Thus the true message of this movie: poison rules. “Night of the Lepus” (1972): Janet Leigh starred in one of the great horror films of all time: “Psycho.” “Night of the Lepus,” doesn’t reach those heights. NOIRLATHOTEP 2: MORE TALES … And as eco-horror emerged in the 1970s, someone made a movie called Night of the Lepus. Synopsis. Mike Burr. When rabbits overrun a farmer’s land, he turns to a local scientist for a cure rather than poison them. ON SALE NOW! March 4, 2021. What makes … So it goes in Night of the Lepus (Latin for rabbit, as characters frequently remind each other and the audience.) The yield is a very average B movie burdened by its own non-compos-mentis umbilical concept. Search. Q Clearance. Lepus means in Latin "Hares', but the movie has both hares and rabbits. In this 70s monster movie, mutated super rabbits terrorize the community. NIGHT OF THE LEPUS is ridiculous in its attempts to scare, generating nothing but laughs from start to finish. First off, the movie is call 'Night of the Lepus'. You have to understand, I'm a Night of the Lepus fan from way back. Almost as weird and fun as watching the movie itself. NIGHT OF THE LEPUS was a fool-notion that shouldn't have reached the drawing-board stage, but somehow---it did. Recent. With a fifty-million dollar budget, Scorsese directing, and Meryl Streep in the lead, you'd still end up with THE SAME AUDIENCE REACTION. I discovered its furry goodness on TCM late one night when I was in high school, and it's been a classic for me and my brother ever since, positively in stitches over every choice line of cheesy dialogue and… Somewhere in Texas, hordes of hungry rabbits are ravaging local farmers’ crops. Q Clearance. Cast: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun Join free to stream Night of the Lepus In an effort to curb the rabbit population, two college scientists test an experimental hormone on a handful of lab rabbits. Mike Burr. Featured. Fiction, PDI Press Writers. March 4, 2021. Without the bad aftertaste, along with having to actually watch it. PDI Press. The town is suddenly attacked by herds of mutated, bloodthirsty rabbits, who have now become the size of humans. There are several important differences between rabbits and hares even though both animals belong to the Lagomorpha order of mammals. The rabbits are filmed up close in slow-motion and dripping with blood as they maul the locals, but they are only as cute as they are harmless. Watch Night Of The Lepus movie trailers, exclusive videos, interviews from the cast, movie clips and more at TVGuide.com. Night of the Lepus is genuinely a science-fiction/horror in name only. Night of the Lepus is the movie adaptation of the novel The Year of the Angry Rabbit by Russell Braddon.It's an Australian-American science horror fiction that tells the story set in a small town of Southwest. It’s Part Three of the review of Night of the Lepus ! 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