Here's a gift idea for any Monty Python fans you might know (and another here). Now if only there were a Night of the Lepus life-sized plush...
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We received an outpouring of comments on our post about the massive rabbits being raised in Britain. Thanks to our loyal reader HP, however, we were able to find some disturbing footage of gigantic rabbits actually feeding.
I'm back! For anyone wondering why I've been reposting old pieces for the last few weeks, it's because my wife and I were enjoying a much-deserved holiday in South Africa. I'll stick a link to some photos shortly, but for the moment, here's some post-holiday geekery for you.
As we've seen with the last two movies featured here, there are some animals that naturally make good movie monsters.
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It is topical and relevant, honestly :)
Ah, Night of the Lepus. That movie has the distinction of being the very first movie I saw where I had the critical distance to think, "This movie is ludicrously bad and awful." I think I was about 8 years old. Prior to that, I had always viewed movies uncritically, as children do. So, Night of the Lepus is indirectly responsible for all my subsequent critical thinking skills and skepticism.
A couple of years ago, I found an .mp3 of the original radio ad for NOTL. Unlike the movie, the ad is really scary and effective -- every time I hear it, I think, "Hey, this sounds like a good movie. Oh, wait. Lepus." No wonder I was so anxious to see it as a child.
In my family it is tradition to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Christmas Day. . . it's the one movie we know we'll always agree on!