Night of the Lepus - Phelous

A movie which actually wants you to take bunny rabbits as a SERIOUS, deadly, enemy. Guess they aren't so cute anymore!...Well actually they look exactly the same.
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Originally Released: January 13, 2010

[@lizzychrome7630]

"What's up Doc" is the best pre-murder one-liner for a giant rabbit ever.

[@Gat720Dua]

It's hard to talk about killer rabbits without bringing up Monty Python.

[@asafisher8288]

I thinks it's illegal not to

[@mr.outlaw231]

Awww....I was going to make the reference...directly....

[@Gat720Dua]

Alexander Washington It's pretty much the easiest joke you can ever make.

[@Ogihci2]

+Gat the Man Or watership Down. XD

[@Ogihci2]

+Gat the Man Or watership Down. XD

[@GermanLeftist]

It's quite simple to kill a killer rabbit actually, you just need a holy hand grande of antioch.

[@philbettinger1741]

or a gun. or a baseball bat

[@omnicowdemon]

Mario Quade 😁

[@colbyjones7816]

Don’t forget to count 1, 2, 5 after you pull out the pin!

[@jedimarhwini948]

The beginning's actually bad because horses can break their legs accidentally stepping in rabbit holes. Fun fact: before filming the scene of the Rohirrim charging in Return of the King they had to check the entire field for rabbit holes so the horses wouldn't get hurt.

[@gingaddict]

Cool for the filmmakers to be so considerate!

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

Most of the horses were actually CGI they only had about mabey 50 horses the rest were CGI

[@Dreigonix]

And as we saw, not only is it very easy to have happen, if a horse breaks its leg, it’s basically made permanently nonfunctional and has to be euthanized. Horses kinda suck at life, don’t they?

[@gingaddict]

@@Dreigonix I wouldn't say that they have cautions like any animal has, even people have that. they just don't like to talk about it.

[@Dreigonix]

@@gingaddict But humans _are_ pretty legendary for their endurance compared to a lot of other animals. We can break an arm or a leg and keep on going.

[@kylecrofts3481]

Judy Hopps is watching this film in sheer confusion.

[@NodDisciple1]

Or terror at how the rabbits are being mistreated.

[@MrBlueSkyof1607]

Confusion or befuddlement?

[@Fusilier7]

As Judy Hopps said, It's not like a bunny can go savage.

[@NodDisciple1]

Have you ever seen or read Watership Down? X_x

[@AmaryInkawult]

That serum must have had Night Howlers blended in.

[@mitchfletcher2386]

@@AmaryInkawult NIGHT HOWLERS?!

[@brunobucciaratiswife]

@@mitchfletcher2386 did someone say howl...? I can’t help it- AWOOOOOOOOOO

[@siegfriedmeyke6631]

It's kinda funny really. We constantly make stupid jokes about how badass Australians are because of all the deadly wildlife they live with that just looks like something from a horror movie. And then they make a horror movie and it's about bunnies.

[@Lesbiwolf92]

+Siegfried Meyke This is an American movie actually.

[@siegfriedmeyke6631]

Lesbiwolf92 But based on an Australian book.

[@Lesbiwolf92]

So Australia and America came together to scare the masses with bunnies, beautiful.

[@NodDisciple1]

Lana, aren't the dingos starting to eat them now, though? I mean, Dingos used to be the big threat to Australian wildlife, weren't they?

[@omnicowdemon]

E Quinn 😄

[@davymartini64]

at 4:56 I genuinely feel bad. Some jackass on set squirted ketchup in a poor bunnies face.

[@mjxbox]

i heard they fed them french fries. theres where the ketchup came from.

[@lettylunasical4766]

I'll stick to real bunny rabbit horror films such as 'Watership Down' thank you very much.

[@darlingnikki1984]

Nice Snob reference there ;-)

[@NodDisciple1]

What about Bunnicula?

[@omnicowdemon]

Letty Lunasical That shit fucked with my head when I was a child. 😧

[@Keznen]

That film is a masterpiece just like the book it was based on. This shitty movie can't even begin to compare to it.

[@Darkcyndermaya]

@@NodDisciple1 That bunny wasn't even a real monster just a misunderstood creature who liked vegetables.

[@dandrawsit4915]

For the rabbits on the electric train tracks, I guess you could say they were Energized...

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

Or Duracell if you live in Europe

[@Zucca101]

I used to raise rabbits in 4-H. I remember when they would inexplicably grow to the size of cattle and try to kill people...

