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Remember the scene in “Fatal Attraction” where Glenn
Close goes all wiggy and where we see the bunny rabbit in
the pot stewing? I believe that rabbits have precognition
(you know, the ability to see a bad movie before its even
thought of) and they don’t suffer fools lightly. Yes, “Fatal
Attraction” made them hopping mad. “Night of the Lepus”
is the that revenge before-the-fact. Made at the nadir of
MGM’s existence during the 70’s, “Night of the Lepus” plays
like a bad 50’s horror movie that’s been colorized, buffed
to a nice sheen and served for your cult horror movie viewing
pleasure. What more could have gone wrong at MGM during
the 70’s? Honestly, the studio never really recovered from
James Aubry retooling the once regal giant into a potboiler
of a studio capable of only delivering a fair James Bond
movie now and again (and this of course oly after they BOUGHT
United Artists). But they sure do put out nice DVDs (or
Warner Home Video in this case since they inherited the
rights. I suspect that’s like inheriting a genetic disease
in this case). "Night of the Lepus" looks better than it
out to although the image does occasionally look soft. The
transfer is top notch over all. ***
Whitman and Leigh play Dr. Roy and Gerry Bennett who
scienstists without a clue who decide to inject a serum
that turns normal bunnies with normal incisors into giant
carnivorous bunnies with incisors ready to rip into the
fresh flesh of unsuspecting humans! The serum was designed
to interrupt the reproductive cycle of rabbits ending a
rabbit problem for a local rancher. Lesson learned that
when you deprive bunny rabbits of sex they get big (must
be all those surging hormones), angry and really, really
hungry. The bunnies then proceed to hop-hop-hop in slow
motion down the bunny trail and eat anything with a pulse.
What, you didn’t know that when bunnies become giant that
they move in slow motion? It ws in the “Giant Bunny Handbook”
in biology class. ---
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