Leprechaun 3
Tags: good versus evil, cult, murder

Plot synopsis:
PlotIn a Las Vegas pawn shop, a decrepit old man with one leg and hand shows up and pawns the shop owner Gupta with a statue wearing a medallion around its neck. The old man claims the statue is his good luck charm and warns Gupta to never touch the medallion it's wearing. When the old man leaves, Gupta cannot resist taking the medallion, so he removes it from the statue. Then a Leprechaun (Davis) suddenly springs to life from his statue prison, jumps on Gupta's back, and bites off a part of his ear, accusing him of being a greedy thief. He then beats Gupta's legs with his walking stick and notices that he's wearing leather shoes. He removes one and states that he "appreciates a good pair of shoes." The Leprechaun takes a hold of his foot and then proceeds to bite the man's big toe off. Before he can cause him anymore harm, Gupta reveals that he is wearing a medallion that he found on the Leprechaun's then petrified body. The Leprechaun runs from it and hides in the basement, where Gupta follows him and is shot in the arm with an arrow from a Cupid statue.Gupta then attempts to negotiate with the Leprechaun by allowing him to have half of the gold in exchange for the Leprechaun's freedom. Knowing he is being tricked, Leprechaun tosses the medallion aside. Gupta runs back upstairs to call for help, but is strangled to death by the Leprechaun via the phone cord. Meanwhile, college student Scott McCoy has just arrived in Las Vegas, but while driving on the streets, he notices a woman with car trouble. He stops and gives her a ride to the Lucky Shamrock Casino, where she works. She is introduced as Tammy, and Scott becomes immediately infatuated with her. While at the casino, Scott can't resist gambling, so he plays at the tables. After losing all of his money at the roulette wheel, Scott goes to the local shop to pawn his watch, where he uncovers Gupta's lifeless body on the floor. While calling for police, Scott unknowingly finds and takes Leprechauns coin and is given one wish. The computer on the counter next to him states in folklore that one wish grants the mortal anything he or she desires and that it remains permanent. After hearing this, Scott sarcastically wishes that he had a winning streak.After he leaves the shop (via the coin's magic transporting him back), Scott strikes rich at the casino (realizing his wish had come true). He is later robbed by Loretta and Fazio, casino employees and attacked by Leprechaun. He is able to throw Leprechaun out of the hotel window, but in the process is bitten and some of Leprechaun's blood mixes with his. During his stay at the casino, Scott begins to undergo Leprechaun-like tendencies (for instance, quoting random limericks in an Irish accent). In the meantime, Loretta and Fazio, along with the Lucky Shamrock's owner Mitch pass the coin around making wishes. Mitch wishes he could sleep with Tammy, Loretta wishes for a new body, and Fazio wishes that he were the greatest magician in the world.Obviously, Leprechaun has survived the fall and one by one, he kills them off. When Mitch goes up to have sex with Tammy, Loretta steals the coin, and when it leaves the vicinity of the room, Tammy snaps out of the coin's spell. After she leaves the room, the Leprchaun enters, using magic to turn the television on. There is a very sexy woman who looks just like Tammy on the television and starts speaking Mitch's name. The woman comes out of the television and starts kissing Mitch. Mitch hears the Leprechaun on the television and looks up. When he looks back at the woman, she is actually a robot. She then proceeds to electrocute him.After uncovering Mitch's dead body, Scott and Tammy spot the Leprechaun beside Mitch's body asking for the coin to be given back to him. Scott and Tammy subdue the Leprechaun and flee Mitch's room. Outside the casino, Scott has begun to turn slowly into a Leprechaun himself from being bitten and must fight his urges. When Tammy takes him to the nearest hospital, Scott is promptly taken to the examination room. The doctors notice irregularity in both his skin and blood, due to Scott's transformation. Scott, now a tall Leprechaun, stands up from his stretcher, subdues the medical officials observing him, and starts wandering around the hospital sensing that the Leprechaun is somewhere in the building. Tammy, worried over Scott's condition, ventures into the empty hospital hallways to find him. The Leprechaun manages to capture her at the morgue and threatens to kill her if she doesn't tell him where Scott is. Before he can cause fatal harm to Tammy, Scott immediately