10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Leprechauns 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Leprechauns By Danny Gallagher March 13, 2012 1:17 PM REDDIT William Thomas Cain, Getty Few icons from folklore and mythology have been branded and co-opted more than the leprechaun. Stories of their rare appearances and coveted pot of gold have permeated almost every aspect of popular culture. They have become so synonymous with Irish culture that the streets are filled with tall green hats and green coats every St. Patrick’s Day. Their history, however, is far different from the traditional leprechauns that endlessly wander into bars and fight hangovers one weekend in March. Take a look at a few things you probably didn’t know about leprechauns. 1. The early leprechaun looked nothing like he does today Kevork Djansezian, Getty These days, it seems that even a toddler with a very loose grasp on the English language can identify a leprechaun thanks to its green clothes, red beard and short derby hat. Early Irish folklore, however, describes this mischievous being quite differently.

According to the 1831 book ‘Legends and Stories of Ireland’ by Irish novelist Samuel Lover , Ireland’s ancestors described leprechauns as short beings dressed in red who wore a “cocked hat” or a tri-cornered hat. So really you should be pinching your pals for not wearing a red sweater. 2. There are no female leprechauns Tim Boyle, Getty There seems to be a hole in the narrative of the leprechaun, besides the fact that the laws of biology, physics and tailoring prevent such creatures from even existing. According to the book ‘A History of Irish Fairies ,’ there is no record in Irish folklore of leprechauns having a female counterpart in their ranks or even a solid record of how they procreate or reproduce. (Try to erase that image from your mind.) The book speculates that leprechauns are the offspring of fairies who were deemed “defective children…because of their shape and disposition.” 3. Leprechauns aren’t just native to Ireland Jeremy O’Donnell, Getty The Irish isle may have popularized the legend of leprechaun, but they weren’t the first to create stories about small people .

Holland, for instance, has the “Kabouter,” a small “gnome-like” creature that cobbles shoes (better known today as a “gnome”). The Isle of Man off the coast of the United Kingdom has the “fenodyree,” a small, hairy, clumsy creature who would help farmers drive sheep and harvest crops. 4. The earliest leprechaun legend is only 20 years old Subscribe to TheFW on Since leprechauns are embedded in Irish folklore and thousands of years old, it’s hard to imagine someone in modern times or even in this century claiming to have seen one of the little buggers. The last legend, however, dates back to the year 1989. Pub owner P.J. O’Hare claimed to have seen one in the Irish town of Carlingford. According to the legend, he was selling some land when he heard a scream in a nearby well. He found a leprechaun’s clothes and the bony remains of the creature and put them on display in his pub. The event has become so famous that it inspired an annual leprechaun hunt in the town. Of course, the townsfolk hunt for fake plastic leprechauns.

5. Portland has the nation’s only dedicated leprechaun colony Atlas Obscura Of course, leprechaun legends and sightings aren’t just limited to Ireland’s shores (and no, we’re not talking about the Alabama leprechaun ). A small patch of carefully landscaped land sits in the middle of a road in Portland, Oregon, but it’s not just roadside greenery to perk up a neighborhood street. It’s actually a park dedicated to leprechauns. Local legend says that a reporter wrote a series of columns about the country’s only leprechaun colony in 1947. The reporter, Dick Fagan, spotted one of the leprechauns digging a hole in the spot outside his window and captured it. He used his wish to get a park of his own, but the leprechaun tricked him and gave him the hole in the ground instead. The two-foot long patch of ground became an official city park in 1976 and serves as the epicenter of the town’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities. 6.

‘The Little People’ helped Sean Connery get the part of James Bond Subscribe to TheFW on Apparently, Sean Connery is so cool that he can get a leprechaun to grant him a wish without having to catch one. The Scottish actor starred in the classic 1959 Walt Disney film ‘Darby O’Gill and the Little People’ about an Irish storyteller who captures a leprechaun king and engages in a battle of wits with the little guy for his three wishes. Connery played the dashing leading man, Michael, who falls in love with Darby’s daughter, Katie. According to the book ‘The Films of Sean Connery,’ Disney held an advanced screening at its Burbank studio with several movie producers in attendance including longtime ‘Bond’ film producer Albert R. Broccoli. Albert’s wife, Dana, felt Connery had a certain sex appeal on screen that made him the perfect actor to fill 007’s shoes and urged Albert to give him the role. It’s surprising his catchphrase didn’t become “Kiss me, I’m Bond.” 7.

