#Cave Of Caerbannog

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“Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valor! For the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel, that no man yet has fought with it… and lived!”

Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)

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If you’ve ever seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, you know that this inconspicuous cave is home to things far more sinister than just bits of metal. https://bit.ly/3BIWTmy

Finding this mine is a must for all Monty Python fans. You’ll immediately recognize it as the spot where King Arthur and his “brave” knights confront the cute but killer bunny that guards the Cave of Caerbannog, which is home to the Black Beast of Arrrghhh. However, for those in the non-Monty Python world, the Cave of Caerbannog is really the abandoned Tomnadashan Mine, where gold and copper were mined.

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Legend was given a Quest by some "King Arthur of England" to go and kill the Terrifying Monster guarding a location called the Cave of Caerbannog. Legend couldn't find the monster, but he did find a cuddly white rabbit. He's not quite sure why it's bloody, but it doesn't seem injured so it's fine. (I just like to headcanon that Legend would get along with practically any bunny, including the killer rabbit from Monty Python. Uncoloured version under the cut)

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Hey guys and gals.  Here is another illustration from Dublin Comic Con 2017. This is a mash up of BloodBourne and Monty Python. This was by far the most difficulty image of them all and I owe alot of credit to my girl friend Erin.  I really love Blood Bourne and wanted to do a funny mash up with  Monty Python and something I always found myself saying when I was a pinch away from dieing, I would say ha its just a flesh wound.  It happened one to many times when playing through the game.

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Behold the cave Caerbannog!

I had to look this up because I did NOT realize that's how that was spelled haha... 🐇☠️

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Horror & Reality

Part 5/? (Read parts 1, 2, 3, 4)

In most, if not all, of Terry Gilliam's films, reality is often a horror or terror and where fantasy a literal escape of a much more idyllic life. But these perceptions can reverse or appear the reverse in an instant. In The Fisher King a derailed Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) stumbles across a homeless bum (Robin Williams) who is living in a trash heap under a NYC highway overpass with squalid conditions only to realize that Parry is pretty happy himself singing and living with his fellow "homeward bounds". But in a moment Parry’s world shifts to on of horror when he sees an illusion of a medieval "Red Knight” coming to attack him. His newfound friends come to his rescue and ward off the villainous treachery and maintain his fantasy/horror/reality.

An even more brilliant visual and otherworldly scene is in Doctor Parnassus when Valentina (Lily Cole) and her hopeful suitor Tony (Colin Farrell) are blissfully punting in their gondola under a beautiful sunny sky. The mirror of the scene reflected in the water. The boat rocks port to starboard, further and deeper until it seems to capsize but instead the scene reverses from idyllic sunlight to dark and ominous nighttime with foreboding clouds and sky and at the same time the camera and picture spins on the screen 180 degrees, flips upside down and twists from beauty to horror.

In The Brothers Grimm, Mr. Gilliam has a double twist on this Horror/Reality duality. While we see the depiction of a 19th century fantasy world it is a word that is a reality for its inhabitants. With Gilliam this fantastical reality is manipulated first by the protagonists Wilheim (Matt Damon) and Jakob (Heath Ledger) Grimm who, as traveling con artists set up a small German town to believe they are haunted by a witch that is the creation of the Brothers—all to turn a dollar. They find their scam amusing as well as profitable. We, as viewers through the "fourth wall". find humor in a kind of Schadenfreude moment. The second twist is when the Brothers are subjected to solving another curse—this time one they haven't set up. And so our enjoyment of Wilheim and Jakob becomes heightened because of their predicament. At the same time our perspective changes from the omniscient audience to the prickliness of the "real" horror.

His talents and facility with this duality can be turned on it's head to humor Horror/Reality. Going back to his first feature Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the oft-quoted but rarely duplicated scene of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog. To hilarious effect King Arthur and his men attempt to enter the cave of Caerbannog must defeat a small, cute White furry rabbit. As anyone who’s seen the film knows the rabbit turns back the force by decapitating and terrorizing the men who "run away" and declare "That rabbit is dynamite!"

The upcoming and penultimate part is about Reality & Illusion.

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Rabbit of Caerbannog

by Hope Doe Sumi and Watercolor on Arches watercolor paper

The killer rabbit sleeps with the bones of it’s victims. Though it is tasked to protect the cave, it relishes in each and every kill in it’s fluffy cute nature.

Recently watched Monty Python’s Holy Grail and couldn’t help myself.

Done for the Month of Fear Challenge, ‘Monsters Unseen’

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Episode 6 and part of 7

1. "You shall find your partners by following the smell of liquor." *Aggrieved sigh as I think about all the times Lan WangJi brings Wei WuXian liquor.*

1.33 How old are they supposed to be again? Mid teens? How does he have so much alcohol tolerance so young?

1.66 "May we never forget what is worth remembering or remember what is worth forgetting." *that's me, crying in the distance*

2. Lan QiRen's thought process- Wei WuXian? That good for nothing? Had a good thought? Hmm... He's CangSe SanRen's kid? *Angry* hmm. He got Lan WangJi drunk!? He is a demon!

3. WangJi insisting on punishment even though he didn't drink willingly is big queer vibe. Destructive guilt over things you can't control? Big oof.

4. Love the way Jiang Cheng and Wei WuXian work together to get soup. Heartwarming siblings to nourish my soul... For now...

5. Why is Wei WuXian so intense about his mother? Has no one told him stories about her? He has to beg for scraps from near strangers? This is bringing up a lot of questions for me.

6. *kicks shoe into the water*

7. Love the way they put the explanation about the headband 20 whole minutes before Lan WangJi ties his around Wei WuXian. The showmakers were really went "only spouses can touch the headband. Before you forget that fact, here, they're tied together with it. They're married now."

7.11 What are the bunnies eating? How are they surviving the cave? (Also it would be fuckin hilarious if the yin iron infected a rabbit and that's where the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog came from)

8. Genuinely incredible that Lan WangJi has enough self restraint not to murder Wei WuXian on the spot when he falls on him. That is a murder stare.

8.23 When did he put the headband back on?

9. Is "did you experience anything strange [when you were together overnight]) code for "did you have sex yet?"

10. Jiang Cheng is so jealous that Lan WangJi is getting his brother's attention (exactly like that one post.)

11. Arts and crafts day!

11.4 Nie HuaiSang's villian origin story is his lantern burning down (not really lmao but that's a funny thought.)

11.7 The. Look. I refuse to believe that he did not fall in love at that moment.

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Wow, I was in Scotland a few months ago. Too bad we didn’t see it, we were around there. Maybe another time.

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“What manner of man are you that can summon up fire without flint or tinder?” “I am an enchanter.”

Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)

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Monty Python and the Firey Emblem

*A sinister looking cavern mouth comes into view before our heroes. Bones of all sorts are scattered before the entrance.*

Robin: Behold the cave of Caerbannog! Home to the dark beast!

Marth, drawing his sword: Right! Keep me covered.

Chrom, looking around: What with?

Marth: W- … just keep me covered.

*DRAMATIC CHORD!*

Robin: Too late!

*the group ducks down behind some rocks to stay out of view of the monster, but all that emerges from the cave is a lone Pichu*

Marth: What?

Robin, whispering: (There he is!)

Marth: Where?

Robin: (There!)

Marth: What, behind the pichu?

Robin: (It is the pichu.)

*pause*

Marth: … You silly sod!

Robin: What?

Marth: You got us all worked up!

Robin: Hey, that’s no ordinary pichu!

Marth, sarcasticly: OhhhHHHhh.

Robin: That’s the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!

Roy: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared!

Robin: Look, that rat’s got a vicious streak a mile wide! It’s a killer!

Chrom: Get stuffed!

Robin: He’ll do you up a treat, mate.

Chrom: Oh, yeah?

Roy: You mangy mage git!

Robin: I’m warning you!

Roy: What’s he do, nibble your bum?

Robin: He’s got huge, sharp … uh … He can leap about! Look at the bones!

Marth: Go on, Ike. Chop his head off!

Ike: Right! Silly little bugger. One rat stew comin’ right up!

*Ike draws his sword and marches out of the hiding spot towards the pichu. He prepares to strike when suddenly …*

Robin: Look!

Pichu: SQUEEK! SQUEE!

Ike: AAAAAUGGH!!