appears and a showdown commences between the two. As they each use magic to subdue one another, Leprechaun warns Scott that his Leprechaun-like tendencies cannot be fought so easily and that he would eventually be drawn to the gold's power. Scott then informs him that Fazio is the one who has the coin, so Leprechaun strolls away in the stretcher & flips him off.Meanwhile, back in the casino, Loretta wishes for her 20-year-old body back. When confronted by the Leprechaun she tells him she doesn't have the coin anymore, the Leprechaun inflates her lips, boobs, and butt. The inflated Loretta tries to escape via a open door but becomes stuck when she tried to squeeze her newly inflated butt through. She continues to grow larger before finally exploding . Fazio was the last to die. He wished to be the best magician in the world. During his magic performance, the Leprechaun shows up. Everyone thinks he is part of the act. They do a trick about a person getting sawed in half. The only thing is the Leprechaun has a real chainsaw. Fazio attempts to make another wish on the coin that he would be at Caesar's Palace, but to no avail since the Leprechaun informs him that he already made one wish and that it's pointless. Everyone in the crowd starts insisting they want the saw trick to be done, not knowing that there would be that much blood and gore. The whole crowd, in disgust, sees Fazio being killed on stage.Tammy and Scott arrive and warn the people to leave for their own safety. The audience immediately leave, while Scott continues to battle with the Leprechaun. Still in Leprechaun form, Scott can't resist the pot of gold the Leprechaun leaves on the stage floor. Leprechaun promises Scott that if he takes the pot of gold, they'll share it, and Scott will be trapped forever as a Leprechaun. After hearing Tammy's pleas to not take it and that the Leprechaun's powers lie in his gold, Scott burns the gold, which in turn incinerates him. Scott morphs back to his regular self, and he and Tammy share a kiss and happily leave the casino together.

Review: There isn't even a thread of a narrative to connect the movies other than there's an evil leprechaun who speaks in ridiculous rhymes and needs his gold and will kill anyone in his way to get it.
I enjoyed where the plot was going, the Leprechaun was throwing some classic one-liners, the deaths were highly amusing, but then it would shift gears and focus on a particular character or subplot that no one cares about and it would kill its momentum.
If the whole movie focused on the main narrative of the coin going 'round and 'round the casino and the Leprechaun having to go through hurdles to find it and kill every poor sap in his path, it would've been a good movie.
Other than that, it has no redeeming value, is classless, has poor acting and even poorer dialog....but sure was fun to watch a couple of times.The Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) has some very funny lines and rhymes and is the undisputed star of the show.
Maybe I should check out the DVD, which was subsequently released.Lee Armstrong provided the female lead role and she was a pretty woman but obviously not much of an actress and few people have heard of her before or since.If you want something stupid but entertaining, a good mix of horror and comedy, this little dirty Leprechaun should fill the bill....but only this edition.
Then the story changes in "Act Two" with "Scott" getting infected with the Leprechaun's blood, and after that it's nothing but a good time.One cool thing is that this time, Warwick Davis gets to speak nearly all of his dialogue in rhyme, and in "Act Two" he's downright funny at times.
This time the leprechaun must get back one of his gold coins which is making its way through the hands of patrons at the Lucky Shamrock Hotel & Casino.
It starts off in a pawn shop in Las Vegas, we see that the leprechaun we know and love is stone-like - captured thanks to a magical golden medallion put around his neck.
The coin gets passed around to so many people in this third film, and each time they wish for something, the leprechaun twists their wish around and kills them with it.
The cast and crew just had so much fun with all the material and since they knew they weren't going to make a star-studded masterpiece, they went with the best option and created a hilarious and exciting "camp gem", unlike the second one which took itself too seriously, and look how that turned out.Leprechaun 3 is just non-stop laugh out loud entertainment.
With rhymes like the leprechaun makes in this one, you can't help but laugh your tail off at how cheesy and humorous the whole film is.