[@Zucca101]

***** Heh heh. Half the scars on my arms, no joke, come from rabbit scratches. You've got to be gentle with them even when they tear you up. That initial nervousness gives way if you show them they can trust you.

[@NodDisciple1]

Jeez, where did you live, H.P. Lovecraft Country in Massachusetts or Stephen King Country in Maine? X_x

[@MrBlueSkyof1607]

​​@@NodDisciple1Nah. If we're going by the prospect of giant animals, that's gotta be William Alland Country in Arizona. (1955's *"Tarantula!"* )

[@theshipper5797]

That little girl needs to shut the hell up. I mean, she's clearly seeing her mom get attacked and keeps calling out her name while the mother is trying to survive. I say leave her behind.

[@QJ89]

Amanda's a masochist as well: she let her bunny loose to mate with the contaminated ones and isn't the least bit guilty about it!

[@reptile1677]

I’m pretty all that would do is distract her

[@jjjmadness8306]

And moral of this movie is that should never let your kids be around your lab when your experimenting on rabbits, otherwise the your kids will let loose giant mutated man eating rabbits.

[@MSTe98]

J Montgomery When will they learn?

[@NodDisciple1]

You shouldn't let kids in a government lab at all!

[@AmaryInkawult]

This is why we must bring back child leash laws for kids under 8 years old. They're simply too dangerous to left alone to their own devices.

[@Shenaldrac]

I think the solution is to stop having children. End the child menace once and for all!

[@handsomebrick]

This movie wants you to be afraid of kids. A kid caused the problem intentionally through lies and trickery, screwing things up so bad that even cute and harmless bunnies ended up murdering people violently and nearly destroying the ecosystem. And not only was the kid not sorry at all, she actually increased the body count by being a constant annoyance while the adults attempted to solve the problem.

[@amylady6]

Condom: the Movie!

[@sonadowfangirl30869]

+Amy Lady And then you discover there's an actual horror movie about a killer condom.

[@GOFFBITZH666]

Wait, there is?!

[@TheAngelmisa]

TooMuchFreeTime O.O Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!?

[@tbonevideos23]

Did you know that carrots improving your eyesight was actually British proaganda started in WWII to explain why pilots were able to keep such good track of enemy planes Saying that they just ate tons of carrots Really it was thanks to radars :p

[@dragonkeeper19600]

Did you also know that rabbits don't have a preference for carrots? The association of rabbits with carrots was started by Bugs Bunny, who ate carrots as an homage to Clark Gable's character in the movie *It Happened One Night.*

[@anikmonette2140]

tbonevideos23 Well, carrots ARE good for your sight but yeah, there was a lot of exaggeration around them making you have a 20/20 vision, just like with Popeye and his magical spinachs that makes you strong and superhuman. 😁

[@earlthepearl6414]

Carrots have lutein and vitamin A which ARE good for your eyes. It prevents night blindness and degenerative diseases. Not propaganda at all.

[@bigbossshrek3327]

@@earlthepearl6414 what about spinach?

[@gracekim25]

Oh…..

[@9-bitfox]

Someguy: OMG THEY ATE HIM. AND THEN THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSHHHHH

[@Metalheadgangster]

Funny story, at my high school Graduation ceremony students had to make a congratulatory speech. I couldn't do one so a teacher did it for me. He explained to everyone that I wanted to get into film, he referenced that I really liked this film. Yes. That was a real thing that happened. Also, this movie is the reason that I want to get a rabbit. I'm thinking a German Giant.

[@Jamescush]

Only Bunnicula could of made these wounds!

[@NodDisciple1]

What about a British Were-Rabbit?

[@MediumRareOpinions]

They're vegetarian though. A real menace to Gardens....

[@hypnotised-clover]

Have*, not of.

[@SchlubbyTomHanks]

i for one welcome our giant bunny overlords

[@AmaryInkawult]

Ziltoid the Omniscient they are as terrifying and powerful as they are fluffy.

[@dislexic498]

Its over there! What, behind the Rabbit? It is the rabbit.

[@DalekTheSupreme]

You silly sod! I you had us all worked up!

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

Funniest part of the whole movie is when the rabbits are in the town and it's clearly normal rabbits in a painfully obvious model of a town. So funny that it ended up in "The Matrix". :)

[@NodDisciple1]

This was in The Matrix?