*Pichu suddenly flings itself square into Ike’s neck, biting into it and cleaving his head clean off his shoulders!*

*DRAMATIC CHORD!*

Other fighters, holding each other: AAAAAHH!!

*Ike’s body drops to the ground, neck spraying blood everywhere*

Marth: Jesus Christ!

Robin: I warned you!

Roy: … I’ve done it again!

Robin: I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn’t you? Oh, “it’s just a harmless little pichu”, isn’t it? Well, it’s always the same. I always tell them-

Marth: Oh, shut up!

Robin: Do they listen to me?

Marth: Right! EVERYONE!!

Robin: Oh, no…

Everyone: CHAAAAARGE!!

*Suddenly an entire army of Fire Emblem characters runs onto the field, weapons drawn and ready to slay the pichu. However …*

Pichu: SQUEEK! SQUEAK! SQUEE! SQUEE!

*The pichu flies from fighter to fighter, goring each one in a spectacular manner before moving on to the next one. Eventually only four of the main Smashers are left.*

Marth: Run away! RUN AWAY!

*The other fighters join in the chorus of “RUN AWAY!” as they flee the scene. Robin laughs his ass off at the display of hubric comeuppence.*

Robin: OH HO HO HA HA!!

*The fighters regroup in the hiding spot.*

Marth: Right. How many Mains did we lose?

Lucina: Corrin.

Roy: Lyn.

Marth: And Ike. That’s five.

Chrom: Three, sir!

Marth: Three! Three. And we’d better not risk another frontal assault. That pichu’s dynamite!

Roy: … would it help to confuse it if we run away more?

Marth: Oh, shut up and go and change your armor.

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A Loch back at a Zygon Era

Hello friends! I've had quite the week! Monday was my birthday, so my boyfriend and I took a road trip around Scotland. We saw lots of things from the Beatrix Potter Garden in Birnam, to the Cave of Caerbannog from Monty Python, to the Devil's Pulpit in Dumgoyne. But our main destination was Loch Ness! We settled into our hotel by watching "Terror of the Zygons," which seemed appropriate considering our surroundings. Naturally, I decided to review it here. Before I do, however, I would like to thank all of you who have been liking and reblogging my stuff lately. It means a lot to know I'm connecting with people. Thank you for your support!

On the surface, "Terror of the Zygons," appears to be just like any other serial of its era. However, if you do a bit of digging, you'll discover that there are some interesting facts about its production. Did you know that there was a sort of "real-world," tie in with the story? No, I don't mean Nessie. Think closer to Mickey Mouse. In 1975, Tom Baker played the Doctor for the August "Disney Time," bank holiday special. After introducing several clips from Disney films, he is called away by the Brigadier to the events of Terror of the Zygons. I can't help but wish this information was known to me before writing my Doctor Who and Disney article! You can watch the clips on youtube. They feature Tom being suitably bizarre.

Along with having an unusual prequel, the story also had a deleted scene from the beginning which was later colourised by YouTuber "babelcolour," for the DVD release. This edited version is the one I rewatched for today's review. The scene begins with the TARDIS materialising invisibly. The Doctor walks out from nothingness, wearing a matching tartan tam and scarf, replacing his usual fedora and scarf. Not far behind are Sarah Jane and Harry Sullivan wearing said hat and scarf respectively. There's something rather humorous about the Doctor using his companions as human hat racks. Considering Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart's name, it seems appropriate that the Doctor is sporting the Royal Stewart tartan. I can't help but wonder if the costume department did this on purpose. After rematerialising the TARDIS to "fix," it back to it's usual broken police box state, the three continue their journey to answer the Brigadier's Disney Time summons. It seems an oil rig off the coast of Scotland has crashed into the sea just shortly after having lost radio contact.

After hitching a ride from the eccentric Duke of Forgill, the three meet up with a kilted Brigadier in a small Scottish inn where the landlord, Angus, plays bagpipes ad nauseam. They're really driving the Scottish shit home, which makes sense when you consider they filmed the episode in Sussex. Also gathered at the inn are Sergeant Benton, various UNIT soldiers, and a man from the oil company named Huckle. The Duke has some curt words with Huckle, informing him that any crewmen found on his land will be shot. After leaving in a huff, we see one of these crewmen wash ashore, seemingly alive. Over the past month, three different rigs have all met their demise. The gang splits up Scooby-Doo style. Dr Harry goes off to check on the injured crewmen, while Sarah stays behind to get the scoop from the locals. And the Doctor goes off to be the Doctor.

