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Here I am with the second half of the Leprechaun franchise. I feel this is the half where the filmmakers really stopped caring, because this is where things got really absurd, and in the case of the last two movies kind of offensive.

Looking back at these movies I’m really curious if the makers really did stop caring and made these movies terrible on purpose just because they could. Or were they hoping that it would be so bad people would think that they’re actually good? Or maybe in their minds they were legitimately trying to make good movies but just did really bad jobs.

That last thought reminds me of this article I read on Cracked.com about a guy who spent some time working at the Asylum, a movie studio known for their mockbusters, low-budget knockoffs of blockbuster movies as well as most of the stuff they show on the SyFy Channel. In that article the guy said that despite the quality of work they’re known to put out, the Asylum is known for rejecting movie pitches that are intentionally campy or bad because despite the quality of the work they’re known for they are really trying to make good movies—they’re just really bad at it.

Leprechaun 4: In Space

Sometime in the future, a squad of space marines made up of “Books” Malloy, Sticks, Delores Costello, Danny O’Grady, Mooch, Kowalski, Lucky, and led by Master Sergeant “Metal Head” Hooker have been dispatched to the planet Ithacon on a search and destroy mission to kill the Leprechaun who they think is an alien and who has been disrupting galactic mining operations causing their company to lose millions of dollars.

In a cave on Ithacon’s surface, the Leprechaun is attempting to woo Zarina, an alien princess from the planet Dominia, in an attempt to marry her and ascend her planet’s throne as king and gain possession of her family’s fortune. Zarina agrees to marry the Leprechaun when he presents some of his treasure to her, however, both parties secretly intend to murder the other so that they may enjoy their riches unimpeded.

The marines along with their ship’s biologist, Dr. Tina Reeves land on the planet, and split up to search the cave for the Leprechaun. While searching the cave, Lucky finds a stash of the Leprechaun’s treasure and attempts to steal some for himself, but the Leprechaun sneaks up behind him and kills him. Lucky’s screams attract the attention of the other marines and a firefight breaks out between them and the Leprechaun, a fight which ends when Kowalsky throws a grenade, blowing the Leprechaun to pieces and seriously wounding Zarina. To celebrate his kill, Kowalsky urinates on the Leprechaun’s body. However, unknown to the marines, the Leprechaun is still alive and uses his magic to transfer his soul or whatever up through the urine stream and into Kowalsky’s penis giving him the appearance of an STD.

When the marines arrive back at their ship, their employer, the cyborg Dr. Mittenhand informs them that they have been ordered to stay in orbit above Ithacon and act as security until they are relieved by a mining team.

While the marines celebrate their mission success, Delores and Kowalsky go off to have sex, however the Leprechaun emerges from Kowalsky’s penis killing him. The Leprechaun turns his attention to Delores, but she manages to get away and warn the other marines that the Leprechaun is still alive.

Meanwhile, Dr. Mittenhand and his assistant, Harold discover that Zarina’s alien physiology grants her advanced healing abilities, abilities which Mittenhand hopes he can use to create a serum to restore his own disfigured body.

The marines along with Dr. Reeves arm themselves and begin searching the ship for the Leprechaun. In the ship’s waste disposal chamber, Books and Mooch encounter the Leprechaun. The Leprechaun kills Mooch by tearing open his protective suit, exposing him to the flesh-eating bacteria inside the waste disposal before demanding the marines surrender the princess to him, forcing Books to retreat.

The marines head to the bridge where Sgt. Hooker, frustrated over having lost more men demands that Dr. Mittenhand give up the princess, however the Dr. refuses due to needing her for his experiments. When the marines threaten to desert due to their contracts expiring soon and leaving them free agents, Dr. Mittenhand offers them a bonus to get them to stay and kill the Leprechaun.

Continuing their hunt, the Leprechaun kills Danny and Delores before heading to the lab where he kills Harold and frees the Princess. The Princess angry at the Dr. for experimenting on her demands revenge and has the Leprechaun torture the Dr. by altering the regenerative serum he had created before injecting the Dr. with it. The marines and Dr. Reeve corner the Leprechaun. However, the Leprechaun is able to escape after conjuring a bomb and placing Sgt. Hooker under his control.

The marines and Dr. Reeve manage to kill the brainwashed Sgt., just as the Leprechaun activates the ship’s self-destruct. Trying to escape the ship, the marines are horrified to find that the Leprechaun has placed a forcefield around the ship’s only shuttle craft. The marines split up with Sticks going to try to deactivate the ship’s self-destruct while Books and Dr. Reeves continue their hunt for the Leprechaun in an attempt to get him to remove his forcefield.