The leprechaun wasn’t always Notre Dame’s mascot Jonathan Daniel, Getty Notre Dame might have a long tradition as the “Fighting Irish,” but it doesn’t date back to the school’s founding. According to the university’s archives , team names and mascots changed regularly throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries after local sports writers would use different nicknames to refer to the teams. Some of Notre Dame’s early names included the Catholics, the Hoosiers, the Rockmen and the Bulldogs. They took on the “Fighting Irish” moniker in the 1920s, but switched again to the Terriers. Then in the 1960s, a human “leprechaun” joined the cheerleading squad during the game and the school stuck with the “Fighting Irish.” They even released a new logo to meet their new mascot and have put a leprechaun on the sideline ever since. Apparently the leprechaun tryouts can be just as grueling and intense as the team practice . 8.

Jennifer Aniston’s first film was ‘Leprechaun’ Subscribe to TheFW on Luck may not have been on the side of the makers of the schlocky 1993 horror movie starring Warwick Davis as a homicidal leprechaun trying to steal back his pot of gold, but it was with its female lead. The ‘Friends’ star made her big screen debut in the horror film that spawned five sequels including ‘Leprechaun 4: In Space’ and ‘Leprechaun: In the Hood’ where the evil green menace appeared opposite rappers Ice-T and Coolio. (When asked if she would like to apologize to the nation of Ireland for ‘Leprechaun,’ Aniston said, “I should’ve apologized? Didn’t that punish me enough? Didn’t my karma take care of it?”) 9.

The man who voiced the ‘Lucky Charms’ leprechaun got his start with Orson Welles Subscribe to TheFW on Being the voice of an iconic cereal mascot in TV commercials may not sound like the work of a classically trained Shakespearian actor, but one of the industry’s top voiceover artists was also one of the most acclaimed stage actors of his generation. Arthur Anderson, the man who voiced Lucky the Leprechaun for the Lucky Charms commercials for 29 years , is a longtime actor who started at the age of 12 on a CBS radio show and later joined Orson Welles’ acclaimed theater group, the Mercury Theater. (He played Lucius in Welles’ historic Broadway production of ‘Julius Caesar’ set against the fall of Nazi Germany.) Working with Welles helped Anderson build a career on stage, screen and television that has lasted well into his 80s.

(Fun fact: Anderson’s work with Welles served as the basis for the 2008 Richard Linklater film ‘Me and Orson Welles’ starring Zac Efron.) In addition to Lucky, Anderson was also the voice of Eustace Bagge on ‘Courage the Cowardly Dog.’ Will he come back for the new episodes ? 10. Leprechauns are a protected species under European law YouTube Maybe the reason no one sees leprechauns anymore is because they are an endangered species. If that’s the case, they are actually protected from destruction under European law . The Sliabh Foy Loop trail in the town of Carlingford, the same Irish town where P.J. O’Hare spotted his famous leprechaun, serves as the official protected land for the country’s 236 remaining living leprechauns, according to a law filed with the European Union. The trail even has signs dotting the picturesque mountain landscape asking hikers to tread lightly in the heavily leprechaun-ized area.

And warning to those in search of gold– according to the sign, “hunters and fortune seekers will be prosecuted.” Leprechaun (8/11) Movie CLIP - I'm a Leprechaun (1993) HD - YouTube Leprechaun (8/11) Movie CLIP - I'm a Leprechaun (1993) HD Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Mar 15, 2012 Leprechaun movie clips: Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: Tory (Jennifer Aniston) gives the Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) his precious gold. FILM DESCRIPTION: Friends star Jennifer Aniston made her film debut in this horror story about a psychotic, six-centuries-old leprechaun on a murder spree throughout North Dakota.

CREDITS: Cast: Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston Director: Mark Jones Producers: Mark Amin, Barry Barnholtz, Jim Begg, Jeffrey B. Mallian, Michael Prescott, David Price, William Sachs Screenwriter: Mark Jones WHO ARE WE? The MOVIECLIPS channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Made by movie fans, for movie fans. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MOVIE CHANNELS: Awful film, but it has a campy value. Christian C Super Reviewer Did people actually think this was scary? If so, shame on them. I was laughing at the parts that were suppose to be scary. I mean c'mon, a leprechaun? Leprechauns aren't scary. If I came face to face with one, I wouldn't run and scream, I'd tie him up and force him to tell me where his gold is, end of story. But in this, the idiot characters are afraid of it. The plot is really just the leprechaun terrorizing the characters while he looks for his gold.

It stars Jennifer Aniston as cliched damsel #184. Warwick Davis plays the Leprechaun and he actually does a decent job, considering the dialogue is weird and his character is annoying. Going back to what I said about leprechauns not being scary, the suspense the director tries to build is pointless. The leprechaun looks ridiculous, nobody can take him seriously. His means of killing people are laughable. (Though intentional or not, I'm still unsure of.) In one scene he kills a guy by bouncing him to death with a pogo stick. I'm not kidding, he bounces on a guys chest with a pogo stick until he dies. At the point I just wanted to stop the movie and just throw it away, but considering I'm a glutton for bad luck, I figured things couldn't possibly get worse as the movie went along. I was kind of right; to be fair, most of the movie has its fair share of bad acting, cheesy scenes and painful plot devices, but there is one line that i actually think was kind of badass.

