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    Night of the Lepus (1972)

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    This cult classic centres on a hormone intended to alter the breeding cycle of rabbits overrunning farmland. Instead, the hormone turns these rabbits into flesh-eating, 150-pound monsters.

    Roy Bennett (Stuart Whitman) and his wife Gerry (Janet Leigh) interrupt their studies of bats to investigate odd phenomena in a desert ranching area. Rabbits are overbreeding like crazy, making grief for rancher Cole Hillman (Rory Calhoun).

    Unfortunately, the bunny-loving Bennett daughter Amanda (Melanie Fullerton) switches test animals involved in Roy’s genetic experiment and then lets one of them go.

    Herds of oversized carnivorous rabbits are soon threatening livestock, ranches and any human they can catch until the scientist solves the problem with a crazy extermination scheme involving high power lines and some railway tracks.

    Unfortunately, no matter how you photograph and light groups of bunny rabbits, they look cute, and not in the least bit threatening. Exhibit 1: Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).

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    Roy Bennett
    Stuart Whitman
    Gerry Bennett
    Janet Leigh
    Cole Hillman
    Rory Calhoun
    Elgin Clark
    DeForest Kelley
    Sheriff Cody
    Paul Fix
    lepus6Amanda Bennett
    Melanie Fullerton
    Jackie Hillman
    Chris Morrell
    Jud
    Chuck Hayward
    Frank
    Henry Wills
    lepus5Mildred
    Francesca Jarvis
    Dr Leopold
    William Elliott
    Professor Dirkson
    Robert Hardy
    Deputy Jason
    Richard Jacome
    Housekeeper
    Inez Perez
    Walker
    Roy Gaintner

    Director
    William F. Claxton

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