Back at the inn, Sarah mentions the odd nature of the Duke to Angus who promptly defends the duke as a good man. However, even he has to admit that the Duke has been acting strangely since the oil companies came. After letting go most of his servants, the only real bit of interaction he's had lately was gifting the inn with a goofy looking stag head. Nowadays the Duke keeps mostly to himself at Forgill Castle. The surrounding area of Tulloch Moor seems steeped in mystery. People go missing as the mist comes in, Angus tells Sarah as they're being spied upon from a distance. Eavesdropping in on the conversation over a veiny, bio-mechanical screen, an unknown figure watches from the shadows.

While driving alone, Harry spots the washed-up man from the rig and jumps out to help him. Believing him to be yet another trespasser, a beardy fellow by the name of Caber shoots the survivor and wings Harry across his brow, rendering him unconscious. Back in the bio-mechanical ship, alien villains twist and caress a fleshy panel in the weirdest form of nipple play ever seen on Doctor Who, causing the destruction of another oil rig near Ben Nevis. While trying to decipher the signal that has been jamming the oil rigs' radios, the Doctor learns of Harry's brush with death.

After checking on Harry, the Doctor goes out to inspect the oil rig wreckage where he discovers strange holes in the foundation. After taking a cast of the holes with plaster of Paris, the cast reveals what looks like the shape of an impossibly large sharp tooth. During a call with the Doctor, Sarah is attacked by the previously seen alien hand, which belongs to none other than a fearsome Zygon! I've always loved their design, especially in this scene. Something about the shape of its mouth is particularly disturbing. I was slightly disappointed about the redesign from the new series. I'm a big fan of the Zygon cat nose. I almost named one of my cats Zygon due to his dark orange fur and similar nose shape, but my partner at the time vetoed that idea. I named him Rory instead.

After discovering both Harry and Sarah missing, the Doctor discovers Sarah in a decompression room for divers, the door slightly ajar. I was annoyed by the fact that the Doctor fell for such an obvious trap, but it also led to an intriguing sequence. Harry's nurse, Sister Lamont, closes the heavy door behind the Doctor and seals it shut for decompression. Running out of air, the Doctor hypnotises Sarah and enters into a trance to conserve air. I'm a big fan of any time the Doctor acts like a bit of a mystic. I'm a meditator myself, so it's cool to see the Doctor tap into the innate powers of thought control. One of the side effects of certain meditations is a slowing of breathing. It was nice that the scene doesn't overly explain this. It allows Tom the chance to really play up his weird alien charm as his eyes roll back and he howls toward the ceiling. Moments like these are why I love Tom Baker so much. He's not afraid of being utterly bizarre.

It's around this time we begin to learn a little about the Zygons. Having taken Harry to their ship, their leader, Broton, tells him a bit about their history. After they crash-landed centuries ago they awaited rescue while subsiding on the lactic fluid of their giant Nessie-like cyborg pet known as the Skarasen. That's correct, you did not misread that- they feed off of cyborg breast milk. Only with a show like Doctor Who can you get a sentence like that. You've kind of got to love that. After discovering their planet was destroyed by a cosmic event, they redirected their efforts toward getting their suckers on Earth. The Skarasen is to be the form of Earth's destructor, as no human weapon could hope to penetrate its augmented skin. In order to move their plan into motion, the Zygons gas the village, knocking the Brigadier and the UNIT soldiers out cold, thus allowing them to move in secret. Luckily for the Doctor and Sarah, Sergeant Benton was on the lookout for them where he saves them from death by asphyxiation.

