[2] Janet Leigh, who played Gerry Bennett, took the role because it was being filmed close to her own home, allowing her to travel home on weekends and allowing her family to visit her on the set. Night of the Lepus is a great grade D drive-in type movie!
Roy proposes using hormones to disrupt the rabbits' breeding cycle and takes some rabbits for experimentation. Tom and Jerry Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. [3] Rory Calhoun was cast as rancher Cole Hilman, whose ranch would be the start of the rabbit explosion. [3] To craft the film, he pulled together people he had worked with on other Westerns. Jerry dives into a corner pocket as Tom returns in anger.
To many fans, this short has been known for its comedic violence and visual gags.
Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Cole proposes using a half-mile wide stretch of electrified railroad track as a fence to contain and kill the rabbits. As night falls, the rabbits leave Galanos to continue the rampage, making their way to the main town of Ajo and eating and killing everybody in their pathway. To further prevent the audience from thinking of cuddly bunnies in relation to the film, the theatrical posters featured no rabbits, instead displaying only eyes and referencing unnamed "creatures". Outside, a rabbit surfaces and attacks Jud before Gerry can shoot it.
The rabbit is the antagonist in a major set piece battle, and makes a similar appearance in Spamalot, a musical inspired by the movie. And just like bombing that one store, it would appear that if they simply took out, or hell, just closed off this one bridge, things would pretty much be under control by now. All Rights Reserved. But instead of that sweet release, we watch as more slow-mo bunnies leap off a cliff, in a shot that was obviously lifted from the earlier scene where rabbits attacked Cole’s horses. However, the Bennetts' daughter Amanda loves the injected rabbit, so she switches it with one from the control group.
[1] For other scenes, human actors were shown wearing rabbit costumes.
So I guess the filmmakers were so incompetent, they couldn’t even get the title right. Tom shoots all the balls in succession with his cue, and then tries to shoot Jerry, but the mouse hangs onto the cue tip. So bad in parts its laughable. They recruit a large group of people at a drive in theater to help herd the rabbits with their car lights, with assistance from the machine gun fire of the National Guard. Submit your email address to receive Barnes & Noble offers & updates. He takes swings at the stream with a mechanical bridge to hit Jerry, but only catches Jerry on the end of it. Tom tries again with an 6 and another 8, but Jerry bats them back into Tom's eyes.
Jerry Dunphy (June 9, 1921 – May 20, 2002) was an American television news anchor in the Los Angeles/Southern California media market. Isaac Stanford Jolley makes an appearance as a dispatcher, while Jerry Dunphy has a cameo as a television newscaster. Tom plays pool in a deserted pool hall, pocketing two balls by lowdown means (i.e. [16], In Horror Films of the 1970s, John Kenneth Muir felt Night of the Lepus was one of the "most ridiculous horror film[s] ever conceived", with a poor blend of horror and environmentalism that resulted in it being more of a comedy. Usually the host assumes a horror-themed persona, often a campy or humorous one. [11] In the 1977 piece Dark Dreams 2.0: A Psychological History of the Modern Horror Film, Charles Derry compared it to the earlier successful works The Birds and Willard , particularly the former, noting that both featured a "loveable creature". We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. Elgin, the Bennets, Cole, and Cole's two ranch hands, Frank and Jud, go to the mine to try to kill the rabbits with explosives. [4] Its home video release did not come until 33 years later, when Warner Home Video released an edited version to Region 1 DVD on October 4, 2005. "A hormone intended to alter the breeding cycle of rabbits overrunning ranchlands instead turns them into flesh-eating, 150-pound monsters in Night of the Lepus.
In Night of the Lepus, this was explained by stating that they were descended from recent rabbit farm escapees. He also criticized the principal performers, stating that the film featured a "group of so-so character actors", except Leigh who he considered a "star", and that all gave "wooden performances". Well known for his western work, Night of the Lepus put him in unfamiliar territory as it was his first science fiction role, however, he found familiarity in the Western film trappings and his role as a rancher. They use guns, flames and dynamite to subtract them. However, some Night of the Lepus promoters gave away the secret by sending out souvenirs decorated with rabbit's foot designs. Elgin, the Bennetts, Cole, and Cole's two ranch hands Frank and Jud go to the mine to try to kill the rabbits with explosives. They recruit a large group of people at a drive-in theater to help herd the rabbits with their car lights, with assistance from the machine gun fire of the National Guard.
One is injected with a new serum believed to cause birth defects. To depict the rabbit attacks, a combination of techniques were used. physically moving the side pocket and tipping the table up) and then wakes Jerry up by. [13], John J. Puccio of DVDTown.com felt Night of the Lepus would have been better had it been an intentionally humorous horror spoof, rather than a legitimate attempt at making a horror film with killer rabbits.
"A hormone intended to alter the breeding cycle of rabbits overrunning ranchlands instead turns them into flesh-eating, 150-pound monsters in Night of the Lepus. The whole train rebounds back towards the cat and the balls stack up at Tom's end of the table. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. [18] Scream Factory later released the movie on Blu-Ray on June 19, 2018. Its creature effects were designed by Academy Award-winning special effects artist Stan Winston. [3], The domesticated rabbits used in the film differed greatly in appearance from the wild rabbits that were plaguing the southwest at the time.
The film features an ensemble cast, including Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Nathan Gamble, Andre Braugher, Toby Jones, Frances Sternhagen, Buck Taylor, William Sadler, Sam Witwer, Alexa Davalos, Chris Owen, Andy Stahl, and future The Walking Dead actors Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn, Melissa McBride, and Juan Gabriel Pareja. At this point, Jerry breaks a rack of balls and all 16 of them fall into pockets, except for the 1-ball; the mouse whacks Tom cat on the head such that with his mouth open he groans in pain that the 1 falls into Tom's mouth. [4], According to Turner Classic Movies' David Kalat, the film's director William F. Claxton also came from a Western film background. The script for Night of the Lepus was based upon Australian author Russell Braddon's science fiction novel The Year of the Angry Rabbit (1964). Night of the Lepus is a great grade D drive-in type movie! Rancher Cole Hillman seeks the help of college president Elgin Clark to combat thousands of rabbitsthat have invaded the area after their natural predators, coyotes, were killed off. The film is rated R for violence, nudity, gore, and profanity. Screaming in terror, she runs from the mine.
Leviathan is a 1989 science fiction horror film directed by George P. Cosmatos and written by David Webb Peoples and Jeb Stuart. So I guess the filmmakers were so incompetent, they couldn’t even get the title right.
[6] For attack scenes, they had ketchup smeared on their faces. This 1972 effort, directed by William F. Claxton, is the story of how Doctor McCoy (OK, OK, DeForest Kelley, but in a really orange turtleneck) helped Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh and Rory Calhoun save the world from a herd of Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits.. No, really.
However, the Ben… Roy proposes using hormones to disrupt the rabbits' breeding cycle and takes some rabbits for experimentation. November 25, 1950, November 30, 1956 (reissued). [1] In his book Videohound's Horror Show: 999 Hair-Raising, Hellish, and Humorous Movies, critic Mike Mayo panned the film, calling the script "lame", the scenes of the rabbits "hopping around H0 scale sets in slow motion" humorous, and the rabbits just not scary. Better taken in parts than as a whole, Night of the Lepus is silly to its core, even if it never seems to get the joke in any of its grueling 90 minutes. Mutilated bodies begin to crop up around town, including those of Billy, a truck driver, and a family of four. In doing so, they removed many aspects of the novel (the plot of which focused on Australia dominating the world with a superweapon inadvertently created through the rabbits), and moved its setting from Australia to Arizona. The films in this tribute series reused the titles of old American International Pictures films, but are not remakes of the earlier films.
[1] [2] A. C. Lyles, known primarily for producing western films, would make Night of the Lepus his first and only science fiction production.
The film was the first science fiction work for producer A. C. Lyles and for director William F. Claxton, both of whom came from Western film backgrounds. [14] AMC Film Critic's Christopher Null states that it is famous as "one of the worst films ever made". To craft the film, he pulled together people he had worked with on other Westerns. Jerry is mad and walks up through the pocket, first sees nothing, but after a few steps back to the pocket, he spots Tom perched behind it. At the film's ending, Cole tells Roy that normal rabbits, as well as coyotes, have returned to the ranch.
[15] Reviewing the title for Classic-Horror.com, Julia Merriam gave Night of the Lepus credit for attempting to be a "socially-conscious eco-horror", but criticized the slow pacing, bad dialog, poor editing with a heavy reliance on stock footage that did not appear to be from the same film, and senseless character actions such as entering a rabbit-filled cave just to photograph them. To many fans, this short has been known for its comedic violence and visual gags. Noting that the film had "a certain overall charm and several striking sequences", he felt the film would have been more successful if it "had the courage of its convictions – and its realism". Jackie finds more of the animal tracks in Billy's shed, while Amanda goes into the mine and runs into an enormous rabbit with blood on its face. The tourists then go to the small town where the rabbits have killed everyone and are hiding in the buildings. The explosives fail to kill the rabbits, and that night they attack Cole's ranch, killing Jud while Cole, Frank, Jackie, and Cole's housekeeper escape into the storm shelter. So bad in parts its laughable. [8], In a July 1972 issue of The New York Times Vincent Canby wrote it was not an "especially memorable movie", that it was typical for the genre of science fiction horror, and that it failed because the rabbits, despite attempts to make them "appear huge and scary, still look like Easter bunnies". Okay, movie fans. "Night of the Lepus: TCM Underground - Insider Info", "Night of the Lepus: TCM Underground - In The Know", http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/807/Night-of-the-Lepus/home-video-reviews.html. DirectToU, LLC is the seller of all TCM merchandise and is solely responsible for all aspects of your purchase.
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