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

You don't need McCoy for this... You need Elmer Fudd. :)

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

***** Yeah, a lot of guys I'm sure. ")

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

***** It's wabbit season. :)

[@NodDisciple1]

But he's horrible at hunting rabbits!

[@Fanimati0n]

Brother Malachai * wabbits *

[@FlintDragoon]

All they had to do is call Elmer Fudd

[@mungdaal9643]

He'd probably shoot himself by accident

[@NodDisciple1]

But he's horrible at hunting!

[@FrenchPaul1988]

"I'm hunting giant wascally wabbits."

[@mitchfletcher2386]

@@FrenchPaul1988 Huhuhuhuh!

[@hypnotised-clover]

He has not caught a single wabbit, but to be fair, wabbits are vastly different from rabbits.

[@captainsealed]

Watership Down finally makes sense.

[@Tareltonlives]

The Star Trek jokes in this are perfect

[@lizzychrome7630]

How in Q's name did I sit through all of "Night of the Lepus" this Easter and never *once* think of McCoy's giant white rabbit from "Shoreleave?!" The little blond girl touch makes it even better!

[@maesejesus]

My favourite scene of the entire movie is when one character is looking at a window of a store, and you see all the rabbits minding their own business around the tables and shit. It's just surreal. Wait- It's the scene you show around 13:33!

[@GOFFBITZH666]

It's my favorite scene, too! 😆

[@yoursonisold8743]

I wonder how many rabbits got harmed in the production of this.

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

Probably too many :

[@johnalogue9832]

Not nearly enough.

[@pacmancdi]

The humane society was on set. Most likely none.

[@SpeedyEric1]

I've actually remember seeing most of this movie back in the early 90's on TNT's MonsterVision one night. I thought the concept of a giant bunny movie was scary back then, but I was in the 1st grade at the time. The actor playing Roy is the same actor who played Jim Jones (oh, sorry, I mean "James Johnson") in Guyana: Cult of the Damned. I love the inserts of Dr. McCoy in this review.

[@chihirok1588]

I read that as Lupas at first. The image in my head involved Lupa killing Phelous or something.

[@markiangooley]

Multiple Lupas fighting over which one gets Phelous would be more fun. They’re identical except each one’s dyed her hair differently…

[@markiangooley]

The brunette won!

[@jareththegoblinking3191]

1:55 Dammit man I'm a doctor, not a rabbit

[@philbettinger1741]

when life gives you lemons BLOW UP THE LEMONS IN LIFE'S FACE!

[@bryannacassidy1806]

Wallace and gromet did something like this . It was better.

[@MsDjessa]

Oh yeah. :'D

[@NebLleb]

Yes. Wallace & Gromit In The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a helluva lot better than this!

[@matthewmoran5297]

That and no little bunnies were harmed in "Curse Of The Were-Rabbit".

[@cousinchaos896]

bryanna cassidy yea

[@AmaryInkawult]

Matthew Moran nah not a single bunny...just Wallace.

[@BloodylocksBathory]

As a kid I saw the scene of the guy in the cabin being attacked with the woman shooting at it, and for years I had it in my head that he was attacked by a wildcat because after all, why the holy hell would someone legit be attacked by a giant rabbit? Oh well, memory solved. Also, as pleasantly surprising as it is that this movie went far enough to include mutilated bodies, but why would the giant rabbits only eat a little bit of their victims instead of all the food source like any reasonable predator?

[@Dreigonix]

“She’s on a rampage!”

[@knshinn2]

Great stuff. One reference you missed? The "Invasion Of The Moon Creatures" episode of The Goodies, in which Earth is threatened by the evil, super-intelligent...BIG BUNNY. His troops even sing the Star Trek theme!

[@GTropinin]

Linkara and AVGN uploaded their stuff today too... my subscription box looks like blip :)

[@U014B]

11:34 *_Who Would Win:_* 100 rabbit-sized horses _OR_ 1 horse-sized rabbit?

[@LchanOtakudom]

That Bugs Bunny quote... Too perfect!

[@lizzychrome7630]

This review is perfect. I love how you went 100% with it, and milked the "Shoreleave" and other references for everything.

[@CyberB07]

LOL XD After seeing this, I can't even imagine how it'd go if Phelous reviewed, oh, I don't know, "Black Sheep"??

[@iKadaj]

we were watching The Matrix yesterday and this movie was playing on the tv in the background during the part of the little kid explaining how to bend the spoon!!! i immediately thought of this review because i've never heard of the thing anywhere else lol. he was like "do not try and bend the spoon..." and i was liek "OMG THAT'S THE NIGHT OF THE LEPUS!!!"

[@megansimplystitch]

This is my favorite video by Phelous. It's so ridiculously quotable. The hyperbole & melodrama begs to be watched by many people. Or, at least, by the weirdos that I call friends. "Because Night of the Bunny wasn't scary enough. " "Died by bunny! " "Bunnies must be holed up somewhere else! " The blending of Monty Python, Bones & That Science Guy (with the unknown serum) was freaking hilarious. Excellent work! Thanks!

[@AFCoulthard]

The amount of references in this review is immense.

[@Grey_Warden_Invasion]

The creators of Wallace and Gromit didn't even go for a horror movie but still made a scarier bunny movie than this one.

[@jakebryant3445]

This isn't the only time McCoy had to face rabbits

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

Plague of Bunnies. I think "Ghostbusters" missed that as a sign of the apokalypse.

[@brunobucciaratiswife]

Bunnies are so cute. I remember when mine brought home a human leg...

[@DinosaurFan88]

You know, it would have been a lot easier if they had an arsenal of Holy Hand Grenades (that or a 24-carat gold trophies and an elephant gun).

[@supercatush]

Ah, a man of culture I see. That's the only way to kill a giant rabbit

[@Wario7793]

The scenes were giant bunnies were running around in the mine kept reminding me of the suffocation underground scenes with the dying rabbits in Watership Down. I find myself laughing, but Watership Down was a pretty grim movie.

[@avalynpoe4441]

I just want to watch a version of this movie where the Were-Rabbit shows up and kicks everybody's ass.

[@brunobucciaratiswife]

I’ve been bitten by a bunny, they have sharp teeth! Left a scar on my finger. They’re a vicious little bugger in the wild, ever seen watership down?

[@TurtleDustin]

I remember watching this movie on TNT's Monster Vision as a kid

[@omnimonramone8459]

Jimmy Carter is watching this nodding and saying,yes. They are Dangerous,they swim,they'll come for you.

[@Demonanimator]

Damn it Phelan, it's a reference, not a bad Star Trek joke.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

Rabbit to victim: "This foot isn't lucky for YOU!"

[@AsymptoteInverse]

They really will just make a slasher movie out of anything, won't they?

[@danieldb631]

Rabbits don't do horror. DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!

[@CaffeineDeprivation]

6:12 Stupid surprised truck driver XDD !

[@ferociousgumby]

The real reason this fails is that NO ONE wants anyone to hurt these fluffy, cute bunnies, and they're anniliated at the end. And that's a good thing?

[@U014B]

DeForrest Kelly avec mustache bears a striking resemblance to Nick Offerman.

[@IAmTheUnison]

6:02 Now that's a movie I'd love to see, Bugs Bunny on a killing spree! XD

[@darlingnikki1984]

"Pancakes... pancakes... pancakes!"

[@Kruhn]

They used to play that late night on TBS' predecessor WTBS. I used to call this Attack of the 50-foot Killer Bunny Rabbits

[@NodDisciple1]

Well, you weren't far off.

[@frick_____you]

As a kid, this movie scared the hell out of me. As an adult, it makes me laugh

[@christinawilkephillips7684]

only 2,956 bunnies were harmed in the making of this film...

[@floridaman4596]

Christina Phillips really?

[@phoenixstrider5836]

"With nasty, big pointy teeth" aslo fun fact, when i was younger I actually had nightmare about killer rabbits (that also included stuffed rabbits too, hey! I was like 9 lol) and I hadn't seen this until now.. also posted this before Phelous made the Monty Python refference lol called it

[@JHParee]

One thing he didn't bring up was this is based on a book called "The Year of the Angry Rabbit," which was more of a horror-comedy.

[@genedacox6317]

This makes me wonder why he hasn't reviewed 'Orca The Killer Whale' yet. There's literally a roaring killer whale out to avenge the death of his wife by killing Dumbledore who's pretending he's a fisherman on a boat called Bumpo. The Orca manages to blow up a gas station that causes the only road out of town to be blocked by a landslide. It's pure gold.

[@goommym]

Night of the Lupas

[@floridaman4596]

Ana Salazar A Dream for phelous!

[@markiangooley]

Multiple Lupas, utterly identical except for hair color, fight each other to determine who gets Phelous! The brunette wins!

[@tomboyangel78]

And yet no one made a Watership Down reference

[@NodDisciple1]

Or Bunnicula.

[@MsDjessa]

Maybe a Peruvian flute band would have worked on these too.

[@SilentHillOwn]

hey, bunnies can be fucking terrefying, just watch Watership down.

[@arminreindl7742]

I still hear the screams *shudders

[@MsDjessa]

A friend of mine actually has a phobia about rabbits and if I remember correctly she got it from that movie. So yeah, fear is very subjective.

[@sheltonbrightjr.5988]

😆😆😆 Still 1 of the funniest reviews 3 yrs later!! Pure genius!!

[@nseven1117]

as a guy who had a pet rabbit who died a while back, I'm laughing while at the same time being sad at this review

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

I remember seeing this movie in the 70's on t.v. Okay....RABBITS killed this guy's chickens. Since when do rabbits eat meat? I can't help but think of that song from Rabbit of Seville.... "OOOOhhhhh! Where do I get the WA-bit!" "Whaaat would you want with a Waaa-bit!?"

[@renamon5658]

Well i guess the humans are vegetables since rabbits and bunnies are vegetarians

[@CelticMagician]

OMG THIS MOVIE WAS REAL??? I've seen this film YEARS ago and thought it was just a horrible fever dream. ;7;

[@krissaberhagen]

But you know, from far away, much better effects than, mr. Incompitence himself,........BIRDEMIC.

[@TheBonkleFox]

Geez, Big Chungus' family is bigger than i thought it was.

[@realleon2328]

I wish this movie would be remade

[@bundleization]

Literally peak aussie horror.

[@MSTe98]

I tried to watch this movie in 7th grade, and it terrified me to the point where I couldn't finish it. Watching this review, I have to wonder what made me so scared. WATCH OUT! IT WILL KILL YOU WITH ADORABILITY (and also by mauling you)!!!

[@Tareltonlives]

I love the use of the TOS clips in this one

[@healerofthewaters6508]

7:40 Rodents of unusual sizes? I don't think they exist. INCONCEIVABLE!

[@shadowstyle1434]

Elmer Faud: Shhhhhh be vawy vawy quiet, I'm hunting Wepus. (Chuckle)

[@Shades14]

I wish I was around to help film this movie. I would have loved helping herd all those rabbits around the tiny sets.

[@omnicowdemon]

I fucking love the special effects in this movie! 😆

[@DarksideEXE]

this has to be one of the most (unintentionally) silliest horror movie ever made...yes, more than hostle.

[@smb-c3po]

Another great video, Phelan. Oh, well, at least they tried! Now review Watchmen. SyFy is showing it right now.

[@kali3665]

Damn it, McCoy! You're a Doctor, not a Bunny Killer! :-)

[@traxthetrashwizard]

I don't know what your talking about Phelous, this shit's horrifying! Rabbits are actually quite violent!

[@AmaryInkawult]

Crimson Trax you should hear them shriek. Undiluted Nightmare Fuel.

[@renamon5658]

Night of the lepus is so scary that it got a pg rated

[@DW4Ever91]

Wade Duck: The Bunny Rabbits is Coming, The Bunny Rabbits is Coming!

[@PedalPwner69]

Shouldn't that be The Bunny Rabbits "ARE" Coming?

[@DW4Ever91]

@@PedalPwner69Yes, I was hoping someone would get this reference. 😀

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

You can tell this is older due to the lack or Old Man/Wabuu

[@MsDjessa]

0:20 Actually as far as Latin pronunciation is concerned the way you said first wasn't that far of.

[@Dr.Gold-Dry-Bowser]

Eeeeeh...what's up Doc? *I laugh a lot at this part* 6:03

[@justinsarcedo9355]

Thank you. That is still funny even for a bad movie.

[@sydneyslaughter7163]

I wonder if they ever thought about reintroducing wolves into the environment. Y'know, Nature's way of keeping bunnies down. Hell, just get a dozen local dogs together and make it a fun family outing for the owners; the dog with the most dead rabbits wins!

[@dcfanboy5841]

Man Bunnies are adorable

[@tonymata8070]

You know what’s messed up? The book the movie is based on is actually a horror comedy satire, it never took itself seriously. These filmmakers took a satirical novel and made it overly serious, reminds me of what happened to Leprechaun with that shitty reboot.

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

8:48 Bugs Bunny: Hey, what's the big idea?!

[@ferociousgumby]

The Easter Bunny as horror movie villain. It's like making Santa into an evil warlord.

[@NodDisciple1]

But there's MULTIPLE films about an evil Santa!