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While some folks may spend this weekend hunting for eggs and wearing pastel, Premiere.com will be gorging on marshmallow Peeps and celebrating some of the best movie bunnies. Here are our 10 favorite.

Donnie Darko

As if a skull-faced rabbit wasn’t creepy enough, Frank won’t stop yapping about stuff like time travel and the end of the world as we know it. Plus, we don’t know a lot of talking rabbits, but if their voices are anything like his, we’d like to keep it that way.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table encounter every imaginable obstacle in their quest for the Holy Grail, but none are quite so foul as the vicious killer rabbit of Caerbannog. The fluffy little guy reveals his nasty teeth and Arthur has no choice but to lobbeth the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch in its general direction.

Mallrats

It’s not easy being a costumed character at a mall, especially when there are two stoners lurking around with nothing better to do than beat you like a piñata full of delicious Cadbury Eggs.

Jackass: The Movie

Easter and Jackass: The Movie don’t really have a hell of a lot in common. But, when Chris Pontius slapped on some pink bunny ears and a Speedo as Bunny the Lifeguard, he became both an appetizing snack for some gators and the ugliest bunny of all time.

House Bunny

She shares the same blank stare and skimpy outfit as Bunny the Lifeguard, but rather than dangling her stuff in front of prehistoric lizards, she teaches a house full of dowdy sorority girls that everyone is fabulous on the inside.

Easter Yeggs

In this 1947 cartoon classic, Bugs Bunny encounters a rather depressive Easter Bunny, who cons Bugs into taking over egg delivery. Bugs has to contend with a hillbilly baby and one Elmer Fudd, who sees an encounter with the Easter Bunny as a convenient way to provide the main ingredient for his rabbit stew.

Night of the Lepus

Four words: Giant mutant killer rabbits. What more do you want? That this made it anywhere past even the idea stage is one of the miracles that make life worth living.

Watership Down

From Richard Adams' surprise best-seller, an animated version of the epic tale of a group of rabbits migrating from their doomed warren to... they don't know where. The unabashed intensity of the tale, and the outsize heroism and nastiness of the fluffy characters make this, um, pretty hare-raising stuff.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Okay, so Jessica Rabbit is a bunny-by-marriage only. But she of the impossible measurements, the Veronica Lake peek-a-boo bang, the sultry come hither voice did more for the species than her lispy husband ever could. After the landmark half-live-action, half-animated film's 1988 release, it became socially acceptable to lust after a cartoon character.

Harvey

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, Harvey is the quintessential man-with-an-imaginary-rabbit-friend film. In the lead role of Elwood P. Dowd, James Stewart earned himself an Oscar nomination for convincingly interacting with his 6'3" tall invisible drinking buddy. One might argue that if a night of drinking doesn't lead imaginary friend-making, you're not doing it right.