Night of the Lepus

Night of the Lepus (also known as Rabbits) is a 1972 American science fiction horror thriller film about an infestation of giant mutant rabbits who terrorize the south-west.
 * Directed by William F. Claxton. Written by Don Holliday and Gene R. Kearney, based on the 1964 novel The Year of the Angry Rabbit by Russell Braddon.

They were born that tragic moment when science made its great mistake... now from behind the shroud of night they come, a scuttling, shambling horde of creatures destroying all in their path. taglines

Roy Bennett

 * Can you hear it? That's the cry of fear.

Gerry Bennett

 * Rub his foot while your at it, honey, and see what kind of luck that brings us. As a matter of fact, rub all four of them.


 * Rabbits aren't exactly Roy's bag.

Sheriff Cody

 * What we need is a fence about two miles long and 20 feet high.

Other

 * Officer Lopez: Attention! Attention! Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way and we desperately need your help!


 * Husband in Car: Picking up no strangers, Susan. I said that when we left Denver, and I'm sticking with it. Especially a man carrying a gun!


 * Major White: We've got 'em. We'll hit the whole town with rockets. I've got two fighter-bombers on the runway in Tucson right now.

Dialogue

 * Priest: [after being flagged down on the highway outside of town] What's the matter?
 * Cole Hillman: If I told you, father, you'd think I've been drinking!


 * Dr. Leopold: I've studied abnormalities and birth defects all my life. It's come pretty close to home for me. I see them all the time. Naturally, I'd like to believe they don't exist. Unfortunately, they do.
 * Roy Bennett: But doctor, rabbits as big and as ferocious as wolves? It is inconceivable!
 * Dr. Leopold: The genetic code of every living thing is contained in each cell of that organism. Now, assuming, inadvertently, we introduced defective cells into that one rabbit. It's conceivable that we could have created the seeds of a mutated species.


 * Roy Bennett: There might be another way to whip this problem, Cole.
 * Cole Hillman: How?
 * Roy Bennett: Hormones!


 * Amanda Bennett: What are we going to do, Mommy?
 * Gerry Bennett: Well, don't worry, Sweetheart, we'll be all right.

Taglines

 * They were born that tragic moment when science made its great mistake... now from behind the shroud of night they come, a scuttling, shambling horde of creatures destroying all in their path.


 * How many eyes does horror have? How many times will terror strike?

Cast

 * Stuart Whitman - Roy Bennett
 * Janet Leigh - Gerry Bennett
 * Rory Calhoun - Cole Hillman
 * DeForest Kelley - Elgin Clark
 * Paul Fix - Sheriff Cody
 * Melanie Fullerton - Amanda Bennett
 * Chris Morrell - Jackie Hillman
 * Chuck Hayward - Jud
 * Henry Wills - Frank
 * Francesca Jarvis - Mildred
 * William Elliott - Dr. Leopold
 * Robert Hardy - Professor Dirkson
 * Richard Jacome - Deputy Jason
 * Evans Thornton - Major White
 * Robert Gooden - Leslie
 * Don Starr - Cutler