Night of the Lepus (1972)

88 min · Animalhorror, horror film, monster film, science fiction film

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Directors

William F. Claxton

Cast

Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley

The story

Rancher Cole Hillman seeks the help of college president Elgin Clark to combat thousands of rabbits that have invaded the area after their natural predators, coyotes, were killed off. Elgin asks for the assistance of researchers Roy and Gerry Bennett because they respect Cole's wish to avoid using cyanide to poison the rabbits. Roy proposes using hormones to disrupt the rabbits' breeding cycle and takes some rabbits for experimentation.

Catalogue themes and tags

Animal experiment, Experiment Gone Wrong, Farm, Genetic Engineering, Gentechnik, Kleinstadt, Mutant, National Guard, Plague, Rabbit, Thriller, Natural horror films, Science Fiction, Horror, B-movie

Genres

Animalhorror, horror film, monster film, science fiction film

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