Killer rabbits, bunny boilers and the holy hand grenade of Antioch: Easter bunny movies – ranked!

From Watership Down and Fatal Attraction to Bambi and Python’s Holy Grail, rabbits are an unlikely constant in film – and often with sinister intentions. Here are the 20 best leporine movie moments The mighty Alan Bleasdale wrote this razor-sharp farce set on New Year’s Eve in Liverpool, where rival Catholic and Protestant militants have accidentally booked the same venue. One of the acts going horribly wrong is Elvis Costello as a stage musician who says: “I’m a bit worried about me rabbit.” With reason, as it turns out. A cheating husband (Michael Douglas) finds there are strings attached to extramarital rumpy-pumpy when his spurned lover (Glenn Close) leaves his daughter’s pet rabbit simmering on the stove. The term bunny boiler was promptly added to the dictionary. In 1705, Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) would rather play with her 17 rabbits than make political decisions in Yorgos Lanthimos’s historical comedy-drama. It’s when we learn these are surrogates for her dead children that we start thinking of her as not just tyrannical, but tragic. “Attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way!” Beware of bunnies, especially when their chops are smea