These are comedy horrors and harmless ones at that.Leprechaun 3 is noted as being Warwick Davis favourite and I can see why, it blows the others I've seen out of the water with it's fantastic humour and performances by the cast.Our leading lady however retired straight after production, perhaps this isn't what she had in mind when she went into acting.This third part see's our titular character venture to Las Vegas where one of his golden shillings is stolen.
Cue the bloodshed & brilliant comedic quips.Watching this almost helped me forget about the embarrassment that was the WWE's reboot of the franchise back in 2014 with Origins.Harmless fun and the best one of the franchise that I've seen up until now.The Good: Humour is on point Cast is great especially Davis Looks solid The Bad:A bit silly in places Things I Learnt From This Movie:Leprechauns need health insurance toI really want to see a Leprechaun vs Chucky crossover now.
Several people die like in the other films, but even an evil and greedy leprechaun knows better than to disrespect Elvis in Sin City-he briefly bonds with an Elvis impersonator without causing him any harm.The lep also has some good lines, and this one even features a naïve college student (Scott) who gets bit by the lep and starts to turn into one of the green monsters.
Scott even manages to avoid becoming a little evil green midget at the end of the film.My favorite death scenes are the one where the an older woman jealous of Tammy's good looks finds one of the lep's coin, and wishes she was beautiful again.
The other good death scene is where the dirty old man casino owner gets seduced by a sexy female robot with big boobs, and then gets electrocuted by the lep.The lep also manages to ruin Fazio's magic trick by turning an animal into a pile of poop in his hand-that was also very funny.
in this one you actually get to see some people make wishes with the elusive gold coin, the coin get's passed from one person to another, and it always seems like the little Leprechaun is always one step behind,, the interesting thing in this one is that the leprechaun bites our "hero" in the arm,, and the "hero" has shades of becoming a fellow Leprechaun, interesting premise here, he actually starts to look a little bit like one, there is a lot of scenes in the casino,, and views of the Las Vegas Strip..
Anyway, the Leprechaun is resurrected (from a statue in Las Vegas) and chases after a shopkeeper who attempted to steal his gold, one of the gold coins gets lost and winds up in a young college student's hands, after that it rolls arouns the casino where greedy characters attempt to exploit it (Creating some great situation comedy).
Brian Trenchard Smith 'gets' it: those who settle down for a third instalment of the Leprechaun series aren't expecting a groundbreaking work of art they simply want another undemanding dose of tongue-in-cheek horror, with Warwick Davis hobbling around spouting appalling rhymes, and a spot of really hokey gore.
And that's exactly what Trenchard-Smith delivers with Leprechaun 3, along with some T&A for good measure.This chapter sees the malevolent titular character causing trouble in Las Vegas, killing those unfortunate enough to find themselves in possession of one of his gold shillings.
With help from beautiful magician's assistant Tammy (Lee Armstrong), can Scott defeat the evil Oirish fellow and thus return to normal?Highlights from Leprechaun 3 include Indian pawn shop owner Gupta (Marcelo Tubert) having his ear and toe bitten off, Caroline Williams (Stretch from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) exploding, magician Fazio being sawn in half with a chainsaw (John DeMita), casino owner Mitch (Michael Callan) electrocuted by a topless female cyborg, and virtually any scene featuring the lovely Lee Armstrong, since she spends the majority of the film in corset and stockings..
This is my favourite entry into the series (I've watched three so far) because it makes good use of its new casino setting and has a more interesting cast of characters than usual.
The true craziness of the leprechaun in on full display in this straght to video sequel that entirely gives up on the idea that the franchise has any potencial to be scary and just does everything it can to be more funny and silly than any horror movie has any right to be..
The idea of a person turning into a leprechaun is absurd but given the nature of the materiel and the context of the film the acting on Gatins part lends a lovely, cheesy blend to all of those scenes.
Stopping at a Las Vegas casino, a hapless young man begins a winning streak after coming to possession with a leprechaun's magic coin that soon turns the other patrons of the casino against each other as the leprechaun continues his quest to find it.This one had some really enjoyable elements about it.
