History Film / NightOfTheLepus

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A giant rabbit claws a gap in a wooden floor in an apparent attempt to get at the humans in the cellar. Rabbits, like their distant rodent cousins, could far more easily ''gnaw'' their way through wood, and cannot claw through objects in that way.

* KillerRabbit: Hordes of them. And not a Holy Hand Grenade in sight.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the novel ''The Year of the Angry Rabbit'', the Australian government is not willing to do anything about the giant rampaging rabbits because of both being your standard disaster story SuitWithVestedInterests conclave and/or [[HanlonsRazor incompetent]]. The [[AmericaSavesTheDay American]] authorities of this film, once they get over a brief initial "giant rabbits? You must be joking!" period, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure immediately support the heroes]].

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In "The Year of the Angry Rabbit", the Australian government is not willing to do anything about the giant rampaging rabbits because of both being your standard disaster story SuitWithVestedInterests conclave and/or [[HanlonsRazor incompetent]]. The [[AmericaSavesTheDay American]] authorities of this film, once they get over a brief initial "giant rabbits? You must be joking!" period, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure immediately support the heroes]].

* HairRaisingHare. Our monsters for this film are huge man-eating rabbits. Well. It's what they were gunning for.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Well, they're not quite that big, but they are giant bunny rabbits, and they are attacking.

A 1972 film directed by William F. Claxton, telling the story of how Dr. Elgin Clark (Creator/DeForestKelley sporting an ''extremely'' orange turtleneck) helped Roy (Stuart Whitman) and Gerry (Creator/JanetLeigh) Bennett, along with rancher Cole Hillman (Rory Calhoun), to save the world – or a small town in Arizona, anyway – from a herd of '''Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits'''.

* TheFilmOfTheBook: According to the credits, at least, this is an adaptation of the 1964 novel ''The Year of the Angry Rabbit'' by Australian author Russell Braddon. The novel was actually a satire on corrupt politicians and the UsefulNotes/ColdWar nuclear arms race, with the addition of killer rabbits as a kind of DiabolusExMachina. Since they used a different title and completely different plot, it isn't clear why they bothered.

A 1972 film directed by William F. Claxton, it tells the story of how Dr. Elgin Clark (Creator/DeForestKelley sporting an ''extremely'' orange turtleneck) helped Roy (Stuart Whitman) and Gerry (Creator/JanetLeigh) Bennett, along with rancher Cole Hillman (Rory Calhoun), save the world from a herd of '''Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits'''.

* FilmOfTheBook: According to the credits anyway, this is an adaptation of ''Year of the Angry Rabbit'', by Russell Braddon. The book was actually a satire on corrupt politicians and the nuclear arms race, with the addition of killer rabbits as a DiabolusExMachina. Since they used a different title and completely different plot it isn't clear why they bothered.

Not to be confused with ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058392/ The Nasty Rabbit]]'' [[Film/{{Eegah}} starring Arch Hall, Jr. and written by Arch Hall, Sr.]], which revolves around a Communist plot to release rabbits infected with a deadly bacteria into the United States.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide, it's a killer!"]]]]

The premise is that experimental hormone injections, intended to stop the rabbits breeding as an environmentally-friendly form of pest control, actually cause them to become homicidal. One dosed-up bunny escapes into the wild and starts breeding with the local population. Suddenly there are hordes of killer rabbits running around.

A 1972 film directed by William F. Claxton, it tells the story of how Dr. Elgin Clark (Creator/DeForestKelley sporting an ''extremely'' orange turtleneck) helped Roy (CStuart Whitman) and Gerry (Creator/JanetLeigh) Bennett, along with rancher Cole Hillman (Rory Calhoun) save the world from a herd of '''Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits'''.

A 1972 film directed by William F. Claxton, it tells the story of how Dr. Elgin Clark (Creator/DeForestKelley sporting an ''extremely'' orange turtleneck) helped Roy (Creator/StuartWhitman) and Gerry (Creator/JanetLeigh) Bennett, along with rancher Cole Hillman (Creator/RoryCalhoun) save the world from a herd of '''Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits'''.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Throughout the movie Lepus is pronounced as alternately "Leap-Us" or "Leh-Pus." And ''both'' are wrong (it's pronounced the same as 'leper').

%% * HotScientist: It ''is'' Creator/JanetLeigh, after all...