'A group of Finnish and British people get stuck at a cabin when they are attacked by a creature that is a half human, half rabbit.'
Given my love of holiday horror films, it was only a matter of time before I finally watched a bunny slasher film. No, it's not the rascally little rabbit being slashed, it's a big bunny doing the gutting and killing. I first posted about the unique horror genre back in 2017, (Down the Rabbit Hole) but at the tie, hadn't really seen any films featuring any bunny butchery.
Gareth Lawrence
I corrected that this year by watching the 2015 Finnish film, Bunny the Killer Thing. Written by Joonas Makkonen and Miika J. Norvanto, and directed by Makkonen, the film is as much camp as it is horror, mixing comedy and horror in an over the top flick with the psycho slasher being half man and half big ugly bunny. The film was first screened at the Marché du Film in Cannes in May 2015, and released to cinemas in Finland on 6 November 2015.
The film begins when a man and a woman arrive at what is supposed to be their vacation home. The man, Mr. McRain, is taken aback when he discovers the front door is unlocked. They're quickly greeted by a masked intruder with a shotgun. Although they try to run, they are tased by more masked men. As the woman convulses on the floor, one of the intruders blows her head off.
Yes, although the premise and execution are silly, there is a lot of violence and blood, and no one dies without a really messy ending. Mr.McRain, (actor Gareth Lawrence) is stripped down to his tighty whites and tied down to a table. He's then injected with a large needle, that within minutes turns him into the half bunny, half man hybrid who then begins his spree of slashing and slicing all he encounters.
One of the Killer Thing's most memorable killings is of the cute, but soon to be sliced up Tuomas, played by actor and filmmaker Hiski Hämäläinen. Tuomas spends his last few minutes running from the big bunny in his undies, and as a last minute attempt to save his life, yanks off his sweaty undies and throws them at the randy rabbit. Although the bunny takes a second to sniff, he's hot on Tuomas' tail.
Now, poor Tuomas has one of the most over the top and painful deaths in the film, but not at the paws of the Killer Thing. Standing naked in the middle of the road, he's hit by a cop car, slamming onto the car's front windshield. If that wasn't painful enough, Tuomas's penis somehow ends up going through the windshield and is lobbed off, swinging back and forth as the two police offers scream.
It's clearly a prosthetic penis, but it was a somewhat creative way to kill off a character. I included the video below and although silly, be warned, it is rather graphic. My biggest issue with the film was another scene, this one near the end, featuring another actor and a prosthetic penis. The scene depicts a male hostage, breaking lose and swing around his long penis to knock out the bad guys. The scene might have been funny if they had not used the one black actor in the cast in bit rooted in a racial trope.
If anything you see or read has you wanting to check out the film, it is available to watch free on Daily Motion HERE:
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