The leprechaun can only be killed by a four leaf clover (Failing in logic 101) and the youngest member of the characters (He's like 9) slingshots the clover onto the leprechaun. As he does so, he says this line: "Fuck you Lucky Charms!" I know my review doesn't come close to making the line as badass as it should, but look it up on Youtube, it's pretty cool. It doesn't exactly make up for the rest of the film though. I'm almost embarrassed to have this movie in my DVD collection, but I figured it might look good since the movie has gained something of a cult following by certain moviegoers. I'm just glad I'm not obligated to watch the countless sequels this movie has. Tyler Robertson Super Reviewer ½ Bad attempt at delivering a comedy horror flick, but still the best in the series (if that says something of importance to you) Leprechaun is a cheesy, poorly made comedy horror film about a killer leprechaun. Starring a very young Jennifer Aniston, in one of her first films roles, Leprechaun is a mess of a horror comedy film.

The film is amusing, but it's still a misfire in the genre. I've seen better horror comedies than this, and this one is forgettable. The performances are questionable and the mood of the film is laid back and silly. This could have been a memorable film, but it doesn't do anything memorable. The acting is horrible, and the gags are boring and repetitive. The film has an unimpressive plot that accompanies the absurdity of this film. Leprechaun is a failure as a comedy horror flick, and it's funny, but only because it's such a bad film. The cast are terrible, and the direction of this film is unfocused and flawed. Director Mark Jones's attempt a comedy horror flick fails on all levels. Leprechaun could have been much better than this, but instead it fails to be a memorable comedy horror flick. This is one of Warwick Davis' worst performances, along with the sequels to this train wreck of a film. However this is the better film in the series, despite the fact it's still a bad film. Leprechaun is the type of film that is almost embarrassing to even call a guilty pleasure. Alex roy Warwick Davis teaches us to spell!

A few moments later, Captain Dork hears Bridget's voice in the garage....or does he? Bridget: Hey, stud. You want a piece of this....think you can handle it? Captain Chubby: Um. Yeah, breaking off a piece of you would be most enjoyable. I thought you weren't interested in my crotch-spelunking expedition? Bridget: I totally changed my mind. Leprechaun: MUHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Captain 2 O'clock: Did you hear something? Bridget: I didn't hear any evil leprechauns if that's what you're asking... Captain Clap: Um. But isn't that him right there? Bridget: No, that's a, um, lawn ornament. Captain Crotchstain: Lawn gnomes don't giggle and drool with malicious glee. What the hell is going on? Bridget: That's my friend Chuck. I totally get off on being watched by the vertically challenged. Captain Whatever: Oh, that's hot then. :raises voice: ENJOY THE SHOW, LITTLE MAN! Bridget: You like what you see?

Why don't you touch them? Captain Cockstand: I'm just really glad that Leprechaun magic has blinded me to the fact that your breasts are, in fact, the blades of an upturned lawnmover. At this point in time, Jared has decided to stop the narration because the breast-blades started spinning and the mental image of the girl's breasts spinning around at high speeds brings tears to his eyes. If ONLY they'd shown that. If only.... Suffice to say, Captain CockBlocked sticks his head between the blades, and dies. Kill #3: The Espresso machine of DOOM At one point in the film (and it's an awesome scene if you care about such things), the Leprechaun gets very, very hammered. By "hammered", I don't mean he bought a sexual favor from an obese Mexican (you pervert), just that he got very drunk. He decides to survive his hangover in a pretentious coffee bar and, of course, ends up killing the shopkeeper who makes fun of him. Of course, "burning someone to death with the steam from a coffee maker" is pretty special.

Kill #4: "I want you Inside me" Now this film introduces something that'll only really be important in the next film, but at least brings it up. Apparently if you capture a leprechaun you get to make as many wishes as you want. "Morty", the greedy father figure of the film, wishes for the Leprechaun's gold. His wish is granted and the Leprechaun's gold materializes INSIDE OF HIM. So he sits there in terrible pain and pretty much gets blackmailed into setting the bastard free so that he can get his "get this gold out of me" wish granted. In case it's not obvious what the Leprechaun does: There are so many very sick jokes I could make about a dwarf's hands being inside of Morty in the above picture, most of them fetish-related. Instead of that let me just tell you that Morty gets cut open and the gold pulled from his ripe, surprisingly blood-free belly.

