Warwick Davis’s Leprechaun ranks as one of the vital enduring cult horror icons, however of the numerous films, that are the perfect?
High of the mornin’ to you! It might not be St. Patrick’s Day, nevertheless it’s by no means a foul time to look at Leprechaun films, and we right here at Arrow within the Head determined to return over the entire Leprechaun franchise to rank them from worst to first. The Leprechaun Motion pictures Ranked record will be seen beneath – test it out and tell us how you’d rank the flicks!
LEPRECHAUN: ORIGINS (2014)
That is appalling. Director Zach Lipovsky, author Harris Wilkinson, and WWE Studios got the prospect to make a brand new Leprechaun film, they forged knowledgeable wrestler (Dylan “Hornswoggle” Postl) because the title character, after which they only churned out a boring monster film. I don’t understand how anybody concerned thought this was a good suggestion (“You know what we should do? Take everything people liked about Leprechaun and remove it!”) or how Leprechaun: Origins made it via manufacturing. The story follows Individuals backpacking via Eire and working throughout a leprechaun, who’s only a hideous creature with no persona. It’s not even enjoyable to look at this factor choose individuals off. There’s nothing attention-grabbing to be discovered on this film, though there may be some curiosity consider seeing one of the vital wrongheaded reboots ever made. Sadly, you must sacrifice a few of your time to take action. (Good factor the 90 minute working time is padded out with 12 minutes of finish credit.)
LEPRECHAUN IN THE HOOD (2000)
Round 2000, there was a surge of low-budget horror films set “in the hood”. Full Moon was in on it, and the Leprechaun franchise joined the development as effectively. Directed by Rob Spera, who obtained assist from 4 different writers in crafting the story and script, Leprechaun within the Hood has its charms. You get Ice-T as a file producer who gained success with the assistance of a flute he stole from the leprechaun. You get the leprechaun smoking weed, rapping, and mesmerizing a trio of “fly girls”. And naturally, you get him killing individuals whereas attempting to get his flute again from the rap group that has stolen it from Ice-T’s character. (Known as Mack Daddy O’Nassas as a result of he was a pimp who “owned asses”.) This one ranks decrease simply because it doesn’t really feel as enjoyable as a few of the different entries, regardless of the weed and the rapping.
LEPRECHAUN BACK 2 THA HOOD (2003)
Author/director Steven Ayromlooi needed to make a Spring Break Leprechaun film, however Lionsgate needed to ship the character Again 2 Tha Hood. Nicely, not less than this repetition is extra tolerable than going Again 2 House could be. This sequel has higher manufacturing worth than the earlier Hood entry, some cool motion moments, and enjoyable components like bullets laced with clover and a magic battle between the leprechaun and a fortune teller. On the draw back, the characters aren’t very attention-grabbing, so it bogs down every time we have now to look at them work together. We get the leprechaun hitting a bong, however he doesn’t give us one other rap sequence… which I’m certain was disappointing to followers of the primary Hood movie. This can be the final time we’ll ever see Warwick Davis starring in a Leprechaun film, which is a disgrace. He appeared to have much more Lep left in him, however they let the franchise go dormant for too lengthy.
LEPRECHAUN 4 (1996)
Leprechaun 3 director Brian Trenchard-Smith returned to direct Leprechaun 4, which isn’t on the extent of his earlier contribution to the sequence. The truth that it’s set in area isn’t the issue, it’s becoming that the Leprechaun films helped begin one of the vital amusing franchise traits. The issue is, it seems like Dennis Pratt simply wrote it as a generic Aliens knock-off after which changed the alien with the leprechaun. He lives on a random planet and is known as an alien. At the very least he’s nonetheless obsessive about wealth and energy. This film does get extremely unusual because the leprechaun wipes out a bunch of troopers and the medical workers on a spaceship, so it has that going for it. This appears to be a adore it or hate it entry: it will get too ridiculous for some viewers, whereas others take pleasure in that it’s full of jaw-dropping nonsense.
