La notte della lunga paura

Titolo originale: Night of the Lepus
Regia: William F. Claxton |
Anno: 1972
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Horror Fantascienza
Tag: animal attack | rabbit | dead family | giant animal | mutant animal | pantyhose | gene manipulation | child killed by animal | bloody body of child |
Cast: Stuart Whitman | Janet Leigh | Rory Calhoun | DeForest Kelley | Paul Fix | Melanie Fullerton | Chris Morrell | Chuck Hayward | Henry Willis | Francesca Jarvis | William Elliott | Bob Hardy | Richard Jacome | Inez Perez | Roy Gaintner | Evans Thornton | I. Stanford Jolley | Robert Gooden | Walter Kelley | Frank Kennedy | Don Starr | Peter O'Crotty | Jerry Dunphy | Phillip Avenetti | Russell Morrell | Donna Gelgur |

Ad Ajo City, nel sud dell'Arizona, una proliferazione incontenibile di conigli distrugge ogni tipo di vegetazione. Bisogna trovare un rimedio evitando, però, effetti collaterali che potrebbero risultare disastrosi. A tale scopo, il ricercatore Roy Bennet, aiutato dalla moglie Jerry, sperimenta il dosaggio di iniezioni a base di ormoni antifecondativi. Accade però l'imprevisto.

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The original title was "Rabbits", but Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer felt the title did not suit a horror film. D
Released three years before Monty Python e il Sacro Graal (1975), which featured, yes, a killer rabb [...] D
The cast contained two Oscar nominees: Janet Leigh and Stuart Whitman. D
Riffed by the guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988) under the RiffTrax name, Michael J. Nels [...] D
For the attack scenes, ketchup was smeared on the rabbits' faces to simulate blood. D
Deforest Kelley while portraying Doctor McCoy, had an encounter with a White Rabbit in the opening s [...] D
Lucky rabbit feet, with red paint ("blood") on the toes, were distributed as a promotion. D
Strings of popping firecrackers were superimposed over the death scene of the giant rabbits to simul [...] D
Posters and trailers for the movie did not feature any rabbits. Marketers feared that audiences woul [...] D
DeForest Kelley and Walter Kelley are not related, despite the identical spelling of their surnames. D
Janet Leigh declined to allow her two teenage daughters, Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis, to appea [...] D
In an interview with self-proclaimed and contentious film historian Tom Weaver, star Janet Leigh sai [...] D
The killer rabbit effects were created mostly by normal-sized rabbits running around on miniature se [...] D
The film was originally entitled "Night of the Lepers" and about zombie-like lepers and a mass plagu [...] D
The drive-in theater is showing another MGM film, Mafiosi di mezza tacca e una governante dritta (19 [...] D
Featured in the blockbusting Sci-fi "The Matrix" its being shown on TV when Neo visits the Oracle. D
The New York Times review of this film exemplified the general critical consensus: "No matter how ha [...] D
This was DeForest Kelley's final non-"Star Trek" film. D
In the scenes where the rabbits are ferociously "roaring", they are actually just yawning. D
The title "Lepus" is the Latin term for hare. D
A special screening was held at Rincon Valley Farmer's Market in Tuscon, Arizona on July 29, 2006 to [...] D
Paul Fix and DeForest Kelley had both previously portrayed chief medical officers of the USS Enterpr [...] D
Among the many problems that confounded the "rabbit wranglers" on this film were the fact that rabbi [...] D