Kill #5: The Hit and Run (of Death) Apparently goofy vehicles AND killing cops was a big part of the initial Leprechaun franchise as the Leprechaun summons a shamrock-themed go-cart and runs over a police officer with it. The End: There's an animated skeleton and a game of cat-and-mouse in the Leprechaun's tree (you know, just like the Keebler Elves) but it all ends when the Leprechaun gets stabbed with a piece of cold iron, apparently ALSO the bane of leprechauns everywhere. And just to make sure the film's ending isn't lacking: Leprechaun go boom. And the film ends. Enough said. Leprechaun 3 (1995) The Leprechaun goes to Vegas. There's your plot, there's your premise....and there's not much else I need to tell you.. You know that "wish" thing that got Morty impregnated by a lot of gold last film? That's the main gimmick of the film, with everyone being killed by their wishes going awry (if not just being stabbed by an angry mythic dwarf).

There's also the introduction of a magic necklace that turns the leprechaun to stone, but that doesn't really come into the film and isn't mentioned until Part 5 so forget that I mentioned it. Other highlights include: I would totally call a TV psychic if she were a Leprechaun. Leprechauns or not, I kind of miss the "I'm a real psychic that lives in a trailer! Call today!" commericials. Leprechaun. Elvis. Gah. There's also a subplot about how an already-goofy looking fellow mutating into a leprechaun...because we all know that if you get bitten by a leprechaun you turn into a leprechaun yourself. So lyprechaunthropy is apparently spread by a leprechaun's highly infectious bite. That's awesome, hilarious, and lame all at the same time. I'm not sure how I'd react to gaining a skin-condition but I know a hell of a lot of people would gladly trade in those extra few feet of height for a magical pot of gold.

Time for the deaths, because in this one they're particularly amazing: Kill #1: Strangled by a phone cord! That's not amazing at all. Crap. The rest are. I swear. Kill #2: PORN STAR ROBOT! The whole premise that gets people in trouble in this film is that everyone's making a wish with this one magic shilling of gold. The above sleazy guy wishes for one of the girls around him to want to have sex with him...it doesn't work out after the coin is stolen, but suddenly the naked woman on the television starts talking to him by name. And then she pops out of the television and rides him hard. And by "hard" I mean that she kills him. Of course before she does so, she reveals her true form: She's a robot with big fleshy breasts. Christ, I've no clue what's going on or why, but this is a really bizarre way for an evil creature of Irish folklore to kill you.

Kill #3&4: "Beaten with a stick/stabbed in the face" I refuse to talk or even give you pictures of these because two goons pretty much get bludgeoned to death, but you can't tell if they were both meant to live or die. Hell, when I first saw the scene I expected them to return. If they did I missed it but yeah, it's implied that they died. Kill #5: "MY ASS BE BLOWIN' UP ALL OVER DA' PLACE!" A tacky and bitter woman finds the coin and wishes for herself to be the sexiest woman alive. What that really means is she's given better jewelry, takes off the wig, making her look like a recovering Chemo patient, and a lower cut dress. She gleefully looks in the mirror and talks about how much money she's going to make as a prostitute. Again, I'm not joking. Then the Leprechaun shows up and things go poorly from there. You haven't lived until you've listened to a Leprechaun make up crappy limericks about giving you bigger breasts, lips, and butt cheeks.

He makes her "sexiness" swell until she explodes, but let me just transcribe the actual lines, because for the love of God I don't think anyone else would: "You're boobs are big, your butt is small...but still you're in for quite a fall. Oh, didn't you hear? Bigger is good, but Jumbo is dear! I'll give you boobs that come out to here! (Points to her chest where her breasts swell to watermelon size) Most delightful nips, they'll get you some tips. But what about these (lips) are they big enough to please? (girl's lips swell to mallard proportions...) A delightful little slut, but what about your butt? (her butt grows to size of my couch....until girl explodes) Now that was quite a load to have to explode. What a lovely lass I had to blow up your ass, but now I must hit the road." It totally freaks me out that this isn't the first "giant breast monster" to be mentioned on the site. About two years ago I wrote about this monstrosity: (Click Here and scroll down for boobalicious doom). Kill #6: The Mortician gets stabbed.

Yeah. Not that interesting, but the "big butt" limericks make up for it, right? Kill #7: Leprechaun with Chainsaw cuts a magician in half. Admittedly, that's not the most creative of titles for a method of murder, but it's pretty accurate. A very cheesy magician wishes to be great, but ends up getting cut in half by a midget with a mini-chainsaw. That brings me far more joy than it should. The End: Since it's against the rules of sequels to kill the monster in the same way as it was before, this time they take a flamethrower (don't ask, it was a magician's prop apparently) to his gold. By destroying his gold you destroy the Leprechaun....which is illustrated in the film by tying a midget to a wire, swinging him in the air, and setting him on fire. I'm not joking at all. Well, that brings an end to the "normal" killer Leprechaun films. From here on out the remaining half of the Leprechaun franchise is, if you pardon the expression, pure gold.