LEPRECHAUN RETURNS (2018)
The leprechaun is a special character in each Leprechaun film, all of them simply occurred to be performed by Warwick Davis. Till Leprechaun Returns, which brings again the leprechaun from the unique. Paradoxically, the primary direct sequel can be the primary sequel Davis opted to not come again for. So this returning leprechaun is performed by Linden Porco, who does a great job, it’s simply tough for anybody to return near what Davis did. Directed by Steven Kostanski, Leprechaun Returns is an entertaining sequel with an amusing, intelligent script by Suzanne Keilly – who lately wrote a enjoyable Slumber Get together Bloodbath film as effectively. The story finds the leprechaun by accident being unleashed by a gaggle of sorority women and continuing to kill them and their buddies one-by-one. Good and easy. Mark Holton reprises the function of Ozzie from the unique movie, and the heroine is the daughter of Jennifer Aniston’s character.
LEPRECHAUN (1993)
Some horror franchises begin out useless critical and slide into silliness. That’s not the case with Leprechaun. Future entries would positively be sillier, however this idea was ridiculous from the beginning. Written and directed by Mark Jones, Leprechaun is a couple of single father and his daughter shifting right into a fixer-upper house in North Dakota… and rapidly realizing there was a leprechaun trapped within the basement and a pot of gold cash the earlier proprietor introduced again from Eire (after stealing it from the leprechaun) stashed close by. The leprechaun desires his gold again, and is prepared to kill individuals in nasty methods to retrieve it. Jones tries to make moments genuinely unnerving, however whereas Warwick Davis turns in a hell of a efficiency and the leprechaun is hideous, he’s nonetheless carrying a humorous outfit, tossing out one-liners, and getting distracted as a result of he’s compelled to shine footwear. He’s additionally up towards some goofball characters, together with Pee-wee’s Huge Adenture‘s Mark Holton as a fellow named Ozzie Jones, who’s unfortunate sufficient to have swallowed one of many gold cash, and a quite annoying heroine performed by pre-Mates Jennifer Aniston.
LEPRECHAUN 3 (1995)
The thought behind Leprechaun 3, which was directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith from a script by David DuBos, was a very sensible one. You might have a horror villain who’s obsessive about accumulating riches, so what higher setting may there be for considered one of his sequels than Las Vegas? In fact, the film solely needed to funds to movie in Vegas for at some point (the interiors have been shot in Los Angeles), however Trenchard-Smith made essentially the most of it. Whereas the leprechaun causes bother for individuals who work at a on line casino, together with a horrible magician and a croupier performed by style common Caroline Williams, we additionally be taught that leprechaunism is an infectious illness when the lead (performed by John Gatins, who would go on to earn an Oscar nomination for writing Flight) begins to show right into a leprechaun himself. This was one of many higher, most well-crafted entries within the franchise. And also you get to see what a handful of leprechaun poop appears to be like like.
LEPRECHAUN 2 (1994)
Each one thousand years, a leprechaun can declare a human bride, and in Leprechaun 2 an evil leprechaun has his thoughts set on a younger lady named Bridget (Shevonne Durkin). With the assistance of his drunken uncle Morty (Sandy Baron), Bridget’s boyfriend Cody (Charlie Heath) desperately tries to avoid wasting his love from life with a leprechaun. Directed by Rodman Flender and written by Turi Meyer and Al Septién, this sequel is a step up from its predecessor. It’s fast and enjoyable, with a great humorousness and really entertaining efficiency from Baron. It additionally brings a welcome new addition to the Leprechaun mythology, saying a captured leprechaun has to grant its captor three needs. In fact, these needs don’t all the time work out for the individual making them. Warwick Davis was given higher materials to work with, together with an ideal sequence during which he and Morty have a ingesting contest. This one additionally earns factors for being set on St. Patrick’s Day.
