Movies with Rabbits

Have you ever noticed the recurring appearances of rabbits in movies? There's a hidden code in Hollywood that only a select few know about. While I can't reveal all its secrets here, I can tell you it begins with uncovering every movie featuring rabbits. I have a list to help you start, but you'll need to venture down the rabbit hole yourself to learn the whole truth. Are you ready to unravel the mystery?

Think about it: why rabbits, of all creatures, consistently popping up in scenes from different decades, genres, and studios? It's not a mere coincidence, nor is it a whimsical artistic choice. Some believe there is a clandestine network of producers, directors, and powerful financiers who understand the deeper symbolism these animals carry. The bunny, in their coded language, represents something far beyond a child's bedtime story, something that hints at ancient rituals, secret societies, and the subtle manipulation of our collective subconscious. One must look closely, pausing at every frame, reading between the lines of dialogue, and listening carefully to the musical cues when these elusive animals appear. Only then can you begin to decode the carefully veiled message.

You see, Hollywood is not just a machine for churning out entertainment; it is a factory of dreams, carefully designed to shape your beliefs, guide your desires, and influence the very fabric of culture. Within this grand scheme, rabbits are the threads that bind together otherwise disconnected films. Their presence is like an inside joke shared among the initiated, a subtle wink that goes unnoticed by the masses. Sometimes they surface prominently, a looming rabbit costume or a symbolic plush toy. Other times they slip by almost imperceptibly: a painting on a wall, a whispered reference in the dialogue, a quick cut to a rabbit's foot keychain. Each occurrence is a clue, a hint meant to reward those patient enough to connect the dots.

Ultimately, the question you must ask yourself is not just why rabbits appear, but who placed them there and what they intend to achieve. Is it a warning, a test of perception, or perhaps a quiet form of rebellion by the few who know the truth? Regardless of the motive, the pattern is too consistent to ignore. What you choose to do next, whether you follow the trail or dismiss it as mere paranoia, will determine whether you become part of the enlightened few who understand Hollywood's strange, rabbit-laden cryptogram. The choice, as always, is yours.

A Christmas Story (1983) - Ralphie wants a BB gun. He gets pink bunny pajamas from his aunt instead. The outfit is ridiculous and he hates it, but his family makes him wear it anyway. It's one of those childhood humiliations that sticks with you.

Alice (1988) - Jan Švankmajer's Alice in Wonderland adaptation turns the White Rabbit into a taxidermied creature that springs to life. Glassy eyes, jerky movements, genuinely unsettling. If you thought the Disney version was creepy, this one will give you actual nightmares.

Alice in Wonderland (1951) – The White Rabbit kicks off Alice's whole adventure. He's nervous, always checking his watch, worried about being "late for a very important date." Every time he shows up, Alice chases him deeper into Wonderland.

Avengers: Infinity War (2018) - Thor keeps calling Rocket "Rabbit" throughout the movie. Rocket is a raccoon. Thor doesn't know the difference, and the running joke adds some levity to an otherwise heavy film.

Bambi (1942) - Thumper is Bambi's sidekick, a young rabbit who teaches him to talk and skate on ice. He's comic relief in a movie that desperately needs it.

Christopher Robin (2018) - Rabbit from Winnie-the-Pooh shows up as his usual fussy self. He likes order, gardening, and not being interrupted. The movie is about Christopher Robin rediscovering his childhood friends, Rabbit included.

Cliffhanger (1993) – Sylvester Stallone attaches a tracking beacon to a mountain rabbit to mislead the villains. When mercenary Travers follows the signal and finds a bunny instead of stolen money, he loses his mind on the radio. That outburst lets the feds triangulate their location. The rabbit saves the day.

Donnie Darko (2001) - Frank is a guy in a terrifying rabbit mask who visits troubled teenager Donnie with cryptic warnings about the end of the world. The design is iconic. Nobody who's seen this movie forgets Frank.

Harvey (1950) - Elwood P. Dowd's best friend is Harvey, a six-foot-tall invisible rabbit. Nobody else can see Harvey, which creates problems for Elwood's family, who think he needs to be committed. The movie asks whether being "sane" is really better than being kind.

Fatal Attraction (1987) - The bunny boiler. Glenn Close's character kills the family's pet rabbit and puts it on the stove. It's brief but unforgettable, the moment the movie shifts from affair drama to something much darker.

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) - Lock, Shock, and Barrel kidnap the Easter Bunny by mistake while trying to grab Santa. Brief appearance, confused bunny, quickly corrected.

Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - Hunters at a checkpoint carry dead rabbits. When soldiers mistake them for rebels and shoot them, the discovery of the rabbits confirms a terrible mistake. Small detail, big impact.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) - Gollum catches two rabbits, which he calls "coneys," and offers them raw to Frodo. Sam insists on making stew. A small moment of normalcy in the middle of Mordor.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - Rabbits hop around the forest with the other woodland creatures. They're background characters who trust Snow White immediately. Standard Disney wildlife.

Sleeping Beauty (1959) - More forest creatures, more rabbits watching Aurora from the bushes while she sings. They don't do much except look cute.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog. Looks harmless. Decapitates multiple knights. "Run away!" remains one of the most quoted lines in comedy.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) - Roger is a cartoon rabbit framed for murder in 1940s Los Angeles. He's manic, lovable, married to Jessica, and teams up with a hard-boiled detective to clear his name. The whole movie exists because of him.

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) - A giant rabbit terrorizes a vegetable-loving village before a big competition. Wallace and Gromit are humane pest controllers who discover the monster is closer to home than expected.

Zootopia (2016) - Judy Hopps is a rabbit who becomes the first bunny cop in Zootopia. Small, determined, proves everyone wrong. The movie uses her to talk about prejudice and expectations.

Peter Rabbit (2018) - Peter Rabbit raids Mr. McGregor's garden, learns some lessons about not being a jerk, has adventures with his siblings. Based on Beatrix Potter's books.

Hop (2011) - E.B. is the Easter Bunny's son who doesn't want to take over the family business. He wants to be a drummer instead. Standard "follow your dreams" kids' movie with a rabbit protagonist.

Watership Down (1978) - Wild rabbits flee their doomed warren and search for a new home. Traumatizing for anyone who watched it as a kid thinking it was a cute animal movie. It's not. There's blood.

Rise of the Guardians (2012) - The Easter Bunny here is tall, Australian, and throws boomerangs. He's a guardian of childhood belief, protecting kids from the Boogeyman alongside Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and others.

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) - Rabbit is the uptight neighbor who gets annoyed when Pooh eats all his honey and gets stuck in his front door. He likes gardening more than visitors.

Robin Hood (1973) - Skippy is a young rabbit in Nottingham who idolizes Robin Hood. He's one of the poor villagers Robin fights to protect. Small role, big eyes.

The Secret Life of Pets (2016) - Snowball is a white rabbit who leads a gang of abandoned pets in the sewers. He's cute but unhinged, plotting revolution one minute, being adorable the next. Kevin Hart voices him.

Hoodwinked! (2005) - Boingo seems like a harmless bunny at first. He's actually the villain. The twist works because nobody suspects the cute rabbit.

The Velveteen Rabbit (2009) - A toy rabbit wants to become real through a child's love. Tearjerker territory.

Sing (2016) - Some rabbits show up during the talent show auditions. Brief, bouncy, forgettable.

Space Jam (1996) & Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) - Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny play basketball with NBA stars against aliens. Bugs is Bugs: wise-cracking, carrot-chomping, unflappable.

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) - Bean Bunny shows up briefly in the London snow. He's small, earnest, and cold.

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - A polite rabbit is part of the animal community that bands together against the farmers. He's timid but helpful.

Song of the South (1946) - Brer Rabbit outwits Brer Fox and Brer Bear in animated sequences. He's clever and quick. The movie itself is... controversial for other reasons.

Miss Potter (2006) - Peter Rabbit exists only as drawings that occasionally come to life in Beatrix Potter's imagination. The movie is about her, not him.

The Matrix (1999) - "Follow the white rabbit." Neo sees a woman at his door with a rabbit tattoo on her shoulder. No actual rabbit, but the reference to Alice in Wonderland is deliberate.

Night of the Lepus (1972) - Giant mutant rabbits attack a small town. It's a B-movie from the 70s and exactly as ridiculous as that sounds.

Jojo Rabbit (2019) - Jojo gets his nickname because he can't bring himself to kill a rabbit during a Hitler Youth exercise. His mercy marks him as different in a world demanding cruelty.

The Favourite (2018) - Queen Anne keeps seventeen rabbits in her chambers, one for each child she lost. They scamper around while courtiers scheme. The rabbits never speak but say everything.

Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo (2004) - Rabbit almost ruins Easter by being too uptight. He learns to relax. Standard Hundred Acre Wood lesson.

Rabbits (2002) by David Lynch (Short Film/Series) - People in rabbit masks sit in a living room saying cryptic things while a laugh track plays at wrong moments. It's David Lynch. Don't expect it to make sense.

Summer Wars (2009) - King Kazma is a rabbit avatar in a virtual world called OZ. He's a fighter, not a pet.

Welcome to the Space Show (2010) - Kids search for their missing pet rabbit and end up on an intergalactic adventure. The rabbit starts everything but doesn't do much after that.

Jean de Florette (1986) - A farmer raises rabbits in rural France while fighting with his neighbors over water. The rabbits are livestock, not characters.

Boundin' (2003) - A Pixar short featuring a jackalope (rabbit with antlers) who teaches a sad sheep to bounce back from adversity.

The Rescuers (1977) - Ellie Mae is a rabbit who helps Bernard and Bianca on their rescue mission. Small supporting role.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) - An Augurey appears, which has some rabbit-like features. Stretching the definition, but it counts.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny (1992) - Animated Beatrix Potter adaptation. Peter and Benjamin sneak into McGregor's garden. Classic children's fare.

Sing 2 (2021) - More bunny backup dancers in the sequel.

Run Rabbit Run (2023) - Australian psychological horror where a white rabbit keeps appearing as a symbol of guilt and repressed memory. Creepy.

The Tortoise and the Hare (1935) - Disney Silly Symphony. The hare is arrogant, loses the race, learns nothing. You know the story.

Sexy Beast (2000) - A humanoid rabbit with an Uzi stalks Ray Winstone through a nightmare sequence. Surreal and disturbing.

Cabin Fever (2002) - A giant rabbit with a bloody syringe appears briefly in a hallucination. Eli Roth being Eli Roth.

Kottentail (2007) - Low-budget horror about a man who transforms into a killer rabbit-human hybrid. Campy gore.

Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell (2014) - Giant mutant Easter Bunny attacks a town. Intentionally bad B-movie.

Bunny the Killer Thing (2015) - Finnish horror-comedy with a grotesque humanoid rabbit created by a failed experiment. Dark, crude, deliberately transgressive.

The Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) - In the "It's a Good Life" segment, a boy with godlike powers brings a cartoon rabbit to terrifying life.

Summer School (1987) - Two horror-obsessed students stage a prank involving a rabbit as part of their Texas Chainsaw Massacre tribute.

Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill! (2006) - Exploitation slasher where a killer in an Easter Bunny mask avenges a disabled teenager. The actual pet rabbit is innocent.

Us (2019) - Jordan Peele fills the underground tunnels with caged white rabbits. They're test subjects for a failed government experiment, just like the Tethered. The rabbits escape when the Tethered rise.

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) - In Hell, Bill and Ted are chased by a giant, stiff-limbed Easter Bunny that represents one of their childhood fears.

Gummo (1997) - The "Bunny Boy" wanders through a tornado-ravaged Ohio town wearing pink rabbit ears. He's the film's most haunting image.

Toy Story 4 (2019) - Bunny (voiced by Jordan Peele) is a carnival prize who fantasizes about attacking humans. His "Plush Rush" sequences are hilarious.

Mallrats (1995) - Someone beats up the mall's Easter Bunny. Kevin Smith humor.

Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) - Bridget shows up to a party in a Playboy bunny outfit only to discover the costume theme was canceled. Everyone else is in normal clothes. Classic humiliation.

Legally Blonde (2001) - Elle Woods goes to a Harvard party in a pink bunny costume after being told it was a costume party. It wasn't. She handles it better than Bridget.

The Last Mimzy (2007) - A stuffed rabbit toy turns out to be a computer from the future sent to collect DNA samples. Kids' sci-fi with a soft-toy protagonist.

Re-Animator (1985) - Herbert West tests his reanimation serum on a lab rabbit first. It comes back aggressive and wrong.

Over the Moon (2020) - The Jade Rabbit from Chinese mythology appears as a companion to the moon goddess Chang'e. Traditional folklore meets Netflix animation.

Pooka! (2018) - From the Into the Dark series. An actor takes a job wearing a giant plush suit for a toy company, and the costume starts affecting his behavior. Celtic Pooka mythology meets psychological horror.

The Great Gatsby (2013) - Rabbit's foot good luck charms appear as props in the party scenes. Period-accurate superstition.

Animal House (1978) - A woman arrives at the Delta house party in a Playboy Bunny outfit. She's overdressed for the chaos.

The House Bunny (2008) - Anna Faris plays a Playboy bunny who gets kicked out of the mansion and becomes a sorority house mother. Fish-out-of-water comedy.

The Devil Wears Prada (2006) - "Bunny" is used as an insult for assistants who are too soft to survive in fashion. Not a literal rabbit.

Showgirls (1995) - Bunny costumes appear in the background of Vegas showrooms. Entry-level performer uniforms.

Election (1999) - A student campaigns with someone in a rabbit mascot suit behind them. Standard high school political theater.