Drugs, sex, and violence.....along with robots, mutants, giant afros, and "zombie flygirls"...all these things are on their way. This is really the official turning point for the series, as it goes down this bizarre route that can't be taken seriously but, believe it or not, actually improves the series' quality. Well, at least technically speaking. The final two Leprechaun movies are downright professional in their film quality, if not there subject matter. More on that later, now it's time to talk about my favorite of the Leprechaun films: LEPRECHAUN 4: IN SPACE! (1997) Not that I do a lot of research regarding the films that I review, beyond making sure I get the dates right, but I noticed that, among people who call themselves "fans of the Leprechaun" series, this movie has to be the most hated. This movie is a surreal joke from start to finish. If you didn't think it was before, there's no denying it after this. You can't even get confused about the title: It's a freakin' leprechaun...in space. Christ, that's out there already.

Leprechaun in Space has thrown away a lot of the old conventions of the series, just in the name of being weird and sometimes funny. The plot is as follows: The Leprechaun has kidnapped a beautiful (and slightly evil) space princess that he plans to marry so that he can become king. He's done this on a distant mining planet and he ends up being blown apart by space marines who show up to save the day. There's more to it, but really the film is about soldiers on a space station hunting down a rogue life form. Think of it as a remake of the original Alien film, only with tiny shoes and an Irish accent. God damn I love this film for being so terrible and awesome. There are three characters that need to be highlighted before the deaths start getting tallied: Any film that STARTS with a Leprechaun in a Tuxedo is a winner in my book. In fact, I think most films need that. Hollywood, can you hear me? Enjoy Princess Zarina as she blesses us all with a traditional "sentence of death" as is normally given on her home world.

Out of NOWHERE she shows up and aggressively shows us her nipples for what feels like a full two hours. She's this evil spoiled princess that doesn't do much besides the above madness, but any woman who exposes herself to threaten you is worth mentioning in my book. Oh Doctor Mittenhand....You scare me on so many levels. Is it the fact that you're chunky bald self is plugged into a computer terminal? Or is it the fact that you talk with this spooky Austrian accent while wearing a latex glove for unimaginable purpose? Dr. Mittenhand talks a lot in this film and while I can't put my finger on why a strangely asexual European scientist/cyborg freaks me out....it just does. If you see the film you'll understand why Doctor Mittenhand will show up in your nightmares, usually when you're already naked and filled with worry. Kill #1: Leprechaun with Lightsaber, or: George Lucas, please don't sue. Use the force, Warwick. Use the force. Kill #2: The UNSPEAKABLE Way to die.

We've gotten to the best murder on the list...no other method mentioned here even comes close to the depravity/strangeness you're about to witness. Now, to get you started you have to understand that after cutting a Space Marine down with a lightsaber and a short shoot-out with a patrol of them, the Leprechaun gets blown up by a grenade (while saving his would-be wife/princess, if you can believe it). The marine decides to mark his kill in the most sophisticated of ways. Yep. Grown man peeing on a leprechaun corpse. I did NOT think that I'd see that in my lifetime. Thank you, movie. What needs to be mentioned here is that while the golden stream assaults the body, cheesy green special effects shoot "upstream" right into the marine's balls. I think it's the Irish equivalent of "wizzing on the electric fence." The point is one marine has a strange pain in his balls that he ignores until he tries to have sex back on the ship... One minute he's just making out with a woman and the next second he's screaming bloody murder as SOMETHING seems to happening in his genital region.

I can only imagine what this film would have been like if you saw it in a theater. Frequent close-ups of the guy's crotch as SOMETHING unzips the pants and starts poking out of his underwear (which is stretching out of the fly at this point). Dear God, what the hell is happening here? At this point, even the girl is a little concerned, as the guys underwear stretches out revealing something ungodly HUGE to be exiting the front of his pants. So, as the underwear stretches what do we learn was hiding in the Space Marine's testes this whole time? Wow. I really don't want to think where this idea came from. Ever. Kill #3: One Day, We Will All Throw Out Our Garbage Like This... This film takes a very serious attitude towards illustrating how we will throw away our garbage in space. What you see is an accident that occurred in the "waste disposal system", apparently a small series of rooms filled with hooks on chains and DEADLY FLESH-EATING BACTERIA.

All the garbage gets thrown into that room and eaten by the magic microscopics....and of course the Space Marines go in after the leprechaun only to get one of their suits cut and, well, the picture explains the rest. Kill #4: Crushed by a Big Metal....thing. While the scene feels like it takes about an hour to get through, nothing really happens except a leprechaun dropping a huge metal thing onto a Space Marine. Kill #5: Worst Special Effect So Far Falling to your death is usually a boring way to go in flicks like these. The only way to make them even more sucky would be to throw in a poorly done Photoshop background and call it a day. Way to go. Kill #6: Drag Queen Robot Gone Wild! Maybe I should have mentioned "Sgt. Metal Head Hooker" before now. Just think of the most stereotypical drill sergeant character you've ever seen and imagine him with a hubcap glued to his head, thus illustrating visually that he's a cyborg. At one point of the film the Leprechaun takes control of him, forcing him to dress in women's clothes and attack the other Marines.

