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"Leprechaun" is without a doubt the worst horror movie ever made. I have seen crappy made movies in this genre before, but those were crap mostly cause of their lack of financing. This movie is crap because it does not allow the most basic element of the genre to take over…the creation of fear. I have also seen horror movies, which are all blood, but no fear. Those pictures are usually all for laughs though. "Leprechaun" presents its material from neither of these angles. It is simply not funny, not frighting, and not enjoyable. The movie is about this old Irish fart who gets liquored up and captures a leprechaun, played by Warwick Davis (Ray), steals his gold, boxes him up in a crate and has a heart attack before he can light the leprechaun on fire, killing it. 10 years later, this chick, played by the gorgeous Jennifer Aniston (TV's Friends), and her father move into the old fart's house. One of their housepainters finds the crate in the basement and lets the stupid leprechaun out. However, he is slow in the head, and of course no one believes he saw and was attacked by a leprechaun. Then this leprechaun, obviously on steroids, goes around killing people--well, two people--looking for his gold. Without his gold collection, his soul is incomplete. So, Aniston and the housepainters fight off attacks from the leprechaun for 90 minutes. This picture has the same problems as all the "Chucky" movies. Your assailant is not even waist tall, with maybe a two and half foot reach, so your solution is clear in this case…punt the f**ker. I had such a problem watching all these half rate actors and Aniston running from this little s**t of a horror movie nemesis. There were four of them even. Gang up on him. SOMETHING. PLEASE! Also, writer/director Mark Jones (Rumpelstiltskin) made this little bastard a hundred times more strong than, well, anything else in the universe. At one point, the housepainters and Aniston hide in a 3/4 ton pick up truck. Leprechaun blasts out of a nearby barn in a Tonka big wheel, rams the pickup and somehow manages to make it roll over not just once, but TWICE. WHAT?! It wasn't scary. It wasn't smart. It wasn't funny. It was simply insulting, even for a horror movie. A lot of you horror movie buffs out there may say I'm reading too much into these kinds of movies. Frankly, if you try and defend the quality of this movie to me, than you shouldn't be allowed to watch movies at all. If you think I'm being too hard on the movie "Leprechaun," then f**k you too. I am SO glad this film didn't ruin Jennifer Aniston's career. I hate everyone who MADE this movie, i.e. all those behind the camera. There are thousands of good horror movie ideas out there, and they chose the absolute lamest idea to try and make money with. And the worst part, "Leprechaun" has sprouted FIVE sequels, including "Leprechaun in Space" and "Leprechaun in Da' Hood." The franchise is actually making SOMEONE money, enough to keep making more of them. Anyone reading this, who bought a copy of "Leprechaun," I hate you too. Hate me back. I'm right, and I know it. Benn - Where's the Humanity?
This would have been an acceptable movie had it been made in 1988. It was horribly cheesy and not really violent
or scary, which were the kinds of horror movies made in the late 1980's. But since it was 1993 this is very,
very bad.
The rest of the movie sucks. Horror movies need to have everyone die in the end except for the girl who
saves the day. None of the group die, just the cops and shopkeepers and that's about it. Really crappy.
It would have been better to see Warrick Davis (Willow) playing his Ewok character instead of the Leprechaun.
That would have been scary.
Bad movie and even if you are a Jennifer Aniston fan don't watch it unless the movie is given to
you as a gift. Brian - the Naked Gun |