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 - night of the lepusnight of the lepus is as good asi remembered as a child. i like the old scary movies because it is not all blood and guts. the rabbits are big and realestic. im really glad they put it on a dvd Rating: - For Ravenous Killers They're Adorable!Imagine a pet bunny. Now think of him the size of a bus. Then imagine that he is carnivorous with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Add on serveral dozen of his friends. That is Night of the Lepus. You will not have any sleepless nights after watching this film. It is very cheesy by today's standards. The special effects mostly involve using mirrors to make it seem that there are more bunnies than there actually are. For ravanous killers, they sure are adorable, though. This is one movie that will make you cheer for the bad guy. How the bunnies run and grunt is so cute!!!!! Buy this one and enjoy. I can honestly say that there is not and never will be another movie like it. Rating: - Killer Bunnies!Everything in this movie that some would complain about actually makes it so much fun. Giant killer bunnies, Janet Leigh trying to pose as a young wife and mother...all of the absurdities join together for one fun film. What makes it even more fun is the idea that the film makers set out to tell a serious story. While it is not gory or graphic in the sense that modern films are, use discretion when watching with kids. Since I was told that it was "not scary" at all, I let the kids watch it with me after we received it. My daughter cried and my son curled up in a ball and I finally had to shut it off. My kids may be oversensitive - but just know that it's no Disney movie and younger, sensitive kids may very well be scared by it. Even my eleven year old was a little spooked by it. Rating: - Leapin' Lepus! They're Bloodthirsty Bunnies!Captain Kirk: "Captain's Log, Star Date 1972. Dr. Leonard McCoy has gone back to a time when the Earth was overrun by gigantic, killer rabbits. Without violating the prime directive, he's attempting to exterminate them before the human race is wiped out. Kirk out." Dr. McCoy, talking into his communicator: "Jim, with this cheesy mustache, people keep mistaking me for some singer named Robert Goulet. At any rate, I've discovered their headquarters. These mutant creatures are called Playboy bunnies, and they live in a mansion. Apparently, they live with a human called Huge Heffer, who seems to have some control over them. I'm going there to personally check out these bunnies." Captain Kirk: "Be careful, Bones. You know how bunnies breed." Dr. McCoy: "Dammit, Jim. I'm a doctor! I know they breed with their lungs. If I can just get them to stop multiplying so fast." Captain Kirk: "If anyone can stop Playboy bunnies from reproducing, I'm sure you can!" Rating: - It Could Happen, AlmostThis is actually one of my all time favorite movies for no other reason than that is is just fun, plain old fun. It is well acted, though a bit dated by the clothes, vehicles, and hair. The stock footage at the beginning of the rabbit plagues in Australia is real, though the voice over was scripted for the movie. Destruction of habitat, introduction of non-native species, and reckless killing of natural predators and prey do disrupt normal ecological cycles and create real life horrors, so that part is true to life. Scientists have indeed experimented on using natural hormones, including growth hormones from the pituitary gland to control breeding in wild animal populations. Such therapies do often create unexpected side effects like abnormal growth, visible tumors, and behavioral changes. You have this type of research to thank for most modern day roach and rat poisons. I would like to think that lab accidents never happened and no research subject ever escaped, especially one from the active group rather than the control group, but wherever humans are, human error is a possibility. So there is nothing at all impossible about the premise. With one or two exceptions, (men in bunny suits and bunny's running down a herd of stampeding horses), the special effects are realistic in a way CGI never will be. They used real rabbits in a fairly decent mockup of the city. The sound effect when the rabbit are present is supposed to inspire nervousness, but I find it oddly soothing. Having grown up with a large hutch of bunnies, I spend a lot of time cleaning the hutch or just inside it playing with them and the rustling, chewing, snuffling sounds are pleasant, then add to that what appears to be a recording of a slowed down heartbeat and it tends to calm me right down. The plot itself is plausible, up until the rabbits get camper trailer sized at which point gravity would cause them to collapse because their skeletal system would be inadequate to support them. In addition, one must ignore the fact that rabbits are not carnivorous, and even at that size would not be able to get enough nutrients from meat travelling through their herbivorous digestive track to keep from starving to death.... unless of course they drank the blood. (Hmm, vampiric giant killer bunny rabbits..... Nah, don't give them ideas) The movie is good clean fun, not scary, not gorey, not funny, just familiar and comfortable and .... well.... cute. Enjoy it with an open mind. It's honestly harder to believe that ranchers, scientists, and police would work together in a crisis in this day and age than to believe that extra large rabbits went on a rampage in the midwest.
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