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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Duke Nukum on March 14, 2008, 01:55:40 AM
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Hi
Before I forget, The Night of the Lepus is on TCM Friday night/Saturday Morning during their Underground thing. In the Central Time Zone it will be on at 1:15 AM.
It is, arguably, the best movie ever made about giant killer mutant rabbits and I think it is the only one, unless you count The Holy Grail. I remember watching this movie as a kid and finding it mostly boring with some unintentional humor. But I never knew a ptarmigan before, or about the millennia old war between the bunny rabbits and the ptarmigans, so I'm going to attempt to watch it with fresh eyes.
This is the line I always remember, and lucky it is on IMDB so I assured of quote accuracy: Attention! Attention! Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way and we desperately need your help!
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Night of the Lepus is just starting, the Bunny Event of the month.
I put on TCM just as Robert Osborn was giving closing remarks about Vertigo, a movie that has nothing whatsoever to do with rabbits that I can recall, and as he segued to commercial he said:
Up next: A horde of gigantic bloodthirsty rabbits terrorize Arizona. It's the Sound of Music...No it's not, its another installment of TCM's Underground.
Well, it doesn't sound so funny when I read it there, but it was pretty funny :-) Maybe it will make it to YouTube.
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I remember watching it on late-night TV as a teenager...couldn't believe they were seriously trying to pass off the close-up shots of bunnies stumbling into scale models as terrifying.
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Did they get McCain? Aw, shit, what would he be doing in AZ...
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I remember watching it on late-night TV as a teenager...couldn't believe they were seriously trying to pass off the close-up shots of bunnies stumbling into scale models as terrifying.
:rotf:
Hey it worked for this guy for years. All he did was wear a rubber suit
(http://imagecloset.com/4/10b3ba6a0a0ad28fa11d7440f373094f/godzilla.jpg)
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Paging Senor Snuggles...
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I remember watching it on late-night TV as a teenager...couldn't believe they were seriously trying to pass off the close-up shots of bunnies stumbling into scale models as terrifying.
:rotf:
I haven't seen it in years, since I was a teen too. I've thought of the movie much since encountering the feathered one.
Watching it again for the first time in ages, it was hilarious. Back then I didn't really follow actors and I didn't recognize Dr McCoy as being in it and I didn't see Psycho until I was 18 or 19 and had no idea who Janet Leigh was or that she was ever in actual good movies.
One of the funniest things was the pained reaction scenes, like when the sheriff looks at the first body covered in a red substance, though otherwise unmolested. Or when Janet Leigh's movie husband goes into the cave and he tells her to radio Dr McCoy and she has an over long pained reaction, lifts the radio to her mouth, and then lowers it again to extend the reaction of concern.
Or maybe she was thinking, as Janet Leigh, "Hey! I was killed by Psycho once. I am somebody! What am I doing in this horrible giant killer rabbit movie? I thought I was doing Harvey! *sob*"
I'm not sure if it was supposed to be an eco-disaster movie or a parody of an eco-disaster movie. The whole movie could have been avoided if one rancher would have just used poison and not gone looking to Science to solve all his problems. Science has it's own problems to worry about. And if it worries too much about your problems instead of its problems, we end up with giant killer mutant bunny rabbits.
Also, in some ways, it reminded me of Tremors, only without Kevin Bacon. And with a lot less competence. And a lot more giant killer mutant bunny rabbits.
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An excellent B movie...almost, not quite, but almost as good as Killer Klowns from Outer Space. I love the scene at the mine shaft just before they blow everything up. Melodrama just doesn't get any hokier than that! My favorite line, though is,
Roy: "But, doctor, rabbits as big and as ferocious as wolves? It isn't conceivable."
Cindie
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An excellent B movie...almost, not quite, but almost as good as Killer Klowns from Outer Space. I love the scene at the mine shaft just before they blow everything up. Melodrama just doesn't get any hokier than that! My favorite line, though is,
Roy: "But, doctor, rabbits as big and as ferocious as wolves? It isn't conceivable."
Cindie
I liked the bit where they are with the MP and he talks about using missiles against them.
Or "the bite of the lepus, that's the Latin word for rabbit, can be dangerous."
I wonder how far the rabbit hole goes for one of those giant mutant killer bunny rabbits?
And come on!! You're going to dynamite a cave to try and seal up and kill giant killer mutant bunny rabbits? Or hide in a storm cellar? Rabbits dig, hello! Is this thing on???
And could the rabbits have come in from the top of the cave? It seemed like quite a drop. Maybe there are some nuclear bunny physicists who know answer.
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An excellent B movie...almost, not quite, but almost as good as Killer Klowns from Outer Space. I love the scene at the mine shaft just before they blow everything up. Melodrama just doesn't get any hokier than that! My favorite line, though is,
Roy: "But, doctor, rabbits as big and as ferocious as wolves? It isn't conceivable."
Cindie
I liked the bit where they are with the MP and he talks about using missiles against them.
Or "the bite of the lepus, that's the Latin word for rabbit, can be dangerous."
I wonder how far the rabbit hole goes for one of those giant mutant killer bunny rabbits?
And come on!! You're going to dynamite a cave to try and seal up and kill giant killer mutant bunny rabbits? Or hide in a storm cellar? Rabbits dig, hello! Is this thing on???
And could the rabbits have come in from the top of the cave? It seemed like quite a drop. Maybe there are some nuclear bunny physicists who know answer.
I wouldn't worry to much . All those bunnies were killed off when the Giant Spider Invasion came along in 1975.
(http://www.mst3kinfo.com/daddyo/images/810SM.JPG)
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I'm worried. Ptarmy didn't respond to this?????? :o
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I'm worried. Ptarmy didn't respond to this?????? :o
I saw him in the Shout Box sometime before I posted this and let him know so maybe he doesn't feel the need to respond.
Later I decided to post it here for the benefit of all B-movie lovers.
They had Attack of the Puppet People on right after this one but I'd seen that one recently so it wasn't as exciting to me. If anyone hasn't seen that one, it's kind of a good B-movie.
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I remember watching it on late-night TV as a teenager...couldn't believe they were seriously trying to pass off the close-up shots of bunnies stumbling into scale models as terrifying.
:rotf:
Hey it worked for this guy for years. All he did was wear a rubber suit
(http://imagecloset.com/4/10b3ba6a0a0ad28fa11d7440f373094f/godzilla.jpg)
I think "Lepus" had (even) lower production values.
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