A movie which actually wants you to take bunny rabbits as a SERIOUS, deadly, enemy. Guess they aren't so cute anymore!...Well actually they look exactly the same. phelous.com / phelous Originally Released: January 13, 2010
The beginning's actually bad because horses can break their legs accidentally stepping in rabbit holes. Fun fact: before filming the scene of the Rohirrim charging in Return of the King they had to check the entire field for rabbit holes so the horses wouldn't get hurt.
And as we saw, not only is it very easy to have happen, if a horse breaks its leg, it’s basically made permanently nonfunctional and has to be euthanized. Horses kinda suck at life, don’t they?
It's kinda funny really. We constantly make stupid jokes about how badass Australians are because of all the deadly wildlife they live with that just looks like something from a horror movie. And then they make a horror movie and it's about bunnies.
This movie wants you to be afraid of kids. A kid caused the problem intentionally through lies and trickery, screwing things up so bad that even cute and harmless bunnies ended up murdering people violently and nearly destroying the ecosystem. And not only was the kid not sorry at all, she actually increased the body count by being a constant annoyance while the adults attempted to solve the problem.
That little girl needs to shut the hell up. I mean, she's clearly seeing her mom get attacked and keeps calling out her name while the mother is trying to survive. I say leave her behind.
***** Heh heh. Half the scars on my arms, no joke, come from rabbit scratches. You've got to be gentle with them even when they tear you up. That initial nervousness gives way if you show them they can trust you.
And moral of this movie is that should never let your kids be around your lab when your experimenting on rabbits, otherwise the your kids will let loose giant mutated man eating rabbits.
Funny story, at my high school Graduation ceremony students had to make a congratulatory speech. I couldn't do one so a teacher did it for me. He explained to everyone that I wanted to get into film, he referenced that I really liked this film. Yes. That was a real thing that happened. Also, this movie is the reason that I want to get a rabbit. I'm thinking a German Giant.
Did you know that carrots improving your eyesight was actually British proaganda started in WWII to explain why pilots were able to keep such good track of enemy planes Saying that they just ate tons of carrots Really it was thanks to radars :p
Did you also know that rabbits don't have a preference for carrots? The association of rabbits with carrots was started by Bugs Bunny, who ate carrots as an homage to Clark Gable's character in the movie *It Happened One Night.*
tbonevideos23 Well, carrots ARE good for your sight but yeah, there was a lot of exaggeration around them making you have a 20/20 vision, just like with Popeye and his magical spinachs that makes you strong and superhuman. 😁
Funniest part of the whole movie is when the rabbits are in the town and it's clearly normal rabbits in a painfully obvious model of a town. So funny that it ended up in "The Matrix". :)
My favourite scene of the entire movie is when one character is looking at a window of a store, and you see all the rabbits minding their own business around the tables and shit. It's just surreal. Wait- It's the scene you show around 13:33!
How in Q's name did I sit through all of "Night of the Lepus" this Easter and never *once* think of McCoy's giant white rabbit from "Shoreleave?!" The little blond girl touch makes it even better!
I've actually remember seeing most of this movie back in the early 90's on TNT's MonsterVision one night. I thought the concept of a giant bunny movie was scary back then, but I was in the 1st grade at the time. The actor playing Roy is the same actor who played Jim Jones (oh, sorry, I mean "James Johnson") in Guyana: Cult of the Damned. I love the inserts of Dr. McCoy in this review.
As a kid I saw the scene of the guy in the cabin being attacked with the woman shooting at it, and for years I had it in my head that he was attacked by a wildcat because after all, why the holy hell would someone legit be attacked by a giant rabbit? Oh well, memory solved. Also, as pleasantly surprising as it is that this movie went far enough to include mutilated bodies, but why would the giant rabbits only eat a little bit of their victims instead of all the food source like any reasonable predator?
Great stuff. One reference you missed? The "Invasion Of The Moon Creatures" episode of The Goodies, in which Earth is threatened by the evil, super-intelligent...BIG BUNNY. His troops even sing the Star Trek theme!
we were watching The Matrix yesterday and this movie was playing on the tv in the background during the part of the little kid explaining how to bend the spoon!!! i immediately thought of this review because i've never heard of the thing anywhere else lol. he was like "do not try and bend the spoon..." and i was liek "OMG THAT'S THE NIGHT OF THE LEPUS!!!"
This is my favorite video by Phelous. It's so ridiculously quotable. The hyperbole & melodrama begs to be watched by many people. Or, at least, by the weirdos that I call friends. "Because Night of the Bunny wasn't scary enough. " "Died by bunny! " "Bunnies must be holed up somewhere else! " The blending of Monty Python, Bones & That Science Guy (with the unknown serum) was freaking hilarious. Excellent work! Thanks!
The scenes were giant bunnies were running around in the mine kept reminding me of the suffocation underground scenes with the dying rabbits in Watership Down. I find myself laughing, but Watership Down was a pretty grim movie.
This makes me wonder why he hasn't reviewed 'Orca The Killer Whale' yet. There's literally a roaring killer whale out to avenge the death of his wife by killing Dumbledore who's pretending he's a fisherman on a boat called Bumpo. The Orca manages to blow up a gas station that causes the only road out of town to be blocked by a landslide. It's pure gold.
"With nasty, big pointy teeth" aslo fun fact, when i was younger I actually had nightmare about killer rabbits (that also included stuffed rabbits too, hey! I was like 9 lol) and I hadn't seen this until now.. also posted this before Phelous made the Monty Python refference lol called it
I tried to watch this movie in 7th grade, and it terrified me to the point where I couldn't finish it. Watching this review, I have to wonder what made me so scared. WATCH OUT! IT WILL KILL YOU WITH ADORABILITY (and also by mauling you)!!!
I remember seeing this movie in the 70's on t.v. Okay....RABBITS killed this guy's chickens. Since when do rabbits eat meat? I can't help but think of that song from Rabbit of Seville.... "OOOOhhhhh! Where do I get the WA-bit!" "Whaaat would you want with a Waaa-bit!?"
You know what’s messed up? The book the movie is based on is actually a horror comedy satire, it never took itself seriously. These filmmakers took a satirical novel and made it overly serious, reminds me of what happened to Leprechaun with that shitty reboot.
I wonder if they ever thought about reintroducing wolves into the environment. Y'know, Nature's way of keeping bunnies down. Hell, just get a dozen local dogs together and make it a fun family outing for the owners; the dog with the most dead rabbits wins!
The only way this movie would have worked is if they had Max from "Sam and Max" teaming up with Bugs Bunny to go on a murderous action movie rampage Kill Bill/Die Hard/Butch Cassidy-style! Now that would be a movie worthy of the name, "Night of the Lepus"! XD
