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Night of the Lepus [DVD]

Stuart Whitman (Actor), Janet Leigh (Actor), William F. Claxton (Director) Rated:

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Genre	Horror
Format	DVD, NTSC, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Subtitled, Color
Contributor	Don Starr, Frank Kennedy, Bob Hardy, Walter Kelley, Russell Morrell, William F. Claxton, Janet Leigh, I. Stanford Jolley, Donna Gelgur, Melanie Fullerton, Steve DeFrance, Henry Wills, Evans Thornton, Paul Fix, Peter O'Crotty, Richard Jacome, Rory Calhoun, Robert Gooden, Phillip Avenetti, Jerry Dunphy, Rick Hummer, Chris Morrell, DeForest Kelley, Francesca Jarvis, Sherry Hummer, Inez Perez, William Elliott (II), Roy Gaintner, Stuart Whitman, Chuck Hayward See more
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 28 minutes

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Okay, movie fans. To all of you who like nothing better than to nuke some corn, dim the lights and settle in with cinematic mutations like gargantuan 'gators, fearsome frogs, awesome ants and monstrous moths, we quote this film: "Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way!" A hormone intended to alter the breeding cycle of rabbits overrunning ranchlands instead turns them into flesh-eating, 150-pound monsters in Night of the Lepus. Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun and DeForest Kelley are among the intrepid humans facing the behemoth bunnies. They use guns, flames and dynamite to subtract them. But the rampaging rabbits know how to multiply. Can anything stop these hare-y scary monsters?

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Whoever persuaded MGM to make a movie about giant, bloodthirsty bunnies must have been some kind of mad genius. Night of the Lepus features Stuart Whitman (star of such classics as Omega Cop and Demonoid, Messenger of Death) and Janet Leigh (whose career had taken a downturn from Psycho) as a pair of scientists who say things like "I wish I knew what the effects of this serum would be--let's hope it works" as they inject test rabbits with hormones that turn them into slavering, carnivorous giant bunnies. That's the plot; the rest of the movie is scenes of giant bunnies attacking horses, giant bunnies jumping through windows to attack people, giant bunnies running in herds down the freeway...lots and lots of giant bunnies, sometimes with blood smeared across their ferocious jaws as they rear up to attack. The special effects are breathtakingly cheap; the bloody corpses are actors with red syrup splashed over them. But what makes Night of the Lepus even more astonishing is that the dvd features dubbing in French, presumably for European viewers bored with their usual diet of Truffaut and Rohmer. In fact, the movie makes more sense in French (assuming you don't actually speak the language); you can pretend it was created by an inspired Surrealist, and that Janet Leigh says things like "My bicycle has wheels of cheese" or "Beauty kisses my savage earlobe," instead of "Rabbits aren't exactly Roy's bag." Also starring Rory Calhoun (Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force) and DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy on the original Star Trek), who wears several colorful turtlenecks. A camp classic. --Bret Fetzer

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.53 inches; 2.88 ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ William F. Claxton
Media Format ‏ : ‎ DVD, NTSC, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Subtitled, Color
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 28 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ October 4, 2005
Actors ‏ : ‎ Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley, Paul Fix
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish, French
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 1.0), French (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Warner Home Video
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000A0GOGE
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Leo Hott

Best Giant Rabbit Movie EVER!!!

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2024

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Is this a bad movie? Absolutely not, consider the cast. Janet Liegh, DeForrest Kelly ("Bones" from Star Trek) and many others you would recognize from the 70's. The 70's produced a plethora of Movies dealing with man's influence on nature creating " Monsters" or monstrous effects on the natural world. As the late 50's & 60's produced " Creature Features" inspired by the atomic bomb & it's nuclear children... The discovery of the hole in the ozone (which has been there for thousands of years, based on trusted historical documents) & effects of chemicals on nature inspired many " Creature Features" in the 70's. As a product this gets an A+ for visual & sound quality. It arrived quickly & well packaged. As far as the " Best giant rabbit movie ever" I would have to see the sequel " Day of the Lepus" again to pass fair judgment. But this is the 1st and only giant rabbit movie I am aware of barring its sequel. I definitely would not call this a bad movie, despite its obviously hilarious villains. The script does a considerably good job justifying giant carnivorous rabbits. This movie gained a " Cult Classic" status for a reason. If you like unique horror or escapist fantasy purchase without reservation. Especially if you have a " Nature gone bad collection" this is a must have for that! If you're looking for an Academy Award winner for best picture of the year this might not be for you. but I have a hunch if you're reading this review, chances are this movie will entertain you & put a smile on your face!

