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| Rabbits galore |
Inspecting the rabbits |
Testing lab |
Well, this little gem of a movie was brought to my attention. It's about rabbits. Big rabbits. So how can you go wrong with
that. It's very hard, but there's one thing you can't do. And that is take it too seriously. Given playing it
straight came sometimes add to the campiness of the movie, this was so dead on serious, I'm really not sure what
to think.
We start off with a news but about how rabbits are multiplying so fast they're killing off all the crops and
generally just not being cute like they're supposed to. Then a horse is seen riding across the barren land
and trips over a rabbit hole, thus breaking it's leg. The rider does what any kind soul would do, and kills it.
So the rabbits must go. And what better person to do it than a guy who traps bats and hates chemicals. He pops on
by and throws some rabbits in a barrel to be sent off for testing. His wife scientifically describes the process
as "making jack a little more like jill, and jill a little more like jack". Freaky stuff they do in those labs.
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| Releasing the test group rabbit |
Big footprint |
h'yuck |
Meanwhile, their creepy albino daughter wants to keep one of the rabbits. Knowing she'll only be able to keep one
from a control group, she picks her favourite (which is from the testing group and has just gotten a shot of
*something*), and switches it with a control bunny, so she'll be able to keep it. Well, missy, that was a big
mistake, since her new friend decides to grab it and throw it out into the wild. Hence the rest of the movie takes
place.
Some farmers start burning the brush for who know what reason, I forget. Some guys bring their horses to a
water hole and see a rather large footprint they guess is from a 150 lbs mountain lion. The albino kid and
her friend go off wandering around a mine shaft. After poking around a bit, the girl sees the body of the miner
and some big rabbits. She screams and faints.
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| The blood moved, it must be big rabbits |
Sweeeet |
Rabbits trampling the land |
She ends up back home and they try to get the boy to answer some questions about the cave. He doesn't remember
though, so that's not much help. They run some tests and after seeing some blood move (ain't it always the case)
they determine that the rabbits have grown. So they all go on a field trip with some TNT and scope out the cave.
They find some holes in the top of the cave and throw some rocks in. This causes a lot of howling. The scientist
goes in to explore the cave and comes across all the rabbits and takes some pictures. They start to chase him,
and as this is happening, one rabbit comes out of the ground and attacks someone. Everyone gets out of the cave
and they set the dynomite off, and blow it all up. But later on in the night, the rabbits emerge from the rubble
and come to town.
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| See, they are big |
Chopper |
Hardly a convienence store now |
So the rabbits are none too please and annoy the horses. The horses make a commotion and break out. Some guy
drives off in his truck and manages to take out the phone wires so the scientist can't call for help. They
guy who was driving the truck falls out and is eaten while the people down at the police station leave and the
receptionist gets eaten. Same for some convienence store. The deaths just keep on rollin' baby. You know what
time it is.
Some guys get in a helicopter and visit the cave. They throw some rocks in and look at the scenery, then head back.
After talking at the police station, the rabbits are outand about causing trouble, so the guys form a plan.
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| Galloping bunnies |
Amry's moving in |
The drive in |
They decide to electrify the rail-road tracks. One done, every single rabbit falls across the track and dies.
The END
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| Not sure if this is fake |
Electrified rail |
Electrified bunny |
I sorta skipped out on any details towards the end, because there's not a whole lot to say. There were some cartoons
and a scifi epic about a man who turned invisible after the movie, but I couldn't watch them. It had just been too
much to deal with after watching the lepus. So all in all, had it not been so serious, it would have been an
entertaining movie. Maybe.
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