He ends up falling and splitting his robotic head open which saves us having to deal with this particular bit of gender-confusion. Seeing the most macho character in the film in a rather fetching dress brings me no small amount of dread. Kill #7: I Squish your Head! The Leprechaun throws a tray at Dr. Mittenhand's assistant, literally "flattening" him. Gah. Speaking of Dr. Mittenhand.... How's that image for some nightmare fuel? In fact, I almost want to lie to you and say that's a picture implying all types of sexual perversion....but I can't. What's actually happening is Death #8a: MittenSPIDER! The Leprechaun injects the good doctor with a magic genetic formula mixed with spiders and scorpions. He ends up mutating into this giant monster (as well as calling HIMSELF "MittenSpider"), so technically the Leprechaun doesn't kill him. That pleasure goes to the surviving female lead who freezes him with liquid hydrogen and then shoots him, causing him to explode.

Since he wouldn't have been trying to eat the poor girl, thus causing here to brutally slaughter him if the Leprechaun hadn't messed with his genetics in the first place, so technically he's just as responsible as that lady who freaked out and threw herself down the stairs in the first movie. Oh and just for fun let me point out a MittenSpider-centric highlight in the film: Now a lot of films go out of their way to "discreetly" take off the clothes of their female leads or at least cover them in some potentially sexy fluid. In the (fairly) recent Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, they decided the film would turn into a wet T-shirt contest every ten minutes. In this one (as seen above), Dr. MittenSpider attacks her in the air ducts and swiftly, using only one motion, removes her pants. It's so funny because if you blink you miss it and wonder why the heroine is running around the film's conclusion in her underwear. I think this is a good example of why I like this film. It's so stupid, yet INCREDIBLY accurate when it comes to what you should have in your traditional horror film.

Not that it's related to any kill in particular (and actually ties into the film's climax more than anything) I have to share the fact that the Leprechaun gets hit by a "size alteration" ray and grows to ginormous proportions. Even better is the fact that right after it happens, we get this expression: I think Warwick Davis did a great job in capturing the "holy crap my penis is the size of a Buick" expression. The End: Of course the giant Leprechaun doesn't succeed in his quest (to mostly just marry the evil princess who shows off her rack to those doomed to die) and is thwarted by being launched out of an airlock. Then he explodes in the vacuum of space, filling the "we need something to blow up" requirement that you'll find in almost all Leprechaun films. As his giant body parts float though space, Warwick happily waves goodbye to the surviving Space Marines. If you take horror films seriously, you'll hate this film.

If you're young enough to know that you can't take horror films seriously, particularly older ones, then you'll probably like it in that morbid "holy crap I don't believe what I'm looking at" way. Leprechaun 4: In Space is like the wind, baby. If you don't get it you're not meant to. Oh and never forget to check your genitalia for lurking leprechauns. :shudder: Leprechaun in the Hood (2000) (or, How the Leprechaun got his Groove back) I don't believe it. Leprechaun in Space was a bad movie, but it was at least a bad movie on purpose. There's no way they thought they'd keep making them...unless a miracle happened. Leprechaun in the Hood was that miracle if you can believe it. Now, I've seen this movie more times than I'd care to admit. No one understands how it could be a GOOD movie...and maybe it isn't. Lord knows I may be a good judge of a "bad" movie, but when it comes to the definition of Good, I really don't know.

But, Leprechaun in the Hood has something special going for it. First off, it's got Ice-T in it. Ice-freaking-T. It's also got a cameo from Coolio who I think has a medical condition requiring him to breathe through a bong for the rest of his life. (In case my Mom wants to get the joke: MOM: HE SMOKES A LOT OF POT, OR AT LEAST LOOKS VERY "STONED". STONED IS THE NEW SLANG WORD FOR BEING "HIGH". SMOKING POT IS SAID TO CREATE AN ARTIFICIAL "HIGH" THAT LEADS YOU INTO A HORRIBLE LIFE OF CRIME. I SWEAR MOM, I WON'T DO DRUGS I PROMISE. SEE YOU AT CHURCH.) So the quality of this Leprechaun film is a lot higher than, say, the original. I'm just talking about technical quality and maybe even the make-up on good old Warwick there. A lot has changed stylistically in film between the early 90's and the year 2000 and this film is a good example of it.

Cheap special effects are all over the place but compared to the cheesy effects found in older films...well it comes down to apples and oranges. I will say this: Leprechaun in the Hood has made me and more normal people honestly laugh at its jokes, which has to be worth something in the grand accounting of the film. The film's about three young rappers (or wanna-be rappers) growing up in the mean streets. Their names are Butch, Stray Bullet, and Postmaster P. He's named "Postmaster P" because he delivers a positive message. The movie is really about them needing money to fix their equipment so they can get to a rap competition and potentially rock the world with their east/west coast stylings. Ice-T plays "Mack Daddy", an evil agent that basically is the first real "secondary" villain to show up in a Leprechaun film that actually does anything. He's primary to the plot and actually ends up killing Butch at the end which may be the first time someone dies from something non-leprechaun related in these films.

