits are not scary, even if you show extreme close-ups of them with blood on their mouths;
4. This is another example of how "PG" rated movies were much bloodier in the 70s than they are today;
5. Rabbits are not scary, even if you show extreme close-ups of them with blood on their mouths;
6. Let's not forget about Stuart Whitman when we talk about B-movie heroes;
7. Deforest Kelly was never able to break his Dr. McCoy typecasting;
8. Rabbits are not scary, even if you show extreme close-ups of them with blood on their mouths;
9. Deforest Kelly looks silly with a mustache;
10. Rabbits are not scary, even if you show extreme close-ups of them with blood on their mouths;
11. Rabbits are not scary, even if you show extreme close-ups of them with blood on their mouths.

I can't wait to watch the final hour!

Post Edited (10-05-05 08:17)

odinn7 · October 05, 2005, 09:02:44 AM

One question here Burgo...do you think it would be possible to make a rabbit scary? I mean say that you were to show an extreme close-up of a rabbit with blood on its mouth?

trekgeezer · October 05, 2005, 09:24:06 AM

Did anyone notice there is practically no way to make a rabbit look scary? Even with closeups with blood on their mouths.

I always wondered if the giant rabbits would have tasted good after getting roasted on the railroad tracks.

raj · October 05, 2005, 12:51:18 PM

I think the rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail was kind of scary. But there, IIRC, there were some closeups with blood on its mouth.

Mr. Lobo · October 05, 2005, 04:05:38 PM

This is sounding like one of my threads!

AndyC · October 05, 2005, 05:46:09 PM

trek_geezer wrote:
> I always wondered if the giant rabbits would have tasted good
> after getting roasted on the railroad tracks.

They'd probably taste like chicken. No, seriously.

By the way, I agree with Lobo. There might be grounds for a lawsuit here, Burgo.

Shadowphile · October 05, 2005, 09:27:33 PM

Did anyone notice there is practically no way to make DeForest Kelley scary? Even with closeups with blood on his mouth.

Wait until you see Doctor McCoy in a western. It's just wrong. He did quite a few before he played Bones....

AndyC · October 05, 2005, 09:30:07 PM

Shadowphile wrote:
> Did anyone notice there is practically no way to make DeForest
> Kelley scary?

Maybe if he was naked.

Dr. Whom · October 06, 2005, 03:05:53 AM

At one point, the good guys are holed up in a cellar and they shoot some rabbits through the floor. These animals give very convincing yelps, and AFAIK, there wasn't any 'no animals were harmed' disclaimer. I've always wondered about this.

Mr. Hockstatter · October 06, 2005, 08:32:18 AM

But how about extreme close-ups of them with blood on their mouths, with weird bubbling sounds in the background?

BoyScoutKevin · October 07, 2005, 02:17:31 PM

I vote for the rabbit in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," too. Darn! That was one scary bunny rabbit.

And they do taste like chicken. I was in Ireland, on a college field trip, chowing down something in a Dublin hotel, thinking I was eating chicken, because it tasted like chicken, and only after I had finished eating, did I find out, I was eating rabbit.

Shadowphile · October 09, 2005, 11:58:05 AM

Or extreme close-ups of them with blood on their mouths, with Deforrest Kelley naked in the background?

Flangepart · October 09, 2005, 02:26:26 PM

Or the rabbits with mustaches, and blood on the mouth of Janet Leigh.

Shadowphile · October 09, 2005, 09:35:35 PM

That just makes it look like Janet Leigh has turned carnivore.

daveblackeye15 · October 10, 2005, 12:06:24 AM

< Rabbits are not scary, even if you show extreme close-ups of them with blood on their mouths.>

Actually I disagree. When I saw a bit of Night of the Lepus on t.v. they showed a guy near , I believe it was a large truck, and we saw a close up a rabbit's mouth growling. I believe the man knew something was up but too late, the rabbit got him.

I was seven or eight at the time and I was quite scared.

I like the idea, I havn't seen the movie but most people seem to mock it. I'll have to see the movie for myself but it sounds like a good idea but poor execution.

I know it's rabbits but I do like the idea.

And I like the poster, the one with a bunch of eyes looming out of the dark., it's quite creepy.