Easter Bunny Massacre (2021) User Reviews

A killer bunny-man is loose at a cabin-in-the-woods in England

[Wuchakk · 4/10 · 15 March 2024]

A year after graduating high school, several youths in England are invited to a vacation home by a mutual friend thought to be dead. They all show up due to guilt, along with a couple guests, but a mysterious person in a huge bunny mask starts picking 'em off one-by-one. Will anyone survive?

"Easter Bunny Massacre" (2021) is a low-budget Brit slasher with no-name actors influenced by "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer" just with a cabin-in-the-woods setting.

I saw the director's previous film and was impressed by the relative proficient filmmaking so decided to give this a shot. The technical quality is actually a slight step down, probably due to much of the flick being shot indoors (as opposed to his other one). But the cast and writing are good for the most part, except for a couple of eye-rolling cliches. The moody score creates a reverent tone, reminiscent of the song "A Deeper Kind of Slumber" from 1997.

Speaking of the tone, I appreciate how the proceedings are kept serious despite the amusing nature of the killer wearing a blood-soaked bunny mask. Yet I couldn't help wondering how the slayer was able to move around so stealthily wearing such an awkward piece. Wouldn't you have to see and hear properly to do what he does?

The female cast is quite good, highlighted by brunette Sarah T. Cohen (Janey), redhead May Kelly (Amy) and blonde Antonia Whillans (Heather).

The movie runs 1 hour, 25 minutes, and was shot in Somerset, England, which is a 3-hour drive west of London.

GRADE: C-/C.

Boring and Slow

[austinstiffler · 2/10 · 15 March 2022]

Slow, terrible acting, and the plot is a half cooked, had to watch it at 1.5x speed to find any enjoyment in the movie. The plot twist especially was lackluster and didn't really add much of anything of value to the movie. It did have somewhat decent cinematography and a decent slasher costume for a low budget horror movie.

Last Easter, I gave you a scare/kill

[kosmasp · 3/10 · 11 April 2023]

.. but the very next, you gave your memory away ... or something along those lines. It doens't always have to fit the song or pun - so no pun intended. Just go with the flow. It is a massacre anyway ... well according to one of the titles of the movie. Of course as others also have noted: you could also go with "I know what you did last summer" ... just replacing summer with Easter.

The blueprint is there - but it makes you feel that the other movie is a citizen kane - compared to this. Try not to - this movie has no chance to withstand that comparison. You could also say that there are some notions of Scream in here ... again a comparison this movie would not survive - it would be a massacre to quote the movie again.

The costume is nice, I reckon the actors look good ... and the cinematography is really not that bad ...

I know what you did last Easter

[lordzedd-3 · 1/10 · 3 May 2022]

This is so bad. Might as well call it "I Know What You Did Last Easter". Plus the way they kept cutting back to the party feels like a bad "Murder, She Wrote" mystery. Plus if they were blacked out stoned, how can they keep remembering things that happened? The blood was obvious cherry syrup. Lastly, the bunny suit was pre-blood covered at the first movie. I guess dry cleaning between takes wasn't in the budget. In fact I think it had a budget so low that even the Asylum would be ashamed of it. It's cheap, it's dumb and it's boring.

20 Positive Things About "Easter Bunny Massacre"

[scipiogarling · 3/10 · 27 November 2023]

I decided to pose myself the challenge of finding good things to say about this quality-challenged film.

1. The Obnoxious Young People Having A Drug-Fueled Bacchanal montage is mercifully brief.

2. Heather dies first, and within 10 minutes of the start. This improves the film enormously thenceforth.

3. They burn her animal-print dress. It's an example more people should follow.

4. It's nice to know that stuntmen keep themselves busy with projects like this between real jobs, giving themselves the opportunity to practice talking out loud, which clearly they need desperately.

5. When they decide to bury their friend's body and burn all the related evidence of her death, they also mark her grave with a big cross strewn with her jewelry, which is sweetly sentimental, if not conducive to covering up the murder.

6. The Luring Everyone Back to the Scene of Their Crime starts before even 13 minutes have elapsed so... points for efficiency.

7. If these characters can get into "uni" (which I think means "college") even though they are clearly 30 and shockingly dense, then this is a very hopeful movie, indeed.

8. This movie can currently be watched only as free-view, meaning there a plenty of commercials to give you a break from its effects.

9. There's an egg hunt with all of them running around finding rhyming Riddler-clues like they are the Scooby Gang. That's fun.

10. It's nice to know that if I invited a bunch of people to a country weekend to pick them off one by one, none of them will think to inquire who rented the house they are staying at. I found that very comforting.

11. You learn that you can take plus-ones to a woodsy weekend where your murder victim has invited all your co-conspirators to meet their comeuppance. AND they can bring their sparkly formal evening dresses. Who knew?

12. It's got a Rashomon sequence. And who doesn't enjoy those?

13. "I think I'd know whether or not I was a virgin, NEIL." is truly one of cinema's most authoritative comebacks.

14. It's comforting to know that no matter how unpleasant a person you are, you will still have enough friends to go on a retreat in the woods with you, and cover up your murder, if necessary.

15. They really do work the holiday theme. Lots of cute Easter decorations (that spell out MURDERER).

16. Nobody other than Heather dies for A VERY LONG TIME so you have lots of time to get to know the other characters (without suspecting any of them, because obviously not of them are smart enough to pull the whole set up off, or even spell "MURDERER").

17. If you are a fan of the Sims 4, this movie is the closest you can get to watching the in-game horror film "Midnight Massacre III", just like the Sims do.

18. Learning that if you need to pour boiling chocolate on someone's face from one story up they will just stand there and take it is very empowering for a viewer.

19. No snide joke here: there is one kill that is ... QUITE sudden and unpredictable. That was a pleasant surprise.

20. There's a gay character; that's good, that's modern. But that's A Secret That Must Be Kept; that's neither good, nor modern.

21. BONUS: I didn't even have to watch a full hour of the film to come up with 20 things!!!

I know your secrets

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 21 April 2022]

A group of high school senior go camping and party. Heather (Antonia Whillans) who is a flirt and is considered to have loose morals is the center of attention. Seems everyone has a motive to kill her. We see a person in an Easter Bunny costume stab her. Being messed up on drugs and not wanting this to interfere with their university acceptance. They cover it up. Heather is simply missing. The following Easter they all get an invite to a house where they play a game. The person in the bunny suit wants to know who killed Heather.

And yes we do find out who the killer was, but the clues are sparse. I did not know England had such lovely warm weather at Easter. Pretty girls, half interesting. Characters (except Heather) were bland.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Pretty serviceable movie... Until you see the ending

[midlightkaiser · 5/10 · 15 February 2023]

Despite what most of the other few reviews here say, this movie isn't as bad as it looks. Of course, it's a bit rough around the edges, but there's way worse stuff out there. The real problem with this is its atrocious ending. Let me stop myself from getting ahead of myself and talk about what comes first.

The premise of the movie is okay. A few friends, after being accepted into college, decide to have a small party to celebrate, which, as this is a horror movie, involves drugs and alcohol. In the aftermath, they find something terrible has happened and no one can rememeber. Nothing groundbreaking here, but sound enough.

As the film goes on, they forced to confront the reality of what has happened, and the killer appears. Most of the deaths are cool, with one being kinda funny, actually. We also get to learn a bit about the characters, though none of them are deep and the mystery itself is more interesting than any of them, since they are basically the clichê of every teenager in horror movies.

If, up until now, everything you've read does sound bad, but mediocre, you're correct. There's nothing terrible or agregious. However, that's were the ending comes in. Without giving any spoilers, there's a plot twist that's so incredbly stupid and mind-numbingly nonsensical it makes you question if the people who made this movie actually paid attention to the story, because it doesn't work at all.

In case you still want to watch, just beware about it. The plot will leave you with a bitter taste in your mouth, which is a shame, since there's some potential here, even if it isn't much. Not a bad movie, just unable to achieve a proper climax.

And they played it straight?

[bowmanblue · 4/10 · 1 February 2024]

I get it that slasher films have been around a long time now and pretty much every creepy and unsettling mask has been used by some knife-wielding psycho. So, I guess someone thought it would be clever to use an 'Easter Bunny' costume as the maniac chopping the cast up. And that might have worked, if they'd leaned into the general silliness of it all. But instead, the film-makers tried to play this one with a straight face, as if it was an outright horror.

The film begins with a gaggle of twenty-something actors trying to pass themselves off as late teens, partying round a campfire before they head off to uni. Unfortunately, they have a but more of a heavy night than they expected and when they wake up they're all covered in blood and a girl with a weird Anglo-American accent is in pieces. Naturally, they don't call the police, but instead do their best to cover up whatever 'crime' they may or may not have committed and just do their best to live their lives. Unfortunately, a year later, they're all lured to a hotel by someone who knows what they did last summer... sorry Easter. Yes, you may have heard that plot somewhere back in the late nineties.

So the film isn't funny when it could have been. It isn't original. The gore is pretty much non-existent and the film often grinds to a halt sometimes when it realises it hasn't got anything new to say and starts throwing in pointless flashbacks just to pad it out. But - possibly worst of all - is that the dialogue and acting is pretty awful. I won't blame the actors as I've seen a couple of them in other things and they're perfectly fine when given better to work with, but the script lets them down here.

Overall, this film really doesn't have anything going for it, which is a shame, as it could have been a nice, cheesy little entry into the genre, but there just isn't enough here that's original, scary, gory or just good to really recommend it.

Oh, I said it wasn't funny. I take that back. The 'killer rabbit' costume was pretty funny, but that was probably not the film-makers' intention when they designed one of the most unthreatening and unintentionally funny 'murderers' ever.

Waste of your time and money

[geddo-73233 · 1/10 · 17 September 2022]

Terrible, don't waste your time and money watching it like they wasted theirs making it.

Amateurish direction and cinematography akin to a student film at very best.

The script writing would be acceptable perhaps if it was written to be purposefully so bad that it was meant to be a comedy.

As a horror film, I had to keep turning it off over and over again; not because it was too scary but because it was so bad.

Promised myself to finish it and much like a dinner spent with terrible people and food you felt like you had wasted your evening, without gaining anything from it.

Begging you not to watch this film, it is not even funny bad, it's just meant for the bin.

Great Fun

[mhoadpt · 10/10 · 18 October 2021]

A fun film with a good story and fun suspense. I liked the music too. The final scenes were great and I liked the characters. Nice concept, I liked the twist at the end.