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Bookmark this pageNight of the Lepus (1972)
Director: William F Claxton
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From Time Out Film Guide
The countryside is being terrorised by packs of giant man-eating - well, rabbits actually. Who thought this one up? Step forward Russell Braddon, Aussie author of Year of the Angry Rabbit, which producer AC Lyles recklessly decided to turn into a movie. The Lyles policy (see his numerous B-Westerns) of packing the cast with fading middle-aged stars has a certain gloomy fascination, as does the whole idea of rampaging bunnies emitting leopard-like growls as they bound along in slow-motion, intent on devouring the likes of DeForest Kelley. Impossible not to admire the total withholding of irony in Claxton's approach to this kamikaze project.Author: BBa
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- Richard Freeman said...
- Posted on Feb 19 2010 00:21 In Japan thee are ledgends of a yokai (monster) called Mouryo that isa huge, bipedal, grave robbing, flesh eating rabbit. It digs up dead bodies and eats their livers!
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- Richard Freeman said...
- Posted on Feb 18 2010 17:58 Soundtrack by Echo and the Bunnymen and staring Warren Beaty.
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Cast & crew
Director: William F Claxton
Producer: AC Lyles
Cast: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley, Paul Fix, Melanie Fullerton, Henry Wills, Robert Hardy full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 88 mins
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