Horror Movie Review: Bad Bunny (2025)

What is Easter without bunny rabbits, eh? Especially bad ones?

Bad Bunny, also known as Bunny Killer and Bugs the Bunny Killer, according to IMDB, comes from writer and director Chuck Morrongiello. It stars Karolina Morrongiello as Sara, a grief-stricken widow who has moved to a cabin in the woods to try and deal with the loss of her husband. Unbeknownst to her, there’s a killer on the loose and it hops.

What a confused film Bad Bunny is. It opens with a redneck framer getting a bit too personal with one of his pet rabbits. It’s all heavily implied, but it’s the kind of opening that makes you think what you’re about to watch is going to very silly. Especially as I guess this intro is there to give us an explanation for the killer rabbit, which takes on the form of a humanoid monstrosity. The product of a union between man and rabbit. Eww.

It’s absurd, and that’s before you consider the look of the rabbit (it’s quite a good costume) and the fact that it likes to use carrots as a weapon. All of this has the makeup of a low-budget, tongue-in-cheek, gorefest that is best enjoyed with some beers and popcorn.

Except Bad Bunny plays it all quite straight and makes Sara’s emotional journey a focal point and her experience with the killer bunny a harrowing one. Talk about not knowing what the tone of your film is.

I distinctly remember thinking, about three quarters of the way through, that if I had to listen to Sara scream, cry, and beg for help for a minute longer, I was going to turn off the film. It was all just getting too much, and the film had lost the fun factor of a giant mutant rabbit on a murderous rampage. This isn’t the fault of Karolina Morrongiello, who I think is pretty good as the heart-broken Sara, but the fault of the writing which simply doesn’t know what it wants to be. It also doesn’t help that a lot of this ends up feeling like padding.

Yet, even with the wild tone shifts, I don’t actually think Bad Bunny is a bad film, and that’s a surprise seeing Chuck Morrongiello is responsible for one of my most hated ‘Amityville’ films, Amityville: Mt. Misery Road. Here, he shows talent and how to make every single penny of a nothing budget count. The film looks decent, effects and all, and while I don’t think any of the kills stands out, there’s plenty that utilise practical effects in stylish fashion.

Alas, it all comes back to the tone and how wrong the decision was to make this such a serious film. You have a mutant homicidal humanoid bunny seemingly born from a redneck and his pet rabbit running around stabbing people in the eyes with carrots. How on earth is so much of the film focused on Sara and her trauma? None of which actually ever feels earned. It’s beyond frustrating as an over-the-top gorefest that leans into slapstick and puns could have been great.

In the end, all anyone will remember about Bad Bunny is what could have been instead of what was.