Crew
Director – [uncredited] Jared Masters, Screenplay – [uncredited] Jared Masters & Elizabeth Rath, Music – Stevie B., Seth Metoyer, J. Riddles, La Rocca Duo, Sean Shimmer & Umbrella Jamboree. Production Company – Maraschino Film Group.
Cast
Elizabeth Rath (Bunny O’Braska), Jared Masters (Trinity Vanderbilt/Rabbit/Bellhop/Voice of Kelly Green)
Plot
Bunny O’Braska, a stripper in Las Vegas, returns to her hotel room. She answers an ad in the back of a magazine and organises a date with a Mr Bunny. Her best friend, the drag queen and prostitute Trinity Vandebilt, comes to visit. As the two girls dally, Bunny expresses hope that her date will be a rich man. At the same time, there are killings of dancers and prostitutes around the city. As they party, a murderous Easter Bunny slips into the room, intending to kill them too.
Easter Evil is an Easter horror film. There have been a growing body of these in the last few years with the likes of Serial Rabbit (2006), Easter Bunny Kill! Kill! (2006), Easter Bunny Bloodbath (2010), The Bunnyman Massacre (2011) and sequels, Easter Casket (2013), Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell (2014), Easter Sunday (2014), Easter Bunny Massacre (2021), Easter Holocaust (2020) and Easter Bloody Easter (2024), all made on low budgets.
Easter Evil is also a film that you can tell within minutes is going to be a Bad Movie. Almost the entire film is contained within a single set – a hotel room. It does briefly venture outside with one or two pickup shots and one scene in the desert, but 99% of the film remains in the hotel room. There are only two actors present – the film’s director Jared Masters and his co-writer Elizabeth Rath, although there are two other actors who are credited for very minor parts such as appearing in a tv interview or being an announcer on the radio. Certainly, there are more characters present in the film than the two actors – I’ll get to that in a minute. Masters and Rath also create the film between them, but oddly – no doubt due to embarrassment – take no acknowledgement for such on the credits.
Besides directing and co-writer, Jared Masters also plays the role of the drag queen who is Elizabeth Rath’s best friend – the majority of the film is taken up by scenes between the two of them. Masters also plays a number of other characters, including the murderous Easter Bunny; a bellhop who sneaks into the room and rifles through Elizabeth’s underwear drawer, before being killed by the Easter Bunny; and the voice of Elizabeth Rath’s knuckle-dragging boyfriend from Nebraska on the other end of the phone.
The problem with Easter Evil and what causes it to sink into awfulness is that the film consists of Elizabeth Rath and Masters’ drag queen sitting around the hotel room endlessly monologuing. There are twelve minutes before Masters arrives taken up by Elizabeth’s phone conversations with firstly the Easter Bunny, whom she believes to be a rich client, and then her ex. Then Masters arrives and things drag out.
What is worst about this is the sense that much of what is going on is not scripted but has been ad libbed between the two of them. And so we watch them as they variously party, get wasted and dance in the room. It goes on and on and on and then still keeps going with an excruciating inanity. By the point of the two of them trashed and falling and rearranging themselves around the furniture, even trying to surf on top of the bed on an ironing board, you want to scream “enough.” The murderous Easter Bunny doesn’t even turn up into well into the show – something like the 39-minute point.
Elsewhere, Jared Masters has directed other exploitation movie homages such as Climb It, Tarzan! (2011), 8 Reels of Sewage (2012), Hollywood-a-Go-Go (2012), Big Hair, Long Lashes (2017), Absolute Vow (2017), Mondo Psychedelia (2019), Roller Junkies (2022), and a number of other horror films with Slink (2013), After School Massacre (2014), Deadly Punkettes (2014), Ballet of Blood (2015), Amethyst (2016), Agalmatophilia (2018), Quartz Vein (2021), The Nightgown (2023) and Feral Female (2025).
Trailer here