leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) (06/14/85)
Someone who wrote to me recently was complaining how bad the film NIGHT OF THE LEPUS was. I have a comment about that... NIGHT OF THE LEPUS has an undeserved reputation for being really bad. It is really only mediocre. We have a tendency to think of rabbits as little meek things and to find them cute so it is hard to think of them as monsters. YEAR OF THE ANGRY RABBIT, which I am told was quite decent as a book, was not a good choice to be made into a film. The film was not THAT terrible, it just wasn't very good. It was no worse than, say, KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS, a similar film that got away without all the notoriety that LEPUS got. Some breeds of rabbit, I am told, can be fierce fighters and large rabbits that fierce could easily be dangerous. It didn't help the film that some of the visualizations of the rabbits looked like something out of Captain Kangaroo. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper