Night of the Lepus (also known as Rabbits) is a 1972 American science fiction horror film directed by William F. Claxton and produced by A.C. Lyles. Based upon Russell Braddon 's 1964 science fiction novel The Year of the Angry Rabbit , the plot concerns an infestation of mutated rabbits.

Night of the Lepus: Directed by William F. Claxton. With Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley. Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west.

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Zoologist Roy Bennett conducts an experiment to curb their population, but it gives rise to giant rabbits that terrorise the town. Find out how and where to watch "Night of the Lepus" on Netflix …

Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west. Cole Hillman's Arizona ranch is plagued with 'mongrel' rabbits, and he wants to employ an ecologically sound control method. As a favor to college benefactor Hillman, college president Elgin Clark calls in zoologist Roy Bennett to help.

Night of the Lepus was horror in name only-it looked, walked, and quacked like an old-school Western. Lyle's screenwriters Gene R. Kearney and Don Holliday threw out everything that made the book witty, clever, original, and entertaining. All that was left was killer rabbits.

Night of the Lepus is a 1972 American science fiction horror film based on the science fiction novel The Year of the Angry Rabbit (1964) by Russell Braddon and tells the story of an infestation full of giant mutated rabbits.

A 1972 American Sci-Fi Horror film produced by A. C. Lyles and directed by William F. Claxton, telling the story of how Dr. Elgin Clark (DeForest Kelley sporting an extremely orange turtleneck) helped Roy (Stuart Whitman) and Gerry (Janet Leigh) Bennett, along with rancher Cole Hillman (Rory Calhoun), to save the world – or a small town in Arizo...

When a research scientist and his wife inject a hormone into a rabbit in an attempt to exterminate the bunny population, the hare goes astray and breeds an army of "super rabbits" that terrorizes the community.