Books and Dr. Reeves confront the Leprechaun in the cargo bay, however Sticks is caught in a web spun by Dr. Mittenhand who had been mutated into a grotesque spider creature and calling himself “Mittenspider,” forcing Dr. Reeves to leave Books and help Sticks. On the bridge, Dr. Reeves is able to save Sticks by spraying Mittenspider with liquid nitrogen and shattering him with her gun, however she and Sticks are unable to deactivate the snip’s self-destruct due to the computer being password protected.

Meanwhile in the cargo bay, the Leprechaun is exposed to a growth/shrink ray used to prepare cargo for transport and is made into a giant. Books manages to open an airlock sucking the Leprechaun into space where he is killed via explosive decompression.

Books then heads to bridge where he helps Sticks and Dr. Reeves figure out Dr. Mittenhand’s password and stop the self-destruct sequence.

The movie then ends with the 3 looking out the window where they see the Leprechaun’s severed hand give them the finger.

Leprechaun 4: In Space has everything you would expect from a direct-to-home video dumpster fire. Low budget effects. A bad plot, poor special effects…

Female castmembers who look like Playboy Models or pornstars—usually because they are.

While we’re on the topic of female castmembers, Delores was played by Debbe Dunning who also played Heidi Keppert, the Tool Girl from the show within a show on Home Improvement.

Looking back at Leprechaun 4, I’m a bit curious if it was the primary inspiration for Jason X since the premise between the two movies is pretty much identical.

The transition from a generic horror movie to a science fiction movie I feel makes Leprechaun 4 the most absurd movie in the entire franchise just because the switch to science fiction was an easy cop out to explain all the weird bullshit that they could come up with.

Not just really absurd shit like killing a guy by flattening his face like a pizza…

But things like the shrinking/enlarging ray.

Killing a guy with flesh eating bacteria.

Having the Leprechaun brainwash a guy and have him dress in drag.

And the whole thing with Dr. Mittenhand.

Even with all the cheesiness there are some attempts to make Leprechaun 4 good by sneaking in references and tributes from other science fiction franchises.

The first and most obvious is the lightsaber that the Leprechaun uses to kill Lucky.

The way Dr. Mittenhand is dispatched is another science fiction reference. Freezing him with liquid nitrogen and shattering him? It was done in Terminator 2 and Demolition Man, as well as a bunch of cartoons I remember watching as a kid.

Getting rid of the Leprechaun by having him sucked into space? That’s from Alien, Aliens, and was sort of used in Alien: Resurrection.

In fact, and this is a bit more subtle and was something I didn’t get until my third or fourth watch through and that is Leprechaun 4 is trying really hard to pay tribute/homage or at least try to recreate the feel and energy from the Aliens movies. For example, when the marines are trying to find the Leprechaun in the ship while at the same time they’re being stalked by the Leprechaun, you can see that as a recreation of the first Alien movie, where the crew is searching the Nostromo for the alien.

The marines themselves also seem to attempt to recreate the same feel we got from the marines from Aliens. Their arrogance, their hyper aggression it all seems very reminiscent of the marines from Aliens. Even Delores, the marines sole, female member has the same macho energy the guys give off which I guess makes her their Vazquez/Jenette Goldstein. If there’s supposed to be a Ripley in all this I guess it could be Dr. Tina Reeves, but the similarity between her and Sigourney’s Ripley isn’t really there.

The ending where the Leprechaun’s severed hand is seen giving the survivors the finger.

On one hand I feel that this was their version of putting a question mark on the “The End” title card which served two purposes:

A) Subtly setting things up for a direct sequel.
B) Giving the audience one last sense of suspense by making them wonder if the villain is truly dead, or the problem is really gone.

On the other hand I feel that while this seems like something appropriate for the tone the franchise had established for itself, by today’s standards it just seems too dumb.

As I said earlier, it’s hard to figure out what the writers’ logic was when making this Leprechaun 4. Did they stop caring and make it bad on purpose just because they could? Were they making it bad on purpose hoping that camp would make audience think it would be good? Or were they really trying to make a good movie and thought that all these stupid ideas would work?

Leprechaun in the Hood

In Los Angeles (sometime in the ’70s based on their clothes and appearance) Mack Daddy O’Nasses and his subordinate, Slug find a hidden underground chamber filled with treasure and the Leprechaun who has been frozen as a statue due to him wearing the magic medallion from Leprechaun 3.

