{"id":14193,"date":"2014-12-13T09:33:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T22:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=14193"},"modified":"2014-12-13T09:38:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T22:38:26","slug":"the-coming-of-peter-cottonhell-may-spoil-your-easter-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/13\/the-coming-of-peter-cottonhell-may-spoil-your-easter-break\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming of Peter Cottonhell May Spoil Your Easter Break"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the dark days of 1972, Night of the Lepus<\/em> (US; dir. William F. Claxton<\/a>) tried to envisage a bunny apocalypse in which hordes of large mutated rabbits re-enact Hitchcock’s The Birds<\/em>,\u00a0 to lesser effect. It’s a bit of a cult classic these days, though still not overly convincing.<\/p>\n

Now we are privileged to have front-row seats for the new bunny apocalypse, where there may be only one bunny but it’s bigger, bloodier and even less convincing.<\/p>\n

\"Beaster-Day-ARTWORK\"<\/a>Yes, it’s a Easter-Day horror comedy about a giant mutated rabbit who fortuitously decides to schedule his blood-soaked rampage for Easter — which is good, as no one knows how to get through a holiday without having a thematic horror movie to vege out to.<\/p>\n

Called Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell<\/strong> (US-2014; dir. Snygg Brothers<\/span><\/a>), the film boasts pretty good poster art, a press release that emphasises gore and the sad plight faced by naked models (see Dread Central<\/a> for details), and very dubious SFX. If you have any doubts about whether you’d want to see it or not, check out the trailer:<\/p>\n