The plot's still pretty goofy retarded as it seems to revolve around a magic flute, but that gets outweighed by what we see Leprechaun-wise in the film. Are you ready? (The answer is no.) I don't know about you, but I've always wanted to see a mythic leprechaun smoking pot. Even better, Ice-T convinces him to call it by its proper street name: "Da Bomb." You haven't lived until you've heard Warwick Davis say that particular turn of slang. What happens later in the film (actually it originally happened in the middle of the film but was deemed too goofy and was thusly put in over the film's credits) is pretty amazing. Warwick Davis as the Leprechaun....raps. The chorus to his funky beat is simply the line: "A Lep in the Hood can do no good, A Lep in the Hood can do no good." Mother of God, it's scary, and he even recruits some gold-wearing booty dancers to carry him around and shake their asses at the camera for about ten minutes.

Life is good, but I think the pictures should speak for themselves: I might be mistaken, but I doubt there're many people out there who really need the lyrics to the "Leprechaun Rap." If I'm wrong, email me. I dare ya. Kill #1: The 'Fro Pick to the jugular... What I forgot to mention is that the film starts with a flashback to the 1970's where Ice-T and his friend find the Leprechaun and his magic flute (again, the less said the better). While you do get to see Ice-T pulling a knife and baseball bat out of his huge afro, the most notable thing his the guy who gets stabbed with his oversized hair accessory. I'll say no more. Kill #2: It's Electric (boogie woogie!) I already mentioned the "leprechaun rapping" scene but you can tell that the scene was MEANT to happen toward the beginning of the film as the Leprechaun kills the Disc Jockey that teaches him what Rap music is....and in the process is given a microphone.

While the rap itself was too freaking long and goofy to be included this early in the film, the set-up to the scene was left in place...fun trivia for the Leprechaun fanatic in all of us. Kill #3: Hot Zombie Action. The young rappers, now armed with Leprechaun gold, start spending their wealth. The next two deaths show the fates of the shopkeepers who accepted "cursed elvish gold" as payment. The first one is torn apart by his wife come back from the dead while Chow, the Asian shopkeeper, has the privilege of being: Kill #4: Torn Apart and Pickled (by a leprechaun) Now, before I mention the next kill, let me introduce you to someone. Meet Fontaine Rivera: Our heroes find shelter with a kindly transsexual who is very, very scary. I would be all types of supportive of the transsexual community here but to be fair: Fontaine Rivera is making fun of it. If the movie's not going to be sensitive to gender identity issues, I'm just going to skim over them for now.

(Don't worry, I'll make up for it with the upcoming "Gays in Space" article....no joke.) Instead, let's look at Fontaine's big scene: Just look at the Leprechaun's expression when Ms. Fontaine tells him he's "just the right size." Being hit on is something that totally ninja-stabs the Leprechaun in the face so he's particularly slow to react and at a loss for words which explains... ...how he's so easily led into the bedroom. While I admit that the sex between a midget and a butch transsexual would probably sell more DVD's than I'd care to admit, I don't want to think about it. Suddenly the rappers (you know, the protagonists) hear screaming coming from the bedroom. Oh, they'll PRETEND they're disgusted, but really....If they weren't at least a little interested why the heck are they looking into her (his) bedroom? And if you think I'm joking about that know this: In twenty minutes two of those three boys will be in women's clothes and of them will have his hand on a leprechaun's crotch. Gah.

Oh and just to make sure we're clear, Ms. Fontaine dies horribly while under the sheets with the Leprechaun. Did I mention that Coolio looks really, really stoned? Kill #6: The Leprechaun shoots a hole through someone. I don't really get it either, but the Leprechaun points his finger like a gun and Ice-T's bodyguard sort of explodes. To make up for this weirdness, Warwick Davis amazes us by sticking his hand through a priest. Kill #7: Seriously, he sticks his hand through a priest. Death #8: Mind Controlled Suicide! Just to show the boys that they shouldn't mess with him, the Leprechaun makes "Stray Bullet" shoot himself in the head. It's actually done rather dramatically and well....yeah. The surviving heroes swear their revenge and begin their crusade, but how? By dressing in drag.

