Leprechaun 3Year: 1995 Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith Written by: David Dubos Threat: Leprechaun Weapon of Choice: Cane |
Other movies in this series:
Leprechaun
Leprechaun 2
Leprechaun 4: In Space
Leprechaun in the Hood
Leprechaun Back 2 tha Hood
Rish Outfield's reviews
Judging from the box, Leprechaun 3 sounded good. It was not. Sometimes a
movie will be made that has a great premise, but just fails miserably, but
this one didn't have any potential. In that way, I guess they made the best
movie they could with what they had. Las Vegas is a really romantic place in
the movies, but in reality, it ain't like that. The girl was very pretty,
hired for her face and body, but it became clear from her first scene that
she couldn't act her way out of a deflated balloon. The main hero was
neither likable nor believable, as he constantly got himself into trouble,
then never had to pay for any of it. The title character proved once again
that there are things less frightening than Chucky. Warwick Davis talked in
rhyme a lot, which was bad, but a lot of the rhymes were uncreative and
hokey, which was worse. They rhymed 'shilling' with 'killing' THREE times,
by the way. There was, I'll grant, some funny dialogue at first, mostly from
a mobster and his bodyguard, but those scenes were far and few-between. Yes,
I meant that wrong. There was a woman whose breasts and backside grew until
they exploded, but that's no reason to see it. In the end, I searched for
somebody to root for, and ended up choosing the end credits as my somebody.
I'd Recommend It To: Those who loved the first two, but still, I'd suggest
you skip this one and go right on to the fourth (it's a blast!)
The tyranist's thoughts
Bad. Bad. Bad. You may find it hard to believe, but this is the worst entry in the Leprechaun series. Even
Leprechaun 4: In Space has some redeeming qualities. This doesn't. It is simply terribly done. The villain is still
so unscary that he makes you giggle when he tries to be threatening. The dialogue is so abominable that you will have nightmares
in which you will dream that people talk that way. There isn't a single truly sympathetic character in the whole movie. And to
top all of that off, it takes place in Vegas. Nothing is scary in Vegas. Nothing. There is too much light and too much excess
for anyone to be scared of a little gnome. This series should never have been made, but since they did make it, they should have
stopped after two.
Total Skulls: 23
Sequel | ||
Sequel setup | ||
Rips off earlier film | ||
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
Future celebrity appears | ||
Former celebrity appears | ||
Bad title | ||
Bad premise | ||
Bad acting | ||
Bad dialogue | ||
Bad execution | ||
MTV Editing | ||
OTS | ||
Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
Wanton sex | ||
Death associated with sex | ||
Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
Characters forget about threat | ||
Secluded location | ||
Power is cut | ||
Phone lines are cut | ||
Someone investigates a strange noise | ||
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
Camera is the killer | ||
Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
Victim locks self in with killer | ||
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
Toilet stall scene | ||
Shower scene | ||
Car stalls or won't start | ||
Cat jumps out | ||
Fake scare | ||
Laughable scare | ||
Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
Dream sequence | ||
No one believes only witness | ||
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
Music detracts from scene | ||
Death in first five minutes | ||
What the hell? | ||
x years ago . . . | ||
Dark and stormy night | ||
Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
Killer wears a mask | ||
Killer is in closet | ||
Killer is in car with victim | ||
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
Unscary villain/monster | ||
Beheading | ||
Blood fountain | ||
Blood hits camera | ||
Poor death effect | ||
Excessive gore | ||
No one dies at all | ||
Virgin survives | ||
Geek/Nerd survives | ||
Little kid lamely survives | ||
Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
Unresolved subplots | ||
"It was all a dream" ending | ||
Unbelievably happy ending | ||
Unbelievably crappy ending |