Sometimes, the bunny eats you.
Chocolate Easter bunnies are delicious, and, as an added bonus, they don't put up a fight when you devour them from the ears down. For a change of pace, the rabbits in Night of the Lepus have a taste for flesh. They're also gigantic, thanks some experimental birth-control that doesn't quite work the way scientists intended. I remember seeing this on some late-night "classic horror movie" channel as a kid and thinking it had to be a joke. The obviously normal-sized rabbits had just been crammed into miniature sets, which somehow just made them cuter, like they were playing in dollhouses. That the movie seemed so serious about this leporine danger just made the whole thing funnier.

Sometimes, the killer bunny gets a laugh on purpose.
If you like your homicidal bunnies to be intentionally funny, visit (or revisit!) Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The killer rabbit of Caerbannog has a vicious streak a mile wide, as any firebug wizard will tell you. Plus, God makes an appearance and there's the whole Holy Grail quest, so your spiritual bases are covered.

But if you like your bunnies on the creepy side...
Then there's Donnie Darko. There are complex themes of free will and destiny, sacrifice, sin, and God's plans.. some of which are explained in the movie and much of which writer/director Richard Kelly has spoken or written about, and which you could spend almost as much time interpreting as the Bible. The bottom line here is: there are a lot of rabbits in this movie. Most notably, there's creepy Frank, a song by Echo & the Bunnymen, bunny toys, a VW Rabbit, and so on. In the director's cut, there's also a scene where Donnie's class is discussing the novel, Watership Down.

Speaking of which...
The movie version of Watership Down, like the novel, is surprisingly realistic. Yes, one of the bunnies is psychic, and they have a complex origin mythology. But the story is also a rather harrowing one about survival, and not all of the fluffy cuties make it. Despite the animation, this one isn't really for kids.

Worst Easter egg hunt ever.
With a PG-13 rating, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom might be more family-friendly fare. Yeah, a guy gets his heart ripped out, but I saw it when I was a little kid and I'm totally fine and do not to this day cover my chest when meeting new people. Anyway, some village children are being forced to look for the egg-shaped Sankara Stones, as evil cultists wait to snatch them away. Who hasn't had an Easter egg hunt go down almost exactly like that? Except the stones are replaced by actual eggs, and the evil cultists are replaced by evil children who steal the hard-won treats out of your basket. You know what? Show those kids Watership Down.

It's not always about bunnies and kids.
Two brothers try to resurrect their restaurant careers with a big blowout meal -- a "last supper", if you will -- in Big Night. They've been promised some help from a competing restaurateur, but he betrays them. He's not exactly a Judas here, and his intentions aren't to ruin them, but the end result is still the failure of the brothers' restaurant. They finish by silently sharing a meal of eggs.

Speaking of betrayal, last meals, eggs, and oh, resurrections, too...
The Easter holiday has ties to pagan celebrations of fertility, and who's more fertile than the egg-laying queen of the Alien movie franchise? Deliberately and horrifically sexual, the aliens are springtime fecundity run amok. But the Easter significance doesn't end there: There's Ash's deadly betrayal in the first, Burke's in the second, Kane's last supper before his death, Ripley's self-sacrifice for the greater good in the third movie, and her resurrection (for better or for worse) in the fourth. It just might inspire you to ditch the pastel dyes and color your eggs alien-style.

What movie does your family watch every Easter? Let us know below, and the awful Peanuts special doesn't count.