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Giant mutant rabbits - The
worst nightmare of a lettuce farmer. Pity they
don't actually show you any in the trailer. (Giant
rabbits, not lettuce farmers. Although frankly any
addition would be an improvement.)
Would this strangely empty
trailer actually convince anyone to watch the film?
It shows nothing of interest except a few corpses and a
scared truck driver. And that effect with the
repeating rabbit's eyes is really overdone.
There are actually some
famous people in this one! Prolific leading man
Stuart Whitman, slightly less prolific leading man Rory
Calhoun, Psycho shower victim Janet Leigh, and the
mighty DeForest Kelly - the Star Trek actor with the
most ecologically unsound name. I have no idea how
they ended up in this. I can't imagine a horror
movie featuring bunny rabbits was a popular script.
Pointless coincidence
trivia: Paul Fix, who plays the Sheriff, took the
part of the medical officer in the second pilot for Star
Trek. The medical officer in the full series was,
of course, 'Bones' McCoy - played by DeForest Kelly.
Favourite bit: When
the voice-over carefully pronounces 'mutant' as "mew-tant",
which is how it was pronounced in cheapo sci-fi classic
This Island Earth. |