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Leprechaun

USA 1993
produced by
Jeffrey B. Mallian, Mark Amin (executive) for Trimark
directed by Mark Jones
starring Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olandt, Mark Holton, Robert Hy Gorman, Shay Duffin, John Sanderford, John Voldstad, Pamela Mant, William Newman, David Permenter, Raymond C. Turner, Heather Kennedy, Tim Garrick
written by Mark Jones, music by Kevin Kiner, Robert J. Walsh, Leprechaun makeup by Gabriel Bartalos

Leprechaun

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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10 years ago, Dan O'Grady (Shay Duffin) captured a Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) back in Ireland, then made him give him his 100 pieces of gold he took to backwoods USA with him. But the Leprechaun tracked him down in no time. O'Grady manages to capture the Leprechaun, but a stroke put him into the hospital which he hasn't left since thn, and the gold remains hidden all the time.

Now, Tory (Jennifer Aniston), Beverly Hills brat, is supposed to move into the O'Grady house with her dad (John Sanderford), and somehow she, local hunk Nathan (Ken Olandt), smart kid Alex (Robert Hy Gorman) and slightly retarded Ozzie (Mark Holton) accidently set the Leprechaun free, and since Alex and Ozzie have since found the Leprechaun gold and hidden it somewhere else, he now goes after the four of them (dad's hospitalized early on) without mercy - but the kids make narrow escape after narrow escape (while quite a few supporting characters have to die). Tory even tries to return the gold once Alex and Ozzie have handed it over to her - but one coin is missing because Ozzie as swallowed it. Eventually, Tory tracks O'Grady down to the hospital, to discover the Leprechaun has gotten their first and taken care of him - but with his dying breath, O'Grady tells Tory what to do - a four-leaf clover ought to do the trick.

It all ends happily of course.

 

Quite successful at its time (for being a low budget slasher at least), this movie is today mostly used to make fun of pre-Friends and later rom com queen Jennifer Aniston - which is quite a bit unfair, because she does give her role just the right hint of irony, plus she looks really cute in that one, without the gloss that soon came with all her appearances. The film is a rather routine slasher though, one that's a bit undecided whether or not to go down the comedy road - thus it has a killer who's more amusing than menacing and who rides a tricycle at times, and you have chase scenes that are a little devoid of tension because of that, but in all the film is too run-of-the-mill in approach to be properly laugh-inducing, so basically it just seems to fall in between too many stools and fails to properly capture the audience - but that said, there's way worse out there.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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