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I kind of want to know what cause the night of the lepus-
It all starts with one radioactive bunny. There's a lab doing experiments out in the desert and someone brings their little girl in who sees the bunnies and feels bad about them and steals one and let's it go out in the desert.
This bunny then does what bunnies do best. Or at least most often. Thus this one bunny begats a adorable terrifying giant swarm of bunnies with a taste for blood. Human blood.
But they weren't a human/bunny mix? Because that's how the Scifi channel would do it.
(P-C - a flock of passenger pigeon/human hybrids = ecological disaster.)
No they aren't human/bunny hybrids. They are giant bunnies though. I'm sure they didn't have a budget for anything like costumes, even leftover Easter bunny costumes. They have the bunnies hopping through a model train set to show how big they are.
There was one movie that SFX'd their giant locust by taking a picture of grasshoppers on a picture of a building. I'm not making this up.
There was one movie that SFX'd their giant locust by taking a picture of grasshoppers on a picture of a building. I'm not making this up.
MST3K did that one. THE BEGINNING OF THE END, I think. With Peter Graves as the scientist hero.
MST3K did that one. THE BEGINNING OF THE END, I think. With Peter Graves as the scientist hero.
Peter Graves went to the University of Minnesota!
Peter Graves went to the University of Minnesota!
Yeah, didn't somebody write a play about that?
I've always wondered -- how do movies like this greenlighted? I understand that people take jobs to pay the bills, but how does someone read a script about Radioactive Giant Rabbits Terrorizing the Desert and decided to make it and sell other people on the deal.
I also really like the 39 Steps (particularly the rawther kinky handcuff scene)Have you seen The Lodger?
sure they didn't have a budget for anything like costumes
They did so! When the giant bunny attacks a… miner? They mix together shots of the bunny in the toy house with close up shots of the miner being swatted at by a guy in a bunny costume. Like, the kind you can rent?
I like the part where the matte effect was messed up so one rabbit hops through a fence or a log or something.
Yeah, didn't somebody write a play about that?Heh. Yes. It was very educational.
My former project manager burned me a copy of NIGHT OF THE LEPUS (which he rented after I told him about the movie's existence; this came up after I told him to watch the BLACK SHEEP trailer). I still haven't watched it yet, apart from the trailer, but I'm going on the assumption that I need a group of people and some form of booze in generous quantities to maximize the experience.
I almost brought it to the Atlanta F2F, but I don't think it would have stood a chance with the vids and the SPN. A shame; it seems like it would be primo Buffista fodder.