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The Bunny Game

2011 film directed by Adam Rehmeier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ7720612
Source-derived summary

The Bunny Game is a 2011 American independent horror film directed by Adam Rehmeier and written by Rehmeier and Rodleen Getsic, who also stars. The film follows a drug-addicted sex worker who is abducted by a truck driver and subjected to prolonged physical and sexual abuse.

Shot in black and white on a reported budget of $13,000, the film was made with Rehmeier working as a one-person crew. Getsic drew partly on her own experience of abduction in developing her performance. In October 2011, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) refused the film a certificate for video release in the United Kingdom because of its treatment of sexualized violence.

Plot

Bunny is a prostitute with a cocaine addiction. She is shown having sex with clients, using the money to buy cocaine and walking the streets looking for more work.

She meets a truck driver identified in the credits as Hog. He asks whether she has an addiction, and she tells him that she does. When she offers him sex for money, he refuses, drugs her and takes her to the back of his truck.

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“The Bunny Game” enters the record as 2011 film directed by Adam Rehmeier. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bunny, Game and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2011-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bunny, Game and film.
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“The Bunny Game” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bunny, Game and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7720612. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from The Bunny Game” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.