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Great Classic 70s Cult Horror

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2024

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My husband told me about this horrible horror movie his mother took him to see as a child and I never heard of it. I looked at the trailers online and it was hilarious so of course I had to purchase it so we could watch it together and just enjoy this outlandish cult horror film whenever we wanted. It’s important to buy physical media since everything doesn’t stream or if you rent/buy on demand might not be there.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2023

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Night of the Lepus (1972): 8 out of 10: After a sizable amount of research, I can declare that Night of the Lepus is the best giant bunny rabbits terrorize town movies ever made. In addition, my extensive research, including almost six months of fieldwork on IMDb, has led to the conclusion that Night of the Lepus is the only giant bunny rabbits terrorizing a town movie.

Night of the Lepus is based on a comic novel about the cold war that takes place in Australia… Not quite up to say The Swarm standards, but unlike The Smarm, there is absolutely no way one could make a good giant killer rabbit movie. One could make a good killer bee movie.. I mean, no one has come even close, but it is at least theoretically possible.

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Bryan McQuary

It’s definitely a cult classic

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2023

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Imagine Dr McCoy wearing a cowboy hat and using a shotgun while facing off giant rabbits. He’s not getting beamed out of this situation.

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Suzanne M. Snowden

All star cast - it's so bad, it's great!

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2024

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We really enjoyed this movie. Best way to approach it - like you're the robots in MST2000.

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cookieman108

"The bite of the Lepus, that's the Latin word for rabbit, can be dangerous."

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2005

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I saw a peanut stand, heard a rubber band, I saw a needle that winked its eye. But I think I will have seen everything, when I see a...herd of giant killer rabbits?! Directed by William F. Claxton ("Bonanza", "Love, American Style"), Night of the Lepus (1972) stars Stuart Whitman (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Shatter), Rory Calhoun (Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, Revenge of Bigfoot), and Janet Leigh (Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate), in what probably isn't considered by most to be a highpoint in her cinematic career that spanned 50 years before she passed away in October of 2004...as far as Whitman is concerned, he was perfectly suited for this film. It's not that I hate the guy or anything, but I have been subjected to a number of stinkaroo projects in which he was prominently featured. Also appearing is DeForest "Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor!" Kelley (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan), Paul Fix ("The Rifleman"), and Melanie Fullerton ("The Gun and the Pulpit").

The film starts off with a special news report talking about population issues, specifically focusing on the dangers of introducing non-native wildlife to an unprepared ecosystem, to which we see footage of Australians battling a populous lepus aka rabbit scourge, initially brought in as a possible food source, but since have run amok due to their enthusiastic breeding and an insufficient predatory balance. We also learn a similar occurrence is happening in the American southwest...Cole Hillman (Calhoun) runs a cattle ranch, threatened by an ever increasing hare population, devouring his cattle's grazing lands (apparently he had a coyote problem prior, and the solution worked too well, leaving the rabbits without a natural balance). He turns to an acquaintance Elgin Clark (Kelley), who's president of a nearby university, for help, and Elgin hooks Cole up with the Bennett's, Roy (Whitman) and Gerry (Leigh), who are visiting researchers focused on safe (no poisons) and viable means to control pest populations. The husband and wife team are in the area, along with their annoying daughter Amanda (Fullerton), studying bats and how they might be used to control mosquito populations. The Bennett's agree to help, hoping to utilize an experimental hormone therapy serum, given to them by a colleague, to interrupt the rabbit's breeding cycle and halt their prodigiousness. But what happens when Amanda accidentally lets one of the test subjects loose? Well, it breeds with others, creating a ginormous, vociferous, ravenous army of nocturnal, floppy-eared varmints that eats everything (including people) in its path...oh the humanity...science...is there anything it can't (or won't) do? Say, what the hell was in that serum anyway?