Again, like the others in the series, this one does tend to focus more on cheese than being scary or frightening while also forging new rules for dealing with him that don't make much sense, so they're not as big a deal as the film's rather bland, lifeless first half here where it sets up the down-on-his-luck atmosphere too much and keeps the kills and leprechaun off-screen which drags the pacing off.
The hunt for the coins lead him to Las Vegas, which he encounters a boy who soon turn out to be a worthy opponent.Finally on its third sequel, a Leprechaun movie is made which is up there, if not better with the original.
The wonderful Warwick Davis returns as the monster Leprechaun, with the standard "hunt for gold coin" storyline being placed in Las Vegas.
I could go on about the terrible performances, or how the film tells us everything we never wanted to know about leprechauns in a cheesy little computer program.
they did 5 leprechaun movies,but this one (leprechaun 3 in las vegs) is by far the best of the series,this movie is funny and very entertaining,the special effects are creative,it s well done for a low budget film,i gave a 8/10 it was a big surprise!!!!.
this is such a great flick,its clever and funny hip and has good settings,but most of all its scary and after i saw this movie i never went to vegas and stole an irish midgets gold ever again!the only thing it could have used some help with was boobies,it lacked boobies in several occasions.
Then there's the convenient thing where the shop owner was looking up Leprechaun lore on the computer, that plays into the next section At the casino, Scott--our hero--is having a losing streak, then goes to pawn the watch and finds the dead shop owner dead.
The gold coin shifts hands so many times and the Leprechaun keeps killing until the final showdown; which has something to do with Scott not feeling quite like himself.All in all, it's a farce, a decent but predictable farce..
After watching Leprechaun 2, I thought the series from this film and on, with it's oddly absurd scenes and horrible dialogue would soon fall flat on it's face.
Even the deaths this time round I felt were funnier.I mostly have to give props to Warwick Davis as the Leprechaun again, as he did a marvelous job with making him more interactive with the human side of life, which includes meeting an Elvis lookalike or sawing fazio on his magic show with a Chainsaw!
All of these elements which I positively praise, I think make this sequel a tad stronger than it's predecessor.Sure like every Leprechaun film so far, many of the plot lines and the story itself don't make sense, but it doesn't matter.
These films are an excellent time waster, because of how funny they are.I highly recommend Leprechaun 3 as it is definitely one of the best in the series by far.It'll be 7.5/10 schillings out of 10 me las.
RELEASED TO VIDEO in 1995, "Leprechaun 3" is the second sequel in the series about a hideous little leprechaun (Warwick Davis) who likes to kill those who take from his pot of gold.
This one's set in Las Vegas and features a young dude who gets infected with the Leprechaun's green blood and starts to morph into a (taller) leprechaun himself (John Gatins).Although "Leprechaun 3" plays it pretty straight there's also quite a bit of camp.
Too bad she left acting behind the same year "Leprechaun 3" was released (1995), but at least we have this film to remember her awe-inspiring beauty.THE FILM RUNS 90 minutes and was shot in Las Vegas.GRADE: B+ (but Tammy/Lee Armstrong rates an A+++).
The only things about it that scared me, like the first two, were some of the blood and gore and when the leprechaun (Warwick Davis) suddenly appeared or jumped out from somewhere.
More laughs and kills from Warick Davis the Leprechaun and this time it's set in Vegas.
Leprechaun 3 has the Leprechaun (Warwick Davis)going to Las Vegas.It has a good Beginning but goes downhill fast.I don't know why they continued the series considering the huge disappointment in the second.It beats the second but doesn't come close to the first.It's got funny parts that deprive it from the original;But it's still a pretty good movie.I give it *** out of ***** stars..
It goes without saying that no Leprechaun movie is "good," and the series never attempts to claim otherwise.
Only Warwick Davis walked away from this movie and at the time, he was only able to walk as far as Leprechaun 4, The Leprechaun Goes Into Outer Space.
So the setting itself was actually not a bad choice.Again, as in the previous two movies, the leprechaun (played by Warwick Davis) is on a killing rampage and spewing rhyming obscenities.
Leprechaun 3 (1995) ** (out of 4) Surprisenly entertaining third film in the series has our favorite leprechaun (Warwick Davis) being set in stone where he's then sold to a pawn owner.
