The best part is, it all starts with the cryptic (to the slightly uneducated) title. For those of you who don't already know, "lepus" is the Latin genus term for rabbit. Yes, friends, this is a film about rabbits. Not just any rabbits, mind you: radiation-mutated, gigantic, carnivorous rabbits that travel in murderous herds. The plot, if you could call it that, is roughly as follows:

The locals of a southern Texas town start to react to the rather sudden surge in ravaged livestock and homesteads in the area. Soon, the culprit is revealed: rabbits slightly larger than great danes which have decided this night to exact their revenge for being radioactively mutated on this backwoods berg. It isn't long before the thousands of rabbits and hares become a full blown natural disaster, blocking off such escape routes as highways, military installations, and common sense. Naturally, a select group of heroes-on-the-spot come up with a plan to deal with the lepus threat and end up saving themselves, their town, and the day.

Now, aside from the incredibly ridiculous premise, there's a lot to like about how horrible this film truly is. First of all, the shots of these giant rabbits in action is simply hilarious and strangely hypnotic: slo-mo stock footage of cute lil' bunnies hopping around in about 1/12 scale models of homes and gas stations and such. These scenes are underscored with "scary" music and strange sounds that sound like slowed down chewing (this is the sound that these tremendous bunnies apparently make). When the bunnies are expected to actually attack horses, cows, and people, the special effects are something on the order of some PA throwing a carpet with ears at the startled subject, and screaming/whinnying/mooing abounds as fake blood flies everywhere; cut to slo-mo of "evil" bunnies hopping around. As you can imagine, a rather half-hearted, ill-educated moral about nuclear testing/war rounds out the end as a sort of tag-on moral, as if this piece of schlock actually needed one.

This is another great element, by the way. The editing is among the most atrocious ever. Other than goofing simple match-on-action shots and making the action sequences utterly unintelligible, a typical segment goes something like this: shot of attractive woman in fear--cut to--good ol' boy laying down the plan of action, usually holding a shotgun and uttering cheesy dialogue--cut to--slo-mo of menacing bunnies--cut to--repetitive shot of characters you don't care about trying to avoid the lepus threat--cut back to--the bunnies. This, along with poorly scripted radio reports, creates the sense that this mass of unstoppable, mutant rabbits are advancing like the tides, yet the few actual incidents of carnage that the viewer actually encounters shatter the illusion.

The movie is worth a viewing just for the carpet-looking rabbits. And it's especially worth it to see the slo-mo sequences with otherwise perfectly adorable rabbits hopping around in scale model buildings, set to a creepy score and sound effects.