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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.
The novel was also notable as being part of a small revival of Australian science fiction in the 1960s. Its comic-horror tone was well received and a movie version was released in 1972 titled Night of the Lepus – a straight-faced monster movie that dropped the humor of the book. [1] [2] [3]
In 1972, he was cast in the horror film Night of the Lepus. After that, Kelley made occasional appearances on television and in film, but essentially went into de facto retirement, other than playing McCoy in the Star Trek film series. [39] By 1978, he was earning up to $50,000 ($241,000 today) annually from appearances at Star Trek conventions ...
Night of the Lepus: William F. Claxton: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun: United States [64] The Night Stalker: John Llewellyn Moxey: Darren McGavin, Barry Atwater, Carol Lynley: United States Television film [65] La noche de los mil gatos (Night of 1000 Cats) René Cardona Jr. Hugo Stiglitz, Anjanette Comer: Mexico aka Blood Feast ...
Lynch filmed Rabbits in a set built in the garden of his house in the Hollywood Hills. [4] [5] Filming took place at night in order to control the lighting. [5]Lynch says that filming Watts, Harring and Coffey with the set lit up by enormous lights was "a beautiful thing". [6]
Melanie Fullerton (born August 29, 1962) [1] is an actress in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She co-starred in Night of the Lepus (1972) with Stuart Whitman and in To Rome With Love (1969-1971) with John Forsythe, Vito Scotti, Joyce Menges, and Susan Neher.
Stuart Whitman (born Stuart Maxwell Whitman; February 1, 1928 – March 16, 2020), was an American actor, known for his lengthy career in film and television. Whitman was born in San Francisco and raised in New York until his family relocated to Los Angeles.
Natural horror is a subgenre of horror films that features natural forces, [1] typically in the form of animals or plants, that pose a threat to human characters.. Though killer animals in film have existed since the release of The Lost World in 1925, [2] two of the first motion pictures to garner mainstream success with a "nature run amok" premise were The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock ...