YMMV / Night of the Lepus

• Adaptation Displacement: The film remains a notorious cult classic whereas the book it's (nominally) based on has long since faded into obscurity.
• Angst? What Angst?: Amanda gets over losing her rabbit too easily.
• Audience-Alienating Premise: There's a pretty good chance that horror fans won't be too intimated by the concept of Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits, since the only attempts that were made to make the bunnies even remotely scary were the growling noises, slow motion, and extreme close-ups. Even then, the effects are overused and largely unconvincing.
• Cult Classic: Garnered a cult status thanks to its So Bad, It's Good nature.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: It's hard not to think of the Killer Rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, released two years after this film.
• Narm: At one point, Doctor Leopold seems to seriously consider a vampire. Or a saber-tooth tiger.
• Nightmare Retardant: Given the whole 'took cute widdle nose-twitching pet bunnies and filmed them in extreme close-up' attitude to SFX on display here, it's really hard to take these Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits seriously even were you inclined to try. You're more likely to be scared of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.
• The Scrappy: Many people hate Amanda for her constant screaming and the fact that she made the plot possible.
• So Bad, It's Good: Really, you just can't hate this movie, simply because of its charming stupidity.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits are shown stomp... er, hopping around obviously fake miniature sets.
  • The green screen effects are painfully obvious.
  • Not to mention the scene with the rabbit attacking a guy in his bedroom, where it switches between a guy in a rabbit suit and a taxidermy rabbit.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Some reviewers have argued that the film would've worked better if it was either a parody of the horror genre or if the plot was just simply Played for Laughs a la Airplane!. The fact that it's adapted from an Australian satire where the concept is played for laughs doesn't help.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: One reason why it's such a laugh riot is because the actors and everyone else involved with the production took the premise (again, Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits) completely seriously.

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