After coming to, Huckle gives the Doctor a bio-emitter that attracts the Skarasen, which he found among the wreckage of the rig. Having bugged the inn, the Zygons reveal to Harry that they use the psychic imprint of humans in order to mimic their form. He sees the likes of Sister Lamont, Caber, and the Duke, stored in hibernation chambers, maintaining a link to their Zygon counterparts. They use Harry's form to slip back to the inn where they may fetch the emitter. But he is intercepted by Sarah who is concerned by his odd behaviour. She chases him into a barn where they scuffle in a manner that had me weirdly thinking of “Super Vixens.” Russ Meyer's Doctor Who is not something I ever expected to imagine. After a bit of trouble, Zygon Harry falls from a hayloft onto his own pitchfork, killing him instantly and revealing himself to Sarah as a Zygon. However, the crafty Zygons completely evaporate his remains to hide any evidence. I wondered why they didn't just do the same thing to the emitter in the first place, but I guess the answer is "it doesn't do that." Ok, sure, whatever. Now free from his psychic link with the Zygon, Harry is able to sneak about on their ship unabated.

After realising the Zygons were working from the shadows, the Doctor assumes they must have bugged the inn somewhere, so the lads go about searching the place from top to bottom. I love Angus' indignant response to the idea that his inn might have actual bugs. Angus Lennie's performance as Angus is a true highlight in the story. Afraid of the humans discovering that the goofy stag head must be the bug, the Zygons decide to send the Skarasen to rid themselves of these tiresome humans. After figuring out the secret of the emitter, the Doctor draws the Skarasen away from the village only to find it has fused itself to his hand. But Harry's meddling with the ship's systems allows the Doctor the ability to toss the emitter in the path of the Skarasen, destroying it in the process. 

The Doctor and friends meet up and go to Forgill Castle to ask permission to drop depth charges into Loch Ness, the source of the signal. Their hope is to draw the Zygons out. Meanwhile, the Sister Lamont Zygon goes to fetch the stag head and fights with Angus in the process, killing him. It's a sad ending for one of the more likeable characters, but it's also kind of wonderful in its simplicity. I never quite understood why the Zygons needed to turn people into electric balls of something I might pull out of my hairbrush, as they did in "The Zygon Invasion." If anything, I much prefer the updates they received in Mark Morris' "The Bodysnatchers." Using venom from their suckers matches their physiology far better than superpowers. Morris really fleshed out the Zygons in a way I wish the show would. Seeing them in their initial incarnation using brute force seems far more practical to me. I think sometimes, more is less.

After discovering a way into the Zygon ship, they save Harry, but the Zygons flee with the Doctor still onboard. The Doctor gets a wonderful opportunity to match wits with Broton in a speech that includes my all-time favourite Fourth Doctor line- "You can't rule the world in hiding. You've got to come out on to the balcony sometimes and wave a tentacle." Evidently, that line was ad-libbed by Tom Baker, only further solidifying my love for the man. He makes a good point though, the Zygons have mostly been working from the shadows, in secret. The Zygons fly away, masking their trail from UNIT, still hiding. I must admit, it's not abundantly clear what their plan actually is. Sure they intend to use the Skarasen against earth's weapons, but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of explanation as to how the oil rigs play into everything. There's mention of turning the Earth into something more habitable for Zygons, but I'm honestly not sure. I asked my boyfriend what his impression was, and he couldn't quite figure it out either.

There's a lot of what happens at this point in the story that seems like happenstance. The UNIT crew and Sarah end up going to London, which also happens to be where the Zygons have set their next target. They plan to swim the Skarasen up the Thames to wreak havoc on Westminster Abbey. In my review for "Castrovalva," I mentioned how the Fourth Doctor's super-heroics were oftentimes overstated, and what comes next is nothing shy of extraordinary. After rigging some ventricle type wiring from within his cell, the Doctor uses his own body to complete the circuit, allowing UNIT to see past the Zygon's scramblers and pinpoint their location. I loved that it was Benton that did this, by the way. This was twice in one story where Benton got to play hero. They pinpoint the ship's location to be a disused quarry, which made me ugly cackle. Classic Doctor Who used quarries so often to make up an alien planet, that the idea of them saying "This actually is a quarry," seemed almost cheeky. Broton, thinking the Doctor has died, uses his Duke disguise once more to go plant another emitter in Westminster. After releasing the human captives aboard the Zygon ship, the Doctor sounds an alarm and sets off the self destruct killing the remaining Zygons onboard. Yay, murder!

The UNIT soldiers dispatch Broton after a fumbling fight scene between him, Harry, and Sarah. All the while, the Skarasen is working its way up the Thames. It's a brilliant little bit of puppetry mixed with stop motion animation that I found completely charming. Even if it does look a bit naff, it's effective enough to be a suitable set piece to end such an episode. It's very much within the tone of the story to have the Loch Ness monster stomping through London. The Doctor manages to trace the emitter and toss it into the open jaws of the Skarasen. It nom nom noms the emitter into nothingness, causing it to lose all interest in the Abbey. The Doctor casually supposes that it will most likely return to its home of Loch Ness. I loved that the show kept the Loch Ness mystery intact. After all is said and done, "Nessie," may still be out there. It wouldn't have felt right killing off a beloved cryptid that brings so much wonder to many. Such feelings of wonder are what Doctor Who thrives upon. Sadly, while we got to keep Nessie, we say goodbye to some regulars. This marks the last regular appearance of both the Brigadier and Harry. With the Doctor no longer relegated to the Earth, UNIT begins to play a much smaller role in the story. And Harry, now back in London, hasn't a lot of need to continue travelling with the Doctor. It's an almost unceremonious end of an era for Doctor Who.

All in all, I really enjoyed this story. While I feel like it somewhat falls apart in the final act, the mystery and intrigue in the first few episodes really draw you in. Even my boyfriend, who is a casual fan, was drawn in by the atmosphere. You can see the beginnings of what was to become the more horror-themed stories such as "The Talons of Weng-Chiang," or "The Horror of Fang Rock." The Zygons are, for me at least, a classic baddie. They may not be as popular or iconic as the Daleks or Cybermen, but I think they work as their own kind of threat. Bringing them back has also proven to be successful. The Big Finish audio "The Zygon Who Fell to Earth," is well worth a listen. There's a lot of care put into this story that I think makes it stand out from others. Geoffrey Burgon's beautifully haunting music was a nice change of pace from Dudley Simpson's usual work. The track "A Landing in Scotland," is particularly memorable. The Zygon ship interior being organic was a unique touch that we rarely see in Doctor Who, save for maybe "The Claws of Axos," and the model work was also pretty damn charming. Having recently been to both Loch Ness and Ben Nevis, it really added something to the experience as well. There is a surprisingly low amount of episodes that take place in Scotland, which is unfortunate. If there's anything this trip has taught me, is that Scotland has a lot to offer. There are so many peaks and valleys covered with lush greenery and deep dark waters. It's easy to imagine that somewhere, something is lurking down below. Hats off to Robert Banks Stewart and Robert Holmes for seeing this potential, and turning out something magical.

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What the dear old Anon that asked about Caerbanog was suggesting, I think it was about a rare species of bunny in a place like the Everfree Forest. It seems that this bunny was the guard of a treasure and anyone that approached his cave, was killed and eaten by him. We are lucky that there is only one reported sighting of that species and don't leave it's cave. ((Yes, a little sinopsis of what the Rabbit of Caerbannog did in Monty Python))

“Oh my! I-I’m surprised I’ve never heard of such a thing. I-it’s probably just a myth…right?”

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Easter Evil: 10 Movies With Bunnies Gone Bad

The Easter weekend obviously has its religious meaning but to the more secular among us, it’s really more about marking the beginning of Spring, sunnier weather, warmer temperatures and longer days. Sure, you could get outside more, but seriously, why not just do what you always do and stay inside to watch a movie?

But there are no scary Easter movies, you say. We beg to differ. Easter-approriate movies are out there beyond The Greatest Story Ever Told and Easter Parade, you need only look as far as the 10 scary rabbits and evil bunnies below.

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

Let’s start off with something tame, Nick Park’s classic stop-motion animation duo who take a walk on the wild side with this outing that’s part Wolfman, part The Fly, and full of the characteristic British charm of the renowned Aardman Animation studio. When Wallace’s own mad science turns him into a vegetable hungry were-rabbit, Gromit must protect his human companion from the hunter Lord Quartermaine, who’s trying to bag the were-rabbit to impress Lady Tottington. It’s not exactly a scary movie, but like any good horror, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit offers sympathy for the monster, and is a reminder that short cuts to achieve difficult goals – like losing weight by eating more veggies – can have some unintended consequences.