Mack Daddy takes special interest in a golden flute which he claims for himself before ordering Slug to gather up the rest of the treasure. Slug inadvertently removes the medallion from the Leprechaun causing him to come back to life. The Leprechaun kills slug and turns his attention to Mack Daddy, however Mack Daddy is able to get the medallion around the Leprechaun’s neck, turning him back into a statue.

20 years later, wannabe rappers Postmaster P., Stray Bullet, and Butch are auditioning to perform at a local nightclub so that they can raise money for them to participate in a rap contest, which will lead to another competition in Las Vegas and will hopefully jumpstart their careers. However an electrical short destroys their equipment and their chances of participating in the contest.

Despite having no money for new equipment and with few options, Stray Bullet is able to get the group an audition with Mack Daddy who has become a successful record producer specializing in gangster hip hop. Mack Daddy initially offers the group a recording deal however he quickly takes it away when Postmaster P. refuses to drop his positive message persona and adopt the aggressive, gangster image that Mack Daddy’s label is known for.

Angry at the way Mack Daddy treated them, Stray Bullet convinces Postmaster P. and Butch to rob Mack Daddy as revenge as well as to get the funds to buy new equipment and enter the contest. That night, while robbing his office, the group is confronted by Mack Daddy. Panicked, Postmaster P. shoots Mack Daddy and steals his jewelry and golden flute while Butch destroys a glass case where Mack Daddy had been keeping the Leprechaun. The group remove the medallion from around the Leprechaun’s neck causing him to come back to life. Startled by the now animated Leprechaun, the group shoot him before dropping the medallion and fleeing. Meanwhile, Mack Daddy who had been saved due to the bullet hitting his jewelry is horrified that the Leprechaun is no longer a statue. Mack Daddy flees from his office and attempts to call one of his body guards for back up, but the Leprechaun follows him and rips off one of his fingers before swearing to get back all the treasures that were stolen from him.

Postmaster P., Stray Bullet, and Butch pawn the goods that they stole from Mack Daddy and use the money to buy themselves new equipment and pay for a party on a rooftop to celebrate their upcoming success. At the party, Mack Daddy and his bodyguard confront the group, demanding his flute back. Panicking, the group escape by jumping off the roof and decide to go into hiding until the day of the contest.

Hiding out with their transvestite friend Fontaine, Postmaster P. discovers that the flute has the power to hypnotize anybody who listens to it. Using the power of the flute, the group hold an impromptu concert for Fontaine’s neighbors which draws the attention of the Leprechaun. The Leprechaun kills Fontaine before turning his attention towards the group who manage to escape when they lure the Leprechaun into a trap and set him on fire.

Needing to hide from both Mack Daddy and the Leprechaun, the group flee to a church ran by Reverend Hanson who offers them shelter in exchange for performing at an upcoming sermon. Initially, the congregation is turned off by the group’s music, however Postmaster P. uses the flute to hypnotize the congregation and get them to enjoy their music.

The flute lures the Leprechaun to the group. When the group try to escape from the Leprechaun, they are confronted again by Mack Daddy and his bodyguard who have managed to track them down once again. However Mack Daddy flees when the Leprechaun uses his powers to blow up his bodyguard’s body. Thanks to some quick thinking the group manages to trap the Leprechaun in the Reverend’s safe.

With the Leprechaun locked in the safe, the group head over to the hip hop contest. Meanwhile, the Leprechaun uses his powers to summon his zombie flygirls, women who he has under his hypnotic control to free him and kill the reverend.

Using the power of the flute, Postmaster P., Butch and Stray Bullet win the contest, and secure a place in the Las Vegas contest and a recording contract. The group’s victory is short-lived though as they are confronted once again by the Leprechaun who demands his flute back. Stray Bullet attempts to intimidate the Leprechaun with a gun but the Leprechaun uses his powers to force him to point his gun at Butch’s head. With no other options, Postmaster P. reluctantly gives the Leprechaun his flute back. On his way out, the Leprechaun uses his magic to force Stray Bullet to shoot himself in the head.

Dejected at the death of friend, and the loss of their success, Postmaster P. retreats back to his grandma’s house, however Butch approaches him with a plan to incapacitate the Leprechaun with four leaf clovers and get the flute back, having researched Leprechaun folklore by reading Leprechauns for Dummies and observed the Leprechaun establish a base for himself above a nightclub where he’s seen the zombie flygirls bring women to him every night.

Dressed in drag, Postmaster P. and Butch enter the club with a joint laced with clovers which they use to free the zombie flygirls from the Leprechaun’s control before giving it to the Leprechaun causing him to pass out. Grabbing the flute, Postmaster P. and Butch try to flee the club only to be confronted by Mack Daddy who shoots and kills Butch. Mack Daddy attempts to form an alliance with Postmaster P. in exchange for the flute, revealing that he still has the medallion which has the power to stop the Leprechaun permanently. Postmaster P. angered by the death of his friend refuses Mack Daddy’s offer and shoots him. The Leprechaun, having recovered from the effects of the clover-laced joint heads confronts Postmaster P., pinning him to a column with his magic. However, while the Leprechaun is occupied with Postmaster P., a wounded Mack Daddy sneaks up behind him and hits him with a chair. The Leprechaun uses his magic to kill Mack Daddy by blowing up his torso causing him to throw the medallion up into the air.

The movie then cuts to the hip hop competition in Las Vegas where Postmaster P. obscured by shadows and fog and wearing sunglasses is rapping about how he finally found success. The performance ends with Postmaster P. removing his sunglasses revealing glowing green wywa, a sign that he is under the Leprechaun’s control, before cutting to the side of the stage where the still animated Leprechaun is standing.

The movie then ends with the Leprechaun performing his own rap song.

I came across an episode of the podcast How Did This Get Made? where they covered Leprechaun in the Hood and they brought up an interesting theory and that is Leprechaun in the Hood is basically the Temple of Doom or Fast and the Furious 4-6 of the franchise, and that is Leprechaun in the Hood is actually a prequel to Leprechaun 3. Given the presence of the magic medallion and the timeline of the movie It actually makes sense—even more sense than the multiple Leprechauns theory.

In case you haven’t figured it out yet by the premise or my synopsis, Leprechaun in the Hood isn’t great. Also Leprechaun in the Hood marks a turning point where the franchise gets racially insensitive and offensive by going off of black stereotype

Aside from giving me the prequel theory, How Did This Get Made? also point a plothole, or at least just a mistake on the writers’ end and that is, despite the anti-gangster/positive rap image that Postmaster P., Stray Bullet, and Butch are trying to establish for themselves, they aren’t exactly the greatest people in the morals department. These guys spend their first 5 minutes on screen trying to scam people with a fake Jimi Hendrix guitar. They rob and try to kill Mack Daddy without hesitation, and they use the money they got from robbing Mack Daddy to throw themselves a party. I mean if these guys had any morals why would they be doing shit like that? During my initial viewings of this movie I basically dismissed their behavior as due to Stray Bullet having such a heavy influence on what they do, but considering how Postmaster P.-whose P stands for “positivity” is supposed to be the moral center of the group, you would think he would be more reluctant to go along with Stray’s ideas.

As for the music featured in the movie, it’s not great.

The song that the group play when they’re trying to make it big has decent beats and rhymes but it seems too much like something you’d see in a middle school talent show.

Then there’s the song the come up with at the church. Aside from being really offensive to Christians, it’s just really terrible.

Postmaster P.’s rap at the end when he’s under the Leprechaun’s control is just the same verse for a minute and a half and it’s not a pleasant thing to listen to.

Then there’s the Leprechaun’s great musical number “Lep in the Hood” which is bad idea that will make you want stand up and say “What the fuck?” as loud as you can.

What really makes Leprechaun in the Hood for me so noteworthy is the cast.

For starters you have rapper-turned-actor Ice T as Mack Daddy O’Nasses. Looking at how Mack Daddy was played I feel the character was modeled after the persona and image Ice-T created for himself when he was a rapper.

Although seeing him with his magic afro in the beginning does kind of seem a bit out of character for him. I really wonder how they talked him into agreeing to doing that.

Then you have a pre-Star Trek: Enterprise Anthony Montgomery as Postmaster P.

You also have a random cameo from Coolio—a very random cameo.

In the idea department you have more WTFs. I already pointed out how making the Leprechaun rap was a giant bad idea.

The character of Fontaine, a super butch person playing a transvestite who tries to fuck and possibly succeeds in fucking the Leprechaun before getting killed themselves. Okay… it’s a unique idea.

The end idea of having Postmaster P. and Butch dress in drag to trick the Leprechaun? A really stupid idea straight ripped from a Bugs Bunny cartoon. However what really makes the dressing in drag idea more bizarre is that it actually works against the Leprechaun who demands a blowjob from Postmaster P.

Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood

Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood begins with an animated prologue explaining the Leprechaun’s origins. How in ancient times leprechauns were forest spirits summoned by an ancient king to protect his gold from his enemies. When the king died the leprechauns were released from their service and free to return to home, however one leprechaun who had become obsessed with the gold stayed behind, and became corrupted by greed as the years went on.

Cutting to modern day Los Angeles, a priest named Father Jacob is attempting to hide a chest of gold coins on a construction site where a youth center is being built. However the gold creates a rainbow summoning the Leprechaun to their location. The Leprechaun confronts Father Jacob who stole the gold in order to finance the construction of the youth center. Father Jacob uses the power of Christianity to banish the Leprechaun to the underworld, however he is seriously wounded in the confrontation and quickly dies from his injuries.

One year later, friends Emily and Lisa are trying to get by in life despite their poor economic status. While having a barbecue at the youth center’s construction site (whose construction has been put on hold due to Father Jacob’s death and a sudden halt to the funding) with their stoner friend Jamie and Emily’s ex-boyfriend turned drug dealer Rory, Emily falls into a pit in the and discovers the hidden chest of gold coins.

Dividing the coins amongst themselves, Emily and Lisa use their shares to pamper themselves. Rory uses it to buy a new gun as well as gifts for his spendthrift girlfriend, and Jamie uses it to buy a large amount of marijuana. However, the discovery of the gold releases the Leprechaun from his prison who begins a search for his gold.

At a party at Jamie’s house, the Leprechaun kills one of the party guests by stabbing him through the chest with a bong. Due to the circumstances, Jamie is arrested for the guest’s murder. The next day, at the salon where Emily works the Leprechaun appears and after killing a customer, turns his attention to Emily, demanding his gold back, however Emily manages to escape from the Leprechaun by jamming a hair clipper into his eye.

Meeting up with Rory and the recently released Jamie, Emily warns them about the Leprechaun. The three friends then rush to find Lisa, only to discover that the Leprechaun has already killed her.

Saddened by her friend’s death, Emily demands that Jamie and Rory surrender their remaining gold coins hoping it will be enough to appease the Leprechaun. However the three friends discover that the chest has the ability to refill itself with more gold. Unwilling to surrender a fortune, Rory takes the chest and drives away.

That night, Emily is confronted once again by the Leprechaun, however Rory who has had a change of heart, returns and saves Emily before the two flee together on his motorcycle. The two continue running from the Leprechaun only to be stopped by Officers Thompson and Whittaker. While the officers are arresting Rory and Emily, the Leprechaun appears, and kills the officers giving the two a chance to escape.

Meeting up with Jamie, the group is confronted by Watson, Rory’s drug-dealing rival and his gang who want revenge on Rory for encroaching on their territory. However the Leprechaun appears again and gets into a fight with Watson and his gang, giving the group another opportunity to escape.

Fleeing in Watson’s car and unsure what to do, the group head to Esmeralda, a fortune teller for help to defeat the Leprechaun. At Esmeralda’s building, the group learn about the Leprechaun’s origins as well as his weakness to four-leaf clovers. Jamie, offers up some clovers which he found in his marijuana which Rory seals into some hollow-tip bullets.

The Leprechaun appears and Rory shoots at him with the clover-infused bullets, however his gun jams before he can finish the leprechaun off. Rory and Emily attempt to escape with the gold to the building’s roof while Esmeralda and Jamie attempt to distract the Leprechaun. After wounding Jamie and killing Esmeralda, the Leprechaun confronts Rory and Emily. Rory tries to fight the Leprechaun but the Leprechaun wounds him. Before the Leprechaun can finish Rory off, Emily gets the Leprechaun to chase her into the adjacent youth center’s construction site. Cornered in a boiler room, Emily throws the chest into a furnace and pushes the Leprechaun in after it.

Thinking the Leprechaun is dead, Emily returns to Rory on the roof, only for the Leprechaun to resume his attack. The Leprechaun throws Emily off of the roof, leaving her hanging off of the edge of the building. While the Leprechaun taunts Emily, Rory manages to clear the jam in his gun and shoots the Leprechaun again, giving him a chance to save Emily. Emily then knocks the Leprechaun off the building with the chest of gold causing both him and his gold to land in a pit of wet cement below where they sink

The movie cuts to Emily and Rory having gotten back together, while a recovered Jamie plays basketball with some kids in front of the now completed youth center. The movie then ends with an animated epilogue of the Leprechaun digging himself out of the ground.

