Killer Rabbits Tonight on Svengoolie

 Night of The Lepus

1972 | PG | 1 Hour 28 Minutes | Horror | MGM

Director: 

William F. Claxton

Writers: 

Don Holliday 

Gene R. Kearney 

Stars: 

Stuart Whitman

Janet Leigh

Rory Calhoun

Cole Hillman's Arizona ranch is plagued with 'mongrel' rabbits, and he wants to employ an ecologically sound control method. As a favor to college benefactor Hillman, college president Elgin Clark calls in zoologist Roy Bennett to help. Bennett immediately begins injecting rabbits with hormones and genetically mutated blood in an effort to develop a method of disrupting rabbit reproduction. One of the test subjects escapes, resulting in a race of bloodthirsty, wolf-sized, man-, horse-, and cow-eating bunnies. Eventually, the National Guard is called in for a final showdown with the terrorizing rabbits.

Wow, I have never seen Night of the Lepus looking forward to Killer Rabbits! I mean come on the killer rabbit effects were created mostly by normal-sized rabbits running around on miniature sets. A man in a rabbit suit was used for some attack scenes this is pure gold baby! For the attack scenes, ketchup was smeared on the rabbits' faces to simulate blood.

So have you seen Night of the Lepus? Am I in for a trick or a treat?