Kottentail

After two ditsy girls free an experimental bunny from a scientist's lab, it bites a lonely German immigrant who in turn turns into a man-sized killer bunny rabbit. It's up to five nubile vixens to save the day.

Very purposely cheesy & younger-in-cheek, this film charmed me from the get go. I enjoyed most of the gags and actually found myself caring about what happened next. So if you're ever in the mood for a cheesy Easter-themed horror film with killer bunnies and comic book transitions than this is one of the best of those movies. And most definitely one of the standout titles in the Catacomb box-set

Eye Candy: Patricia Bellemore and Noel Francomano show T&A, Heather Darling & Zoe Hunter Lee both get topless.

Kottentail is a low-budget horror that is intentionally very cheezy. Many of the scene transitions are accomplished with a video effect that makes the screen look like a comic book complete with caption. The rabbit at the testing facility is a stuffed bunny rabbit, not a real stuffed rabbit even, but a cutesy one. It moves by a string or by the camera cutting away. Poking further fun at that is the fact that they said the rabbit freaked out at the sight of a stuffed rabbit, an even cutesier one. There's a security guard with an inked-on beard. Several characters have phony accents. At least one person plays two roles.

The film takes place around Easter, so if you're looking for an Easter holiday horror movie, this is one of the few.

Most of the women are large-breasted and show a lot of cleavage, dressing down to their underwear on several occasions. One shot of nudity appears to have been taken from another movie, though there is a pre-shower scene where the nudity isn't a double. Oddly, one sex scene has the woman dressed in a white terrycloth robe.

Well, as the movie starts out with a toy bunny that is supposed to pass for a real bunny, being prodded with an electrical prod and being pulled around on a string, then you know exactly what kind of movie you are in for. I mean, it was so fake that it couldn't even fool a blind man.

"Kottentail" is through and through fully low budget, and the movie makers do not try to hide it. In fact, they utilize it to the point where it becomes a spoof and the whole absurdity and extremity of it all actually makes it fun to watch.

The characters are right in tune with the rest of the movie, caricatures, over-the-top, often speaking with awfully phony accents, and delivering bad dialogue. But again, it works in tune with the atmosphere of the movie.

Even the effects are as to be expected. For example, the ears that Hans grew, it was LARP elven plastic ears put on his real ears. Yes, it was as clear as day. Especially because they didn't even apply Foundation or anything to match the actors real skin tone. And the sound that Kottentail made, it was just hilarious.

While "Kottentail" will not be a movie that appeals to the mass audience, it is still a fun spoofy movie that is so outrageously bad that it is just sheer fun to witness. I enjoyed it for what it was.

As a closing statement, then I will say that "Kottentail" is the type of movie that you watch once and never again. It just doesn't have enough meat on it to sustain multiple viewings.

Okay first off the effects are purposely cheesy. An obviously stuffed bunny rabbit on a visible string is used as a prop. This is totally a comedy, and has virtually no real horror elements whatsoever. Thats not why i'm giving it a less then stellar review though, as I knew I was getting a campy micro budget film. For one thing, although the movie does offer some skin, and scantily clad women, it's not nearly enough. There are certain situations in the film, where much more should have been revealed. The women are lovely, and this had way too many cut away scenes. Ultimately the one thing this has going for it, is the ladies are very likable, and talented, and I got a few chuckles out of there performances. Unfortunately they were too few, and far between.

While doing extensive testing on rabbits, a scientist finds that the accidentally-released rabbit from her lab has turned a local farmer into a deformed half-man/half-rabbit killer and must team up with a group of sorority sisters doing their local hazing to stop it from continuing its rampage.

This one had some really nice moments in it. One of the main assets to the film is it's uber-cheesy and incredibly fake atmosphere where nothing that happens in here is ever played for realism. This isn't a movie that needs to be taken seriously and is quite easy to make of, as the effects are quite fake from the plush rabbit obviously being pulled around on strings or using a form of quick-cut editing to make it move around to the killer creature, the cheap-looking sets and the comic-book style editing structure to jump around to different areas throughout the town, there's an energy and momentum carried throughout by it doesn't really make it a boring film to sit through, and that's one of the film's greatest assets. The plot is ridiculous, the situations fair better by not that much, and it's an enjoyable experience for it. This really does give it some uniquely comical scenes and lines as well, another big plus. With the way the action is set up, it has a couple of little suspense scenes built into this one, from the first attack on the tenet checking on a peeper, him taking out the bullies on the playground and the fun surprise attack on the cops in the woods investigating one of the earlier deaths which are rather fun. A strong massacre on the workers setting up for an Easter Egg hunt makes for a nice scene, and the ambush on the sorority house features some fun with the creature appearing behind the unbelieving member which is an overused cliché but it works in the scene and sets up the final chase through the sorority house. The last assault on the creature is it's best parts as the dwindled group is forced to defeat the creature on its home ground and it results in some nice action scenes. The conclusion in the barn is really good, providing some suspense and a great twist with the creature to end it on a good note. Along with some nice low-budget gore, these here are the film's good parts. There isn't much wrong with it, but what is can really be traced to the fake that the film is just cheesy and not to be taken seriously. The effects aren't hidden that they're fake, and the fact that it's not that hard to do so may be a turn-off to those who want their films to be taken seriously. The creature does look pretty ridiculous and really looks nothing like a rabbit except for the ears, and whenever it's on-screen it doesn't inspire any terror. The fact that it actually hops around like a rabbit just inspires uncontrolled laughter rather than abject terror in the killer entity, but it blends in with the fact that film is a cheese-fest and doesn't really try to be serious. The film isn't bad, but if you can't stand the cheese, this will be a chore to get through as the low-budget nature of the film does hinder this due to the cheap feel and sound throughout here. That ends up lowering this more than anything as these here become the film's biggest problems.

Rated UN/R: Graphic Language, Nudity, Graphic Violence and a mild, clothed sex scene.