The 1950s were the golden decade of monster movies--ants, praying mantises, Martians, spiders, gill-men, and many others wreaked havoc on defenseless actors time and time again. The monster cycle seemed to end in the early 1960s, then in 1972 "Night of the Lepus" was released.
I won't go into the plot very much, but it involves an invasion of giant rabbits who commit violence on a number of well-known actors, including DeForest Kelley, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, and Stuart Whitman. The rabbits are shown two ways, as regular sized bunnies in miniature sets, and as actors in rather shabby rabbit costumes. Often the homicidal bunnies are shown with blood on their incisors, much to the audience's amusement. The rabbits are defeated in the movie's bravura conclusion, which comes none too soon.
I didn't know what to think when I first saw this film, but my friends and I had had several beers by the time it was over. I guess Leigh, Kelley, Calhoun and Whitman really needed the work, but it must have been a really entertaining movie to make, and the cast does a pretty good job considering the material they had. It's a 1950s movie from 1972, and it really isn't too bad if you're in the right frame of mind.
I won't go into the plot very much, but it involves an invasion of giant rabbits who commit violence on a number of well-known actors, including DeForest Kelley, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, and Stuart Whitman. The rabbits are shown two ways, as regular sized bunnies in miniature sets, and as actors in rather shabby rabbit costumes. Often the homicidal bunnies are shown with blood on their incisors, much to the audience's amusement. The rabbits are defeated in the movie's bravura conclusion, which comes none too soon.
I didn't know what to think when I first saw this film, but my friends and I had had several beers by the time it was over. I guess Leigh, Kelley, Calhoun and Whitman really needed the work, but it must have been a really entertaining movie to make, and the cast does a pretty good job considering the material they had. It's a 1950s movie from 1972, and it really isn't too bad if you're in the right frame of mind.