Night Of The Lepus

Starring: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, et al.

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?

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 012569675971
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Publisher: Warner Home Video
• Director: William F. Claxton
• Starring: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley, Paul Fix, Melanie Fullerton, Chris Morrell, Chuck Hayward, Henry Wills, Francesca Jarvis
• Runtime: 1 hour, 28 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Closed-captioned; Color; DVD; Widescreen; NTSC; Subtitled
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Rabbit transit runs amok

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 fuzzballs. 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 50s 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 made 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 a man by the bank during riot instigation. Did I forget to mention Rory Calhoun? He needs no introduction. They all have a chance to become well Lepus-pray.