Luckily the movie has some redeeming qualities in it, which still makes this movie a quite entertaining one.Warwick Davis again gets to do some nice stuff as the evil leprechaun character, that just basically is a shorter and more Irish version of Freddy Krueger.
Especially Lee Armstrong gets annoyingly bad at times.At least it's more entertaining that the previous sequel but it's by no means a great movie.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/.
I know that they're a bunch of horror movies out there that really don't need to have sequels.The Leprechaun series is one of them!
After the pawn merchant takes off the medallion from his neck, the leprechaun comes to life and kills those in his way while traveling with his pot of gold to Las Vegas.
John Gantis is the down and out college student who wants to make it in the big time in Vegas but loses all his money until he meets Lee Anderson, a kind waitress who falls in love with him.The problem with all of the leprechaun movies is that they refrained from horror to make them funny.
this installment of the "Leprachaun" franchise is better than the last two.it's still not great,in fact,it's not quite good either.but it does have a much better pace to it.there are a few more funny moments and one almost hysterical sequence.the body count is higher in this one,and Warwick Davis,once again as the Leprachaun,really gets to cut loose at times.there's definitely a higher energy level this time around.the movie is still not scary at all.and once again,the story is not connected to the previous entries,other than having the same psycho Leprechaun trying to get back his gold.this time,the setting is Las Vegas.for me,so this third "Leprechaun" is the best of the series so far.4/10.
Not as good as the first, yet better than the second, but not by much.This time, they're in Vegas, and the Leprechaun's on a roll.
Disappointing sequel finds the evil leprechaun (Warwick Davis) from the first two films as a lawn orinament that is brought back to life in Las Vegas.
The acting is alright & Davis seems to enjoy his role as the evil Leprechaun, a special word for Armstrong as Tammy who is one fine looking lady & gets to wear a great outfit for the majority of the films duration which is fine with me.I liked Leprechaun 3 overall & it's far better than than the crap second film Leprechaun 2 (1994).
'Leprechaun 3', somewhat continues with that, as none of the characters from the first & second film aren't seen or mentioned at all in the film, also the movie doesn't explain, why Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) is frozen in stone, unless this is a sequel to 2003's 'Leprechaun Back 2 tha Hood', which I doubt.
Once again, the makeup work for the Leprechaun was great, and Warwick Davis was a treat to watch, as the short status villain.
Despite that, another thing, great about this movie, is the addition gimmick that one of the leprechaun's gold shillings grants whoever holds it, a wish.
I give this film 3/10 Bad acting performances, bad scriptwriting/storyline, bad Leprechaun scenes , though a good character development, and great performance by Warwick Davis..
Warwick Davis again reprises his role as the evil rhyming Leprechaun with a hunger for his gold, but this time...
He does a lot of humorous things in this film, that it leaves out a bit of the horror, but it is still a great instalment to the franchise.
But without a doubt, the greatest about this movie is when the Leprechaun stops to play Craps at the Casino while still looking for his pot of gold, it just seems like the thing that he would do, and when I saw him do that, then those guys come to try and make him stop, then he shoves a token down that guys throat and makes him spit out a lot of coins like a slot machine.
This is a great film, again it is a bit more comedy then horror, but I find that to be for the better, I recommend this movie to anyone that wants a bunch of laughs, this is your movie.
Otherwise, you probably won't like this much at all, especially if you expect the first Leprechaun movie but in Vegas.5/10 or: C-.
But this movie had a good plot that a man found the Leprechaun's gold after he killed a pawn shop owner.
I did enjoy part 2, but this 2nd sequel to the '92 sleeper is better and recommended for anyone who wants to enjoy themselves and laugh for an hour and 30 minutes.!!!POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!!This time the little monster is released in Las Vegas and finds out that one of his coins is lost in a Casino.
While the Leprechaun explores the Las Vegas strip and slowly makes way to finding his gold coin, and Scott is given a room at the hotel by greedy owner Mitch (Michael Callan), Lucky Shamrock Casino workers Fazio (John DeMita) and Loretta (Caroline Williams) are fascinated by Scott's good luck.