Wikipedia describes the entire Leprechaun film series as a “comedy horror franchise,” and for most of the series I feel there was about a 60/40 split that favored the horror aspect of things. Leprechaun Back 2 tha Hood I feel is an attempt at switching those ratios and making this installment of the Leprechaun franchise funnier than scarier. Like its prequel, Leprechaun in the Hood, Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood tries to be funny by playing off of black stereotypes which honestly just makes this movie more offensive than funny.

Drug-use is supposed to be a big source of comedy for the movie.

Seeing the Leprechaun stumbling around being stoned off his ass, I’ll admit is funny, but remember the entire marijuana angle of the movie comes from 2 things:

Jamie, the movie’s token dumbass/stoner…

… and Rory a thuggish/drug dealing figure. Two very unflattering ways to portray black characters in the media.

Then there’s Rory’s girlfriend, Chanel, who is supposed to be this uneducated hood rat hoochie, a very unflattering way of portraying black people in movies, a persona that she plays well and emphasizes when she has one of the Leprechaun’s coins made into a gold tooth.

Seeing Keesha Sharp in this, it’s a bit surprising that years later she would later play Trish Murtaugh, a loving wife, mother of three, and a defense attorney in the Lethal Weapon TV series starring Damon Wayans and Clayne Crawford.

As with previous installments of the series, most of the horror from Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood revisiting its slasher roots and trying to be as gory as possible.

I already showed you the clip of the Leprechaun killing Chanel by ripping her jaw off so he could take her gold tooth. I also showed you the part where the Leprechaun kills a stoner by impaling him with a bong.

Then there’s part where the Leprechaun goes after Emily in the salon. First he kills a customer by strangling/breaking her neck with his bare hands. Then he goes after Emily only to get a hair clipper jabbed in his eye. Unlike Chanel’s death which happens off screen this is something that you can see pretty clearly.

Then there’s the part when Leprechaun goes after Lisa and kills her by ripping her guts out. This death scene I feel is probably one of the more terrifying ones in the movie because it does have a sense of suspense to it. Unfortunately, the obviously fake flame that Lisa uses to try to fight the Leprechaun off with causes an interruption in the terror.

The part where the Leprechaun kills the cops is probably the most gory but is also unfortunately the most absurd in the movie. Seeing the Leprechaun rip a cop’s leg off and forcing him to hop around on one leg-like Lisa with her make shift flame thrower, I feel seeing this just makes you forget that this scene is supposed to be scary

Then you have the part where the Leprechaun fights Watson by ripping his heart out of his chest before turning his sites on Watson’s gang and killing them with his bare hands. On the plus side Watson’s fight with the Leprechaun sets up a scene that I’m sure everybody has been waiting for since Leprechaun in the Hood, and that is watching Lep get lit up by guys with AK47s.

As for the cast, I wouldn’t say there’s anybody too noteworthy here. While there were a few people that I did recognize, I wouldn’t say that they have either gone or came from bigger and better things. If anything they were all small parts here and there in something that was either pretty obscure or just easily forgettable.

As I said earlier there was Keesha Sharp who would go on to play Trish Murtagh in the Lethal Weapon TV series.

Laz Alonso who played Rory would later go on to play Zeke, a step-dancing frat boy in Stomp the Yard, Fenix Calderon, a drug lord’s henchman in Fast & Furious, and Tsu’tey, a Na’vi in Avatar.

Then there’s Kirk “Stinky Fingaz” Jones who played Cedric, a member of Watson’s gang. Jones is probably best known for being a member of the rap group Onyx, as well as small parts in Dead Presidents and the Flight of the Phoenix remake from 2004, although I best remember him as the vampire hunter Blade which was based on the film series and comic book of the same name.

The ending of Leprechaun really gets to me. Out of everything he’s gone through in not just this movie but the entire franchise, are we really supposed to believe that burying him in cement will work? It’s implied pretty well that the Leprechaun can teleport so why would this work? Pretty sure he could just teleport out of there.

Sure it worked in the beginning with Father Jacob, but Father Jacob used the power of Christ to help him.

One thing I did like about Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood is that this movie actually provides a clear backstory to the Leprechaun’s origins. Sure, due to the franchise’s inconsistencies and plotholes it might not be canon, but at least it’s something that’s clearly explained while most of the other movies has the characters reading kids’ books for information on the Leprechaun.

So there it is, I’m finally done with my writeups on the Leprechaun movies. . Sure, there’s technically 2 more movies in the franchise, but honestly I really think I’d focus on the first 6, since those are the ones that have the OG Leprechaun himself, Warwick Davis in them.