Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olandt, Mark Holton

A demonic leprechaun wreaks havoc on a small North Dakota town after one of its inhabitants has the misfortune of capturing him.

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R, 91 min.

Directed by: Mark Jones

Release Date: January 8, 1993

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DVD Release Date: September 20, 1999

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  • November 17, 2009
    My local cable station looooves to run this movie all the time. I can see why, Warwick Davis is over the top in a good way, Jennifer Aniston was/is hot.
  • March 23, 2009
    Tries to make you laugh, ends up doing so for all the wrong reasons. Davis is clearly having too much fun and this is where I'm sure a lot of love for the films comes in. Aniston and her old nose provide an excellently bizarre curiosity. Not since Katherine Heigl is that Bug film...( read more) have I seen an actress with such little promise turn into a respectable star. The isolated setting is a huge mistake as it doesn't make the most of outrageous situations. Hopefully the next 5 will be better at being worse.
  • January 3, 2009
    Leprechaun: "I'll not rest till I have me gold. Curse this well that me soul shall dwell, till I find me magic that breaks me spell."

    When Dan O'Grady returns to the U.S. after stealing some Irish leprechaun's pot of gold, he thinks he can settle down and enjoy his newfound w...( read more)ealth. He thought wrong. The leprechaun followed him and O'Grady barely gets away with his life, having locked the little monster in his basement. Ten years later, J.D. and his spoiled daughter Tory move in. By accident, the leprechaun is released and almost immediately the annoying creature starts to look for his gold, not displaying any respect for human life. Warwick Davis (Willow) has an absolute blast underneath the excellent make-up, taunting his amiable costars with sinister limericks and chasing them around like Chucky on an Irish whiskey bender. Aniston is cute and personable. She and the supporting cast throw themselves wholeheartedly into the ludicrous action, fleeing from Davis as though he was the devil incarnate. Best of all is the Mark Jones script, which is remarkably tight for such a low-budget and inherently silly horror spoof.
  • December 15, 2008
    Not exactly how I remembered it. Of course Leprechaun is a bad horror flick, but sadly it's bad in the worst way. It has all the camp and unintentional comedy you'd expect of it ... but it falls flat during long periods of dead space and painful dialogue. The leprechaun is a d...( read more)ecent killer (in that cheesy way B-movie killers are), but finding a pot of gold that's in the immediate vicinity can only take so long. Thus, much of the film is just padding, and the kills are few, far between, and mostly disappointing. A clever idea? Yes - as far as twisted fairy tales go, it is. But, unfortunately, it's also one that just can't be carried for a full 90 minutes. I love bad B-horror, but I just can't bring myself to love Leprechaun.
  • April 20, 2008
    PISSED OFF FUCKING LEPRECHAUN WANTS HIS GOLD BACK. He'll give you a stroke! He'll pogo stick you to death! He'll...he'll...hm. Get shot a lot. I swear to God the good guys unload 30 shotgun shells into him, not realizing that it doesn't seem to work. Whatever; no one ever claimed...( read more) that intelligence was a hallmark of 80s horror. And this movie is a perfect example of that.
  • October 24, 2009
    not a horror movie. still its pretty funny at times and definatly entertaining to watch a leprechaun on a killing spree.
  • October 17, 2009
    Jennifer Aniston ruins it.
  • October 7, 2009
    Try as they will, try as they might, who steals me gold won't live through the night.
  • September 28, 2009
    buena pelicula un gose interesante
  • September 27, 2009
    Contains Spoilers!
    This tells the story of a man who goes into this house and hear noises in this box when he goes to this box a Leprechaun comes out he gets frightened and runs out to the woman and man who were painting.They then go into this house but they only find a rat but ...( read more)he was determined that he saw a Leprechaun.
    They thought that he was just saying it but when he swallowed one of the Leprechauns gold after that the Leprechaun starts chasing them.
    He goes to one house and says to give him his gold back he takes a car from the house and rides it down the road a police then chases him and tells him that hes too young to be out at night.The Leprechaun then claims that hes hundreds years old.The Police then tells him why don't you get out of the car the Leprechaun attacks him and the police gets frightened and runs away the Leprechaun chases him all around the woods and the police then hides.
    That man that then swallowed one of his gold the Leprechaun started going after him and the one that was with him they used weapons on him a number of times and thought he was dead but the Leprechaun kept on tricking them by pretending that he was dead.
    At the end the gang that kept on getting chased by that Leprechaun threw a match at him to kill him and then he died.
    The Leprechaun before attacked lots of people and was dangerous and was getting nasty mainlly because someone stole his gold.

    People don't seem to like this film but I do and am already looking forward in seeing the other Leprechaun movies.

    I laughed in this alot and really enjoyed it some of the parts were also jumpy for me exspecially the Leprechaun parts.

    I loved the acting it was strong throughout there wasn't much they could do to improve it in my opinion.

    The story was also good and was well twisted and had an interesting script this Leprechaun movie was so good I am now looking forward in seeing the other Leprechaun movies.

    This movie may not be flawless nor may it be masterpiece but this film was interesting enough to keep me entertained.

    Overall I really enjoyed this and will deffinitlly reccomend it.

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