  The Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

There’s nothing in the hat. – Uncle Walt’s magic trick is not exactly what you expect in Joe Dante’s portion of the 1983 anthology film based on the classic Twilight Zone series created by Rod Serling. Borrowing from the series’ well-known Nightmare as a Child episode, Dante’s outing sees the affable Helen drawn into a family home where everything’s off kilter. Little does Helen know that this is not young Anthony’s real family, but surrogates he forcefully recruited after killing his own family with his near infinite, God-like powers. As the coup de grace after dinner, Uncle Walt pulls a rabbit from the hat. But not just any old fluffy bunny, he pulls out a zany, Looney Tunes-esque stop-motion concoction from hell. It scares poor Helen enough to make Anthony start thinking that maybe he’s gone too far…

  Fatal Attraction (1987)

Such flagrant bunny abuse will not be ignored. Fatal Attraction is about a successful New York lawyer named Dan who decides to celebrate having the house to himself for the weekend by having an affair. Unfortunately for him, the object of his limited desire was Alex, who can’t accept that Dan was in it for a good time, and not a long time. As part of an escalating series of violent outbursts, Alex targets Dan’s family, and in one of the film’s most memorable scenes, Dan’s wife Beth comes home to find a boiling pot on the stove. As Beth cautious approaches the pot we see her daughter Ellen run up to the coupe that houses her beloved rabbit. As Ellen cries to Dan that her bunny is missing, Beth takes the lid off the pot and finds *ahem* rabbit stew. Hollywood lore suggests a real dead rabbit was used in the scene, but it’s worth noting that aside from Alex in the film’s finale, the bunny is the only casualty in Fatal Attraction.

  Watership Down (1978)

While not scary in a conventional sense, try not and be disturbed by this animated adaption of the classic Richard Adams novel. The story follows a group of rabbits that try to find a new home for themselves when the seer, Fiver, has a vision of their warren in the English countryside suffering an apocalypse. The rabbits’ quest to find a new sanctuary forces them to go through cats, dogs, hawks, hunters, farmers, death traps, and even other more vicious rabbits, which all adds up to something that looks like Disney version of the Donner Party. Heck, there’s even a rabbit Grim Reaper that appears to our heroes at a couple of key points in the film, including the end when leader Hazel, (voiced by John Hurt by the way), is ushered into the rabbit afterlife. Try not thinking about that when you take the kids to see Peter Rabbit!

  Donnie Darko (2001)

This would not be a complete list of scary rabbits without the most famous imaginary “leporidae” sidekick since Harvey. Or is Frank imaginary? Filled with signs and portents, weird science and teenage angst, a likely imaginary man named Frank in an ill-formed black rabbit costume isn’t the weirdest thing in Donnie Darko. The vision of Frank not only gives Donnie a warning about the end of the world (sort of), but he bolsters in Donnie a new found attitude about exploring the mysteries of time, and casting off the latent hypocrisies of 1980s suburbia. Was Frank ever real? It’s an interesting question, for he might have been a manifestation of Donnie’s new found ability to see through time, or an alter that allowed Donnie to overcome his own shyness. On the other hand, maybe Donnie had a thing for messed up looking rabbit people.

  Sexy Beast (2000)

Some people like hunting rabbits, but in Sexy Beast the rabbit hunts you. Well, sort of. In what might be described as Elmer Fudd’s worst nightmare, ex-convict Gary Dove, played by Ray Winstone, has a vision of a demonic rabbit man riding up to him on horseback, dismounting, and pointing a machine gun at him while he eats a nice meal. It’s like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly with a long-eared Grinch carrying an uzi, and while Ben Kingsley gets all due credit for his truly intimidating (and profanity-laden) performance as a London gangster, try and shake the image of that creepy looking rabbit with a killer instinct.

  The Witch (2015)

When if comes to evil animals in Robert Eggers’ “conventional” (according to him) horror movie, The Witch, a lot of people focus on the goat Black Phillip, but what about the black hare? Young Caleb spots the bunny while out on an early morning hunt with his big sister Thomasin and he chases it even after the horse throws Thomasin off. When Caleb gets lost alone in the woods, he stumbles on a hovel and a young woman that lures him to come inside, which seems like the 17th century equivalent of eating Tide pods, an obvious danger, and you should probably know better, but you just can’t help yourself. But whose fault is it really that Caleb became prey to a witch? The black rabbit, of course!

  Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

While Monty Python is not exactly synonymous with horror, it’s hard to find a rabbit scene more gory then the one in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The titular quest leads Arthur and his knights to a cave guarded by the Rabbit of Caerbannog. Despite the somewhat vague but emphatic warnings by Tim the Enchanter, the Round Table knights are thoroughly unimpressed with their latest challenge, at least until Sir Bors is attacked and decapitated. The Rabbit of Caerbannog proves himself more than a match for the knights, and only the “Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch” is able to deal with the rabbit permanently. There’s a lesson here about not underestimating your opponent. There’s also a lesson that bunnies are bloodsuckers and killers, but that seems to get overlooked.

  Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill! (2006)

There is a small, but surprising subgenre of slasher movies about people in bunny suits, but one of the better ones is Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill! It is of a Rob Zombie mold, about hideous low lives who get their proper comeuppance and the one delivering it here is a killer in a bunny mask. It’s highly violent, highly disturbing, and will likely shade every future experience you have with contractors and power tools, but it does have a delightful twist in the end, not to mention a delightfully twisted ending. Not all killers in rabbit costumes are made in the same vein, but if you’re looking for a low-budget horror delight to counteract all those typically bright and cheerful Easter feelings, this is your remedy.

  Night of the Lepus (1972)

A forgotten classic in the science creates big animals horror subgenre, but one that’s fascinating if for nothing else then being about giant mutant rabbits overrunning a small ranching town. In fact, Night of the Lepus makes a nice bookend with Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit because they’re both about using science to find a humane way to reduce the rabbit population, but they’re also about that process going horribly wrong. If you can’t buy the ludicrous concept, that’s fine because the pre-CG effects do nothing to help the suspension of disbelief. The effect of the over running horde of giant rabbits is achieved through a combination of close-ups, miniatures, green screen, and yes, humans in rabbit costumes. Unbelievable? Certainly! A terribly good time on an Easter weekend? Absolutely!

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The reclusive Wolpertinger

The Wolpertinger is related to the scottish Haggis, the swedish Skvader, and the american Jackalope. The most common Wolpertinger is one that looks like a mix of Hare with small antlers of a deer and the wings of a woodchuck. Many Wolpertingers also show impressive canines that are, you guess it, used to impress partners. As many animals there are, as many variants of Wolpertingers exist. Duckbilled, with the head of a cat and owl eyes, others with the tail of a cock and the frontpaws also that of a chicken. Wolpertingers adapt to their environment. So up in the mountains you most likely find an amalgam of animals that change to a white colour in the winter, with thick plummage and fur, and the characteristics of  animals that areadapted to the rough climate. Water dwelling Wolpertinger seem to be very rare, or maybe just rarely seen. Wolpertinger who prefer forested areas are spotted often. Squirrel tails,wings of forest birds(often double tailed with bird tails) and similiar hibernation habits as squirrels are their characteristics. But there is also the talk of Wolpertingers living in caves, and while nowadays these are quite small, their ancestors are thought to have reached the size of cave bears. Pray that these are extinct, because even nowadays Wolpertingers are known for their ferocious, omnivorous appetite and easily enraged temper if they feel threatened without a way out. The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog was most likely a rare dwarfsized mutation of a flightless cave Wolpertinger.

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Our second stop on our #atlasobscura should be easily recognised to any Monty Python fans out there. Why it’s none other than the Tomnadashan Mines, otherwise known as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog! We reached this destination at much personal peril gentle reader! After ten or so miles down a narrow backroad, we found the gates conveniently marked with a bunny. We trekked a quarter mile up a wet grassy hillside peppered with sharp rocks! At one point, I even succumbed to the treacherous path as I fell front first into the grass. Arm aching and lungs gasping, we finally found our destination, where some creative fans had left behind little Easter eggs (pun intended) for future fans! https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tomnadashan-mine https://www.instagram.com/p/B0011WwJcC6/?igshid=51clz19m4mql