Night of the Lepus aka Rabbits (1972)

This is that giant killer Rabbits movie. Based on the 1964 novel The Year of the Angry Rabbit, which apparently has some interesting things to say about ecology, nationalism, and capitalism, Night of the Lepus on the other hand  is just a bad horror movie with cheesy special effects and weak acting. The movie was produced by A.C. Lyles, a man who spent most of his long career producing westerns for film and television, and he brought in westerns director William F. Claxton, and western actors like Stuart Whitman and  Rory Calhoun, and even set the whole thing in Arizona. Perhaps they should have all just made another western together, but if they had then we wouldn't have a monster movie featuring giant rabbits. This film might have worked had they played it for laughs, like Eight Legged Freaks did for giant spiders, but instead it tries to play it straight, and its clear that nobody involved in this film knows how to make a movie like this. Really with its premise this movie at least shouldn't be so dry and a slog to sit through.*