BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

AllAnimalsEden The production company of this film stated that they never harmed any rabbits that were suppose to be someone's pet. Well, considering that every rabbit used in this film was taken from a meat breeder or a dog pound pretty much tells that whole story. Rabbits are sensitive, loving and playful animals. They do no harm to any human. Yet in this movie, rabbits are stressed beyond their minds, abused plus killed on film for human entertainment. The helpless rabbits were subjected to no food or waters for many hours, then murdered in cold blood for pure human entertainment. In today's world, we fight to protect rabbits from the greed of Man, hoping no production company will ever abuse rabbits again in their blood lust for fame. In the time since the making of this horrible film, PETA, Last Chance For Animals and House Rabbit Society lobbied the United States Superior Court to put a stop to producers who try to use defenseless animals such as rabbits in films. Thank God we were successful. Please boycott this film as it doesn't represent who were are as a society any longer. We humans are now compassionate towards animal suffering and this film is a mockery against our evolution.

JasparLamarCrabb It's safe to assume that this is the only film you'll ever see that contains the line "there is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way." A really lousy thriller about giant rabbits terrorizing an Arizona town. Scientists Stuart Whitman & Janet Leigh inject a rabbit with a serum to help eliminate a growing Lepus problem. Their dim-witted daughter steals the rabbit and loses it out in the wild. Mayhem ensues in the form of some very bad special effects. This claptrap is not helped by some very stodgy acting (particularly by Rory Calhoun as a nature loving rancher) and very inert direction by William F. Claxton. Paul Fix and DeForest Kelley (sporting a mustache) are in it too. Claxton directed a number of great TWILIGHT ZONE episodes but had only a marginal film career. There's an OK music score by Jimmie Haskell, whose work as a composer consisted of scoring primarily exploitation films while he maintained a prolific career as an music arranger on such A-movies as THE COLOR PURPLE & BIG.

gavin6942 Cole Hillman's (Rory Calhoun) ranch is plagued with rabbits, and he wants to employ an ecologically sound control method. As a favor to Hillman, Elgin Clark (DeForest Kelley) calls in zoologist Roy Bennett (Stuart Whitman) to help. Bennett immediately begins injecting rabbits with hormones and genetically mutated blood in an effort to develop a method of disrupting rabbit reproduction.This is a film that has fared well in recent years compared to its original outing. There is no getting around it -- this is a pretty bad movie, with a young girl and Janet Leigh providing the most pointless characters and subpar acting. And the rabbits? I was surprised this was not Bert Gordon, because it is right up his alley.But now, looking back forty years, we can poke fun at it, and actually be fairly impressed by the effects. I would much rather see the miniature sets than a super-imposition or computer cheese. This looked about as real as large rabbits can, I suppose.Maybe they should not have taken themselves so seriously and they would have done better -- clearly the writer wanted a serious film, as the overall tone is quite realistic all things considered. But giant rabbits? That plays best as camp, and should have been written as such.

BA_Harrison Leeches, shrews, sheep, worms, frogs: there have been some pretty dumb killer animal movies over the years, but they all pale into insignificance compared with Night of the Lepus, which features hordes of over-sized man-eating rabbits rampaging through Arizona, devouring anyone who crosses their path. Such an idea might be excusable had tongue been firmly planted in cheek, but with all involved seemingly taking matters as seriously as possible, Lepus has deservedly gone down in the annals of cinema as one of the stupidest films ever made.The surprisingly decent cast includes Janet Leigh, Stuart Whitman, and DeForrest Kelly (taking whatever work comes his way after the cancellation of Star Trek), but despite their best efforts, they simply can't make big fluffy bunnies scary. Some reasonable miniature work and silly slow motion photography are used to make real rabbits appear larger than life, and there are a few surprisingly bloody moments to try and convince the viewer that the hopping horrors are truly terrifying, but the film is far more likely to cause fits of laughter than shivers of fright.6/10 for being so unintentionally hilarious and, consequently, a lot of fun.