15 Most Unlikely Horror Movie Villains

There’s a reason the word rabbit doesn’t appear in the title of William F. Claxton’s 1972 animal horror Night of the Lepus and that’s because making fluffy little bunny rabbits seem scary is a nigh-on impossible task. In fact, some might say it’s a hare-brained endeavour. Sorry, I’ll show myself out.

It may have helped if the movie’s leporine life-takers were kitted out with vampire teeth or something but they’re just your average, cute domestic rabbit – the kind you’d name Flopsy and give to your kid.

The only thing that separates these crazed killers from run-of-the-mill rabbits is some vaguely believable backstory involving an experiment to curb rabbit reproduction gone wrong which results in the normally lettuce-loving hoppers developing a taste for human flesh.

What this actually translates to in a B-movie like Night of the Lepus is a load of regular-sized bunny rabbits running amok on miniature-sized sets with ketchup blood smeared on their chops in a bid to make them look threatening. Which works about as well as you’d expect it too.