- Directed by Spencer Snygg, Zachary Snygg
- Written by Spencer Snygg, Zachary Snygg
- Stars Jon Arthur, Peter Sullivan, Valerie Bittner, Marisol Custodio
- Run Time: 1 Hour, 23 Minutes
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK-kKG0gMNg
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
We’re going to put this in the category of so bad it was entertaining. Bad in a good way. There is a story, and gore effects, and a gigantic monster bunny that’s an abomination. But they were having fun with it which made it a fun watch. We approve.
Spoilery Synopsis
Credits roll as scary music plays over shots of Easter eggs. We cut to a wedding where a band plays. The groom’s son gives a speech, and he’s less than supportive. He storms outside and something attacks him and rips him apart.
Elsewhere, a smiling guy puts on his “No Dogs” shirt and hat then stuff socks into his pants. A man begs for bacon, but he’s not allowed because of his cholesterol. Their daughter Brenda calls and says she wants to move back in and give up acting.
A woman makes iced tea and goes out to her backyard, where she sees a Godzilla-sized bunny roaming around. She screams and runs into traffic, which goes badly. Her eye shoots out and goes into the iced tea, which her husband drinks.
At the dog-catcher’s staff meeting, Doug asks a bunch of stupid questions, which annoys the teacher. Hector wins “dog catcher of the year” and a trophy. Doug comes in second place, and he’s very jealous.
A woman finds a half-eaten carrot in her garden and then hundreds more stretching out into the woods. She follows the carrot path until the giant rabbit rips her top off, and she bounces and jiggles through the woods to escape– until the rabbit bites her head off.
Brenda’s back in town, and she won’t let her father eat bacon either. She wants money to be an artist, but he says she has to get a job. She goes to the dog-catching place, Dog Catchers In the Rye, who hires her on the spot, which does not please her.
Doug and Hector make a bet about who can catch the most. Doug takes his job very seriously; Hector would rather work at Applebee’s. After more rabbit mayhem, we cut to the mayor, who isn’t very good at his job. He’s got more sponsors for the Easter Day celebrations.
Doug shows Brenda the life-or-death drama that is dog catching. He talks about PTSD from dog catching. He’s afraid of loud noises, and she makes him cry.
A rock climber encounters the giant rabbit, and she, too, is eaten. The sheriff tells the mayor about it, even the Amish are dying. Do Amish even vote? He doesn’t care. The mayor starts blaming the murders on the Amish because “They’re evil people!” He doesn’t know what that giant, bloody egg is for, so he calls it an Easter decoration.
Dog catcher Roger gets a call; there’s a squirrel on the loose. He runs into the giant rabbit, which chases him and kicks him into the goal. Rabbit wins! The dog catchers think Roger was killed by a pack of wild dogs– or maybe it was a squirrel revolt. “Have you ever read Animal Farm?” Doug wants payback. Hector and Brenda laugh at Doug.
Brenda wears earbuds, so she doesn’t hear the monster right behind her, even when it belches up someone’s foot. The mayor gets a couple of city workers to move the big bloody egg. They do not actually ever move the egg. The mayor decides to sell a line of tools that will help against the wild animal problem, somehow.
Hector faces off against the giant rabbit, and he ends up getting impaled by his “dog catcher of the year” trophy.
Now Doug is serious about catching the wolves, squirrels, power tools, Amish, or whatever’s out there killing people. He soon catches the giant bunny eating the mailman. He runs back to the base and tells the others what he saw, and they all laugh at him.
Doug runs down the street screaming for people to listen. He finds a street preacher with a bunch of people in the audience. He manages to talk them into dispersing. “The bunny blitzkrieg is upon us!” The street preacher finally hits him with a baseball bat.
The mayor tells the press that Doug was behind all the killings. He refuses to cancel the big Easter event tomorrow (that’s what all mayors say, right?).
It’s Easter, and the whole town turns up for the big event. Doug, in a straightjacket, screams out the window that they’re all going to die. The monster shows up, and Brenda sees it first. “It’s a giant rabbit!” The mayor is the first to die, but not the last.
Brenda runs home and gets into an argument with her parents. She does take one of Dad’s guns to go rabbit hunting. She lets Doug out of jail. She dresses Doug up like a carrot, but he’s been sedated and doesn’t argue much. Brenda shoots the rabbit several times, and it goes down.
They wonder how the rabbit got so big. And there’s still that giant egg in the woods…
Commentary
Some of the gore effects are pretty good, but they are very hit and miss.
The giant rabbit is really a sight to behold. It’s the worst animation I’ve seen since Gumby was canceled. The acting is terrible, but the whole thing is obviously intentionally awful, so it got quite a few laughs from us. No one is taking this one seriously, and that’s its biggest plus.
It’s quite a spectacle.