Patrick’s Day. A day to celebrate your Irish heritage with pints of Guinness, corned beef and cabbage, and anything green. As a horror movie fan, it’s also a day to celebrate one of the absolute worst franchises in the genre: ‘Leprechaun’. It’s no secret that most actors star in a few bad films before they truly «make it». Warwick Davis is easily one of the most famous dwarfs in Hollywood. He’s made appearances in «Willow», «Labyrinth», and a couple of «Star Wars» films.
Since movie making is always a gamble nothing gets green lighted as easy as a sequel to a box-office smash. Sometimes these perform so well a third installment is in the works in no time and so a franchise is born. Franchises are easy money: they have a fan-base and marketing is a lot easier than with original films. I got the idea for this article and this subject due to the fact that in the never stopping trend of horror reboots and remakes this year a reboot of Leprechaun was released: Leprechaun: Origins. The original Leprechaun movie was released in and got bad reviews. It was made for just under a million but managed to take in almost ten times its budget at the box office in America. In a lot of other countries it was just another straight to video horror movie starring yet another potential slasher icon. Not surprisingly, making your money back ten times is enough to warrant a sequel which quickly followed a year later, and then another one a year later, and then another one again a year later. The first Leprechaun was a bad attempt at creating a goofy slasher icon in the vein of Chucky with some folkore mixed in. As a standalone movie it would have been quickly forgotten together with a lot of similar horror movies from that era. Numbers 2 and 3 were more of the same, but situated in different locations and starring a different cast. By the time the fourth movie came along the writers were grasping for ideas so they took the only road every horror movie series takes when they run out of ideas:.
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It was released in The same year that the Hellraiser franchise also went to space in the movie that killed of Pinhead. Leprechaun 4: In Space is a terrible, terrible movie.
Jennifer Aniston Starred in the Original ‘Leprechaun’
Leprechaun is a American fantasy comedy slasher film written and directed by Mark Jones. It stars Warwick Davis in the title role, and Jennifer Aniston in her film debut. Davis plays a vengeful leprechaun who believes a family has stolen his pot of gold. As he hunts them, they attempt to locate his gold to vanquish him.
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Leprechaun is a series of horror comedy films consisting of eight films. Beginning with ‘s Leprechaun filmed in the series centers on a malevolent and murderous leprechaun named «Lubdan» although he never reveals his name , who, when his gold is taken from him, resorts to any means necessary to reclaim it. None of the series are in chronological order. The first two films were theatrically released. After a disappointing gross from Leprechaun 2 , Vidmark released the following sequels direct-to-video. However, on May 28, , it was reported that Zach Lipovsky , a visual effects supervisor and a finalist on the reality game show On the Lot was contracted to direct the reboot, now scheduled for screening in August Leprechaun Returns takes place 25 years after the original film.
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Warwick Davis Played the Lead in Every ‘Leprechaun’ Film
I dont know if that would be a comedy or horror or maybe. If u guys are lost i mean Leprechaun the ugly little monster who does not like anybody touching his gold, and chucky, the killer doll from child’s play. I think they have pushed these charicters as far as they can if they do a movie involveing these i dont think it will be a box office hit they are getting a bit lame. No matter how much they would want it to be a horror movie it would still be a comedy, I laughed through both of those movies.
Now that you have mentioned it someone will surely try to make one, anything to make a little money. I hate the vs movies, so I will say no. I think both of those movies were jokes anyway, so it would be a comedy. Trending News. Cruise line: Video shows man knew window was open. Social media onslaught after McGregor’s swift win.
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How did a low budget horror movie about a diminutive Irish monster spawn five sequels, a new reboot, and the career of Jennifer Aniston? EW tracks the deranged history of the Leprechaun franchise. Alert readers will leprechau noticed that one of these franchises is not like the. While Star Wars and Harry Potter have raked in billions of dollars, the Leprechaun series has a more niche appeal. Sometimes he speaks in grandiloquent rhyming couplets. Other times? Eh, not so.
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Yet Davis says leeprechaun is proud of his work on the movies. I get tweets daily and they refer to Leprechaun. They watch marathons on St. It was the greatest thing .
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