In Night of the Lepus, man doesn’t conquer the wilderness as he did in the great American western, what he does go however, is survive the wilderness and try to manipulate it in order to serve him.
As laughable and as silly the film seems, Night of the Lepus – that eco-horror cult favorite about giant killer rabbits terrorizing a small south western town – does something rather profound and thought provoking from the get-go.
and into a warren, so begins the nightmare of giant rabbits terrorizing this small south western town.