#easter horror

And that's a totally reasonable argument if you believe the Easter Bunny is a literal bunny. But this is just a lookalike situation, kinda like how the hummingbird moth isn't actually a bird.

"But it has four limbs and it's covered in fur!" I assume you just shouted at your screen, but here's where you've been led astray. Those stalks atop its head aren't actually ears. They're a pair of specialized limbs used to distract prey.

The "hairs" covering its body are sensory structures known as setae. The Easter Bunny is a 6 limbed insect that lays its eggs via oviposition once it has found a suitable nest.

Sightings of Easter Bunnies, 1990s-2000s. While popular western mythology has adopted a singular “Easter Bunny” as a childrens’ holiday mascot akin to Santa Claus, actual Easter Bunnies are in fact a diverse species of “house demons” regarded as pests in most realms (cosmically, humans are considered unimaginably vile for celebrating Easter Bunnies alongside their gods).

Foul-smelling, disease-carrying, and devoid of language, Easter Bunnies lay colorful eggs annually which they leave as “gifts,” seeking to gain an invitation into a host home. But once invited into your home, it is very difficult to get an Easter Bunny to leave. They may present as givers, but make no mistake, they are there to take: At night they rifle through your belongings, taking small odd things here and there to decorate an underground nest they spend most of the year building out of trash and their thick, paste-like bile. Easter Bunnies are filthy and mischievous demons; they are able to walk among us mostly just slightly out of quantum phase, imperceptible to the human eye, which allows them to watch you at night when you don’t realize it. They particularly enjoy watching humans in times of quiet privacy: showering, using the toilet, dressing, and especially masturbating. They are notorious panty-sniffers, and nothing attracts Easter Bunnies more than dirty underwear left out for them to smell and steal.

Easter Bunnies lay eggs filled with quantotropic matter which can assume the form of simple baubles or candies that would be pleasing to whoever opens the egg. This is a trick to win over children and gain invitation to homes. In other realms Easter Bunnies are often vicious and considered dangerous, but here in the human world their methods have been so effective that they rarely ever attack, as long as they’re left to do their business. After being exterminated from planet after planet, realm after realm, Easter Bunnies finally found a perfect ecosystem balance here on earth: We love their eggs, and they love smelling our panties.

So with their season of emergence upon us once again, remember: That shadow you could have sworn just moved in the corner of an empty room; that rattling you hear at night; that closet door left open that you could have sworn you closed; that pair of underwear you can’t find; that strange feeling that someone is watching you while you’re on the toilet… that’s an Easter Bunny.

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NOTE: This alternate reality horror story is part of my NightmAIres narrative art series. NightmAIres are windows into other worlds and alternate histories, conceived/written by me and visualized with synthography and Photoshop.

Horror Movies for Easter:

Atrocious (2010)

Bad Friday (2017) short film

Barf Bunny (2021)

Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell (2014)

The Being (1983)

Bunnicula, the Vampire Rabbit (1982)

The Bunny (2023) short film

Bunny Boy (2010) short film

Bunnyman (2011)

The Bunny Man (2021)

The Bunny Man (2022) short film

The Bunny Man (2023)

The Bunny Man (2024)

Bunnyman: Grindhouse Edition (2019)

Bunnyman Massacre (2014)

The Bunny Man Runs (2025) short film

Bunny Man Slaughter (2024)

The Bunnyman: The Sleepy Ridge Murders (2009)

Bunnyman Vengeance (2017)

Bunny the Killer Thing (2011) short film

Bunny the Killer Thing (2015)

Brutal Jesus and the House of Wasted Youth (2010)

Celia (1989)

Cold Prey (2006)

Cottontail (2017)

Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)

Cute Little Buggers (2017)

Dead Saturday (2016) short film

Dead Snow (2009)

Diseaster (2011) short film

Donnie Darko (2001)

Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (2001)

Easter Bloody Easter (2024)

Easter Bunny Bloodbath (2010)

Easter Bunny Bloodbath 2: No More Tears (2020)

Easter Bunny From Hell! (1985) short film

Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill! (2006)

Easter Bunny Massacre (2021)

Easter Bunny Massacre: The Bloody Trail (2022)

Easter Casket (2013)

Easter Eggs (2024) short film

The Easter Egg Thief (2023) short film

Easter Evil (2024)

Easter Holocaust (2020)

Easter Massacre (2019) short film

Easter Nightmare (2016)

Easter Sunday (2014)

The Easter Sunday Massacre (2024) short film

Family Dinner (2023) (Screambox exclusive)

Fear No Evil (1981)

Feaster Sunday (2020)

Fist of Jesus (2012) short film

The Forever Dead (2007)

Good Friday (2023) short film

happy easter.avi (2015) short film

Happy Horror Days (2020)

Holidays (2016)

The Horror Seasons (2005)

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (2001)

Kottentail (2007)

Lisa (1990)

The Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special (2002) short film

A Luchagore Easter (2016) short film

The Night Before Easter (2014)

Nightmare at Bunnyman Bridge (2010) short film

Nightmare Beach (1989)

Night of the Lepus (1972)

On the Third Day (1983)

Ostermontag (1991) (CONTENT WARNING--this film is fairly notorious for a reason)

Peter Rottentail (2004)

Pink Rabbit (2022)

Resurrected (2023)

Resurrection (1999)

The Rites of May (1976)

Rottentail (2019)

Serial Rabbit (2005)

Serial Rabbit 3: Splitting Hares (2009)

Serial Rabbit V: The Epic Hunt (2017)

Serial Rabbit 7 (2023)

Spacemen, Go-Go Girls and the Great Easter Hunt (2006) short film

Stepfather 3 (1992)

Ted Bunny (2026)

Us (2019)

Vampire's Embrace (1991)

The egg hunt has been rescheduled.