For today's entrant in our "13 Bunnies of Halloween" list for 2023 we're sticking with one of cinema's greatest rabbit representations -- the crazed maniac horror-show that is 1978's animated adaptation of English author Richard Adams' 1972 book Watership Down. Telling the apocalyptic tale of a fluffle of bunnies -- and yes the word for a group of bunnies is a "fluffle" and how fucking adorbs is that? -- traversing dangerous countryside trying to make a new home for themselves (and getting summarily torn to shreds for so doing), this is one of those movies made specifically to give kids nightmares... meaning this is my kinda movie. Weirdly I only saw it for the first time six years ago! Of course I came right here and did a post devoted to its horrors though -- see that here -- because this kind of toony terror gets us positively giddy. There's no bouncing back from this one!
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That book traumatized me, so there is no way I'm ever watching this.
God, I love this movie (and book). Saw it when I was a kid, read the book in junior high, own the Criterion blu-ray
My favorite part of the book (don't remember if it was retained in the movie) was where one of the rabbits in Cowslip's warren declaims modern poetry and that's how Fiver realizes the warren is a deathtrap. I kind of liked the poem actually.
I saw this movie so many times when I was a kid. I think about it every time I see a bunny (or a squirrel or other varmit) crossing the road or whenever I see a lone tree on a hill somewhere. I live in the country, so I literally think about it every day.
I saw this in the theaters when I was very young and it was the first time I had seen death in this way. We didn't see Bambi's mother die. But the rabbit that got caught in the wire snare, the blood, shocked me and gave me a huge appreciation for animal life. This movie taught me to look with courage and I was a stronger kid as a result.
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