Leprechaun 3 Reviews

It took me a while to get round to watching the 'Leprechaun' franchise, with so much going on and having a long watch and review list. Saw the films mainly for curiosity to see whether they would be guilty pleasures or deserving of their dubious reputation. Also appreciate horror, and ones with splashes of comedy, and had gotten into watching a few horror franchises that had interested me for a long time.

Watching 'Leprechaun', while understanding why people would find it a guilty pleasure it didn't do it for me. The second film was a marginal improvement but just as flawed with the same flaws. Saw the sequels as a franchise completest (just in case why anybody is wondering why if the first film didn't it for me why the rest of the films were watched too). While it was still not a good film 'Leprechaun 3' for me up to this early stage of the franchise the best of the three films while containing pretty much all the faults that the previous two films had.

Davis is the best thing about the film. He is both amusing and creepy and does do the best he can, successfully, with an again goofy look, some terrible lines (though actually they are funnier and more twisted than in the first two films) and less than tasteful horror which must have been hard to do and shows how conscientious and talented he is.

There are sporadically mildly amusing moments that don't come anywhere near enough, the answer to the health insurance question did make me laugh. The second half does have entertaining moments and with a bigger budget the film looks less cheap than the first film with a more expansive location and slicker photography, while still not being exactly high art because the effects are weak.

On the other hand, the rest of the cast is very poor, with insufferably bland leads and an assortment of irritating supporting roles. The characters display very little personality when they aren't being insufferably annoying with their dumb antics and illogical decision making, the character of Scott being the worst example of both extremes.

'Leprechaun 3' is still lacking in the story and script. The dialogue is pure repetitive childishness, with an overload of cheese and nothing funny, and the humour and whimsicality are forced. Having gratuitous gruesome gore was not enough to cover up for the complete lack of scares and suspense, nothing bit my nails, nothing made my heart pound or skip, nothing made my palms or forehead sweat, nothing made me jump. It's not just because it is so intelligence insultingly dumb, excessively predictable and unintentionally comical, but the story, while picking up a little in the second half, is very thin with a very dull first half. The kills are neither creative or scary, a few distasteful, and the direction is pretty leaden.

Summarising, mediocre third instalment. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Opening with a one handed, one legged, one eyed man handing off his trouble in the form of a statue to a local pawn shop manager. Not long at all until the little one makes his debut in this chapter, biting off some skin and heading on his way. Set in Las Vegas, Leprechaun 3 from the get go appears to have some good potential along with endless possibilities for death scenes. Besides the hood, they could do a chapter in just about every major city and have somewhat descent grounds for another “Lep” chapter. A young college student makes the mistake of his life when he goes to sell his watch after loosing all his money at a casino. Of course, the same pawn shop where the single shilling of gold dropped by the killer leprechaun waits for him to discover. Now, instead of heading to Los Angeles to attend school, Scott has to fight for his life by avoiding the deadly hands (and teeth) of the gold fiending, shoe shining Leprechaun. Another face seems to be familiar besides that of Warwick Davis; that of course being Caroline “Stretch” Williams, playing a convincing casino worker named Loretta who runs Scott for all his money on the roulette wheel. Definitely one in the series to remember, filled with the usual rhyme scheme and blood flow.

Leprechaun: ”I’ll Rip em off and rob em blind.. Those Dirty Sons of Bitches.”