Apparently the Leprechaun is partial to big scary women and they plan on getting into his crib by acting as "fly bitches." It seems the Leprechaun already has a reputation for loving his weed and his sweet honeys, so they decide to cash in on that by mixing up a special joint (MOM THAT MEANS A MARIJUANA CIGARETTE) that has 4-leaf clovers on it. In case you've forgotten because it hasn't been mentioned since the first film, 4-leaf clovers are the bane of leprechauns. In this case, smoking them puts him to sleep. Of course even after they get close enough to him (and listening to him say "Come close, come closer my dear sweet lass....let me look at you before I tap that ass") he doesn't seem to pass out...causing out main hero to be lured FAR TOO close to him. His reward, besides getting to grope a Leprechaun's erection (aaaaaaaahhh!) is this rather intimate look: Luckily the Leprechaun passes out in the next moment, but still that mental image is burned into my retinas nonetheless.

Kill #9: Shot by Ice-T while wearing a dress and Kill #10: Ice-T go Boom! This article is FAR TOO long already so let me just be anti-climatic and just say that Butch dies after getting shot by Ice-T before the Leprechaun makes Ice-T's chest explode. What's far more interesting here is the ending. The Leprechaun wins. Postmaster P (you know, the rather manly lad in the bright red dress as seen a little ways above) seems to have won the rap competition and sings about how all his homies (homeys?) got shot and how much of a badass he is. Then he takes off his glasses and shows you his eyes are gleaming "Irish green", meaning he's possessed. And there in the audience is the Leprechaun smiling this "holy crap I survived one of my own movies" smiles. Leprechaun Back 2 Tha Hood (2003) Holy crap. If the last film was the Leprechaun in the Hood, then this film has to be the Leprechaun in the freaking ghetto.

How else do we have a film with an Ebonics title, scenes about gold teeth, dope rims, mad booty, and so much more. While "In the Hood" it was pretty clear they were satirizing the whole urban music scene (and maybe just the urban scene itself), this movie's in a weird place that makes it hard for me to talk about it without showing you a picture proving I'm a black man so that I can get away with it. I THINK it's making fun of African American hair salons, fashion, clothing, drug use, choice of tires....the problem is that I can't tell what's a joke and what's meant to be taken as character development. The movie's about the mean streets and people just want to survive....with the help of the local psychic. Damn it, it's hard NOT sounding like a racist when you analyze this film, mainly because stuff like this is satirizing racial stereotypes in the first place. At least I hope it is. If it isn't, dear God I apologize.

I don't even want to mention that the funniest part of the movie revolves around the fact that white people aren't allowed to say the word "Nigga." So when one cracker (white people are all goofy crackers in these films...which I admit is pretty funny) does use the dreaded "N-word", they tell him no one says that anymore. "It's all WHAT'S UP NINJA, dawg!" "Sup, Ninja!" "Yo dawg, you mah Ninja!" It's really, really funny and probably doesn't make must sense me just typing about it here. :sigh: Let's get this over with. Kill #1: The Priest gets cut to all HELL and bleeds to death. The movie opens with a man of the cloth fighting the Leprechaun. He summons the power of Jesus or something and all these zombie ghost hands (or something) suck Warwick into the earth. The priest bleeds to death immediately after his victory from wound he got fighting the tiny man.

Well, I THINK he bleeds to death...the problem here is that instead of real (or at least fake) blood illustrating "holy crap he's dying", the director thought it would look good to use cheap computer graphics instead. So the blood that poors out looks like something from The Blob, or I'm totally wrong and priests have a blood consistency akin to Jello pudding. While I'm getting ahead of myself, there is one highlight that just can't wait. Now you've got to realize that besides the whole "bullets/stabbing thing doesn't kill him" thing, the Leprechaun doesn't really use magic too much in the movie (at least on-screen). What that really means is that you get to see a lot of your traditional slasher film stuff. Now as the heroes escape in their car, the evil elf attaches himself to the bottom of their car and starts clawing his way through. Now this would usually be a cause for concern. In the ghetto, however, everyone has cars tricked out with mad hydraulics. You haven't lived until you've seen the Leprechaun be thwarted by someone's sweet lifts. It's so ghetto and awesome at the same time.

Kill #2: In Soviet Russian, Bong Hits You! Ah, there's nothing funnier than watching a Leprechaun smoke both through a bong. (MOM: A BONG IS A SPECIALIZED PIPE FOR SMOKING THE MARIJUANA AND I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THEM.) Seriously, it's just awesome to see a video montage dedicated to getting Warwick Davis stoned. Of course in the end the buzz gets harsh and the Leprechaun has to kill his smoke buddy because he has some of his stolen gold. And yeah, that means that the "Yee be after meee Gold" theme has returned from the first three films...for better or for worse. Kill #3: The Leprechaun Massage (of Death) There's not much to it except that the fat obnoxious lady at the beauty salon gets a massage from Warwick before the Leprechaun strangles her. For the trivia dork in all of you, this is the first time we get to see the Leprechaun's feet. Not pleasant, but trivia nevertheless.

Kill #4: The Gold Tooth (again) I don't get the idea behind gold teeth so I'll avoid making any jokes about it because apparently that would be making fun of someone's cultural heritