Night of the Lepus |  | Director: William F. Claxton
Actors: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley, Paul Fix
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 30,955
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD67597D
ISBN: 1419814362
UPC: 012569675971
EAN: 9781419814365
ASIN: B000A0GOGE
Theatrical Release Date: October 4, 1972
Release Date: October 4, 2005
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Product Description
When an experiment goes horribly wrong, a herd of giant rabbits begins roaming the earth.
Genre: Horror
Rating: PG
Release Date: 4-OCT-2005
Media Type: DVD
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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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 BLOOD ON THE BUNNY'S MAW!... July 25, 2010
Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein (under the rubble)
Few films have come along that take cheeeze, merge it seamlessly w/ schlock, and turn it into high art. NIGHT OF THE LEPUS is such a film. Stuart Whitman (DEMONOID), Janet Leigh (PSYCHO, A TOUCH OF EVIL, THE FOG), Rory Calhoun (MOTEL HELL), and DeForest Kelley (STAR TREK THE ORIGINAL SERIES) star as a group of people out to stop the hip-pity-hop horde of carnivorous (omnivorous actually) bunnies before they over-run the planet. What makes NOTL so glorious are the multitudinous scenes of the riotous rabbits hopping, leaping, and killing! Killing! KILLING!! Watch, as they attack and annihilate cattle, horses, and unwary human snacks! If you appreciate the sublime ineptness of PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS, ROBOT MONSTER, or even FROGS, SQUIRM, or FOOD OF THE GODS, you simply MUST attain this masterpiece!...
Great B movie! February 10, 2010
Pamela J. Fox (St. Charles, IL United States)
A friend told me about this movie and I just had to see it! Giant bunny rabbits terrorize the Southwest! The special effects are fun -- I didn't know rabbits growled. They sound like a herd of horses when they're running across the desert. If you like B movies, don't miss this one! Don't take it too seriously, just enjoy it!
Classic Horrible Horror Movie December 24, 2009
Daniel T. Woodske (Beaver Falls PA)
A must if you like old school bad horror movies. The rabbit scenes are indescribalbe...classic is all I can say. Very much a need for anyone DVD collection.
 Night of the Lepus December 1, 2009
Seth C. Howard (Apalachin,ny)
You must be a fan of the old , cornball scifi , but if you are, you'll have a grand time : early days of "eco-science" where reality takes a back seat . You'll laugh and thrill at the same time . Pretty good "stuff" considering the age it was done .
Rabbit transit goes amuck April 6, 2009
bernie (Arlington, Texas)
Cute furry bunnies are overrunning a rancher's land. He enlists the help of a researcher to keep the bunnies from multiplying like rabbits. To save a test rabbit from its demise the researcher's young, already blond, daughter Amanda (Melanie Fullerton) exchanges the rabbit with a control group rabbit. You guessed it , now we have giant mutant fuzballs. What is worse is that they come from the wrong side of the railroad tracks and cannot be allowed to mingle with the people on the other side of the tracks. I will not say what becomes of them but it is a shocking ending.
This 1972 quasi-sci-fi film based on a book by Russell Brandon "The Year of the Angry Rabbit", has all the skill and pathos of a 50's sci-fi. They even throw in a flamethrower; you know the kind they use to fry giant ants and overgrown mantises. They took the time to put it on DVD but no effort to remaster or at least clean it up a bit for the large screens.
The film contains some pretty big names for the time; this includes DeForest Kelley; you may remember him as Bones in the original Star Trek series, Janet Leigh from the "Psycho"- shower scene, and Stuart Whitman from "When Worlds Collide" - as man by bank during riot instigation. Did I forget to mention Rory Calhoun; he needs no introduction.
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