In Arizona, the rancher Cole Hillman (Rory Calhoun) has his lands invaded by rabbits and he asks to the college president Elgin Clark (DeForest Kelley) an ecologic alternative to poison to get rid of the rabbits. Elgin contacts the researcher Roy Bennett (Stuart Whitman) and he goes with his wife Gerry (Janet Leigh) and their daughter Amanda (Melanie Fullerton) to the ranch. Roy collects samples and uses hormones in the rabbits expecting to sterilize the rabbits. However her daughter takes one of the injected rabbits with her but Amanda accidentally lets the animal escape. Soon the animal reproduces in an abandoned mine becoming a new breed of huge carnivorous rabbits.
"Night of the Lepus" is among the silliest and most ridiculous horror movies ever made. The use of the cute animals as bloodthirsty flesh eater monsters never works. In addition, the dialogs and the situations are dumb and laughable. However it may be considered a cult classic movie in the trash genre. My vote is three.
Title (Brazil): "A Noite dos Coelhos" ("The Night of the Rabbits")