I have to say, this was about the goofiest damn horror movie I've seen in awhile...I mean giant, killer rabbits? I will say the makers of this film stuck to their guns and really tried to make this a viable vehicle, but there is absolutely nothing horrifying about cute, cuddly, nose wrinkling bunny rabbits. Period. The construction of the film was solid, and had they inserted a different type of creature (roaches, spiders, dogs, marmosets, vernicious kanids, etc.), it probably would have worked, but they saddled themselves with rabbits, for better or worse...here's my favorite line from the film...near the end, a deputy heads to the drive-in to get the assistance of the patrons in some master plan to stop the impending invasion, and this is what he says on the bullhorn..." Attention! Attention! Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way and we desperately need your help!" And everyone believed him! Oh bruther...I've never been a big fan of Whitman, even though he was a relatively solid actor who's career peaked in the 60s (he was nominated for a Oscar for his role in the 1961 film The Mark), as he generally brought so little to his later roles, here being no exception...and that girl that played his daughter...ugh! I wanted to throttle her for her crimes against the profession. She certainly wasn't the worst child actor I've ever seen, but her annoyance factor was very high. And I love how she was never held accountable or felt even the slightest pang of guilt for her actions within the story, especially since she was the one responsible for the tainted rabbit getting loose. In a perfect world, cinematically speaking, she would have been one of the first victims beset by the plague she introduced into the environment, one that claimed the lives of many. As far as Janet Leigh, I just felt sorry for her...here's a woman who has appeared in one of the most memorable and influential shockers of all time (Psycho), now reduced to playing a bit part in one of the most laughable horror films ever made. And another thing, both Whitman and Leigh seemed a bit long in the tooth to have a daughter as young as she was...anyway, like I said, there was some misguided effort put forth by the makers of this film to really try and make it scary, in terms of visual trickery. Miniature sets were constructed to make it appear the rabbits where huge, along with close ups, quick edits, and chroma key shots. There were a couple of scenes where the rabbits did indeed appear as large as they were meant to be, but hardly made them frightening, instead making them even more cuddly and lovable. My favorite shots involved the guys dressed in rabbit suits, attacking the various townspeople. The shots were very short, but it was still obvious they were men dressed up in bad rabbit suits, especially the one sequence where one hare gets hit in the head with an object by the person it's attacking, and the man in the suit instinctively raises his costumed hands to protect his costumed head.

The widescreen (1.85:1) anamorphic picture on this DVD looks very sharp and clean, and the Dolby Digital mono audio comes through very well. The only extra available is a theatrical trailer. The extras certainly are slight, but fans of bad movies will definitely rejoice at this film finally finding an official DVD release.

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By the way, if you ever wanted to see DeForest Kelley in really bad polyester, here's your chance...also, if I learned anything from this film, its that people are not likely to stop and pick you up if you're hitchhiking down the road carrying a rifle...go figure...

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Wabbits!

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2023

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The wife and I sat down with a few beers and popcorn and enjoyed the show. Later in the night, she had nightmares of rabbits. I highly recommend this movie.

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Joel Wegner

B movie horror at its best.

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2023

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It was nice to find an edition of the movies with hard to find special features. I was happy that a "definitive edition" was out there.

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Terrible film in the best way!

Reviewed in Canada on June 18, 2020

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Hard to find grade A terrible film. Prepare yourself for hilarity as the least scary of all horror films stars bunnies walking through model train sets and “eating” people. The best part is this was a serious film and is played straight the whole way. This is a must watch for fans of bad movies.

Robin Pierce

Bad bunnies.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 6, 2021

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Fantastically terrible. We'll worth a watch.

Masticina Akicta

Goed, als je van oud en B-movies houdt.

Reviewed in the Netherlands on February 27, 2021

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Stel je voor, een doctor heeft een manier gevonden om de konijnen te laten stoppen met paren en op die manier zonder konijnen te doden de boerderijen te redden?
Natuurlijk gaat het mis, dit is een "creature feature" horror movie met gigantische konijnen. ... tja. Bekend van Rifftrax!
Het is technisch gezien saai, langzaam, karakters komen niet uit de verf. Maar maakt dat uit want zodat de konijnen er een beesteboel van maken en masaal aan komen krijg je een lach op je gezicht.
Dit is Riffing materiaal!
Is het goed? Nee... maar je zal zeker niet vergeten dat deze film bestaat.

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Night of the lepus

Reviewed in Australia on October 24, 2022

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A good laugh, even though the storyline is a bit corny.

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Reviewed in Canada on February 2, 2020

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Came in perfect condition, sealed movie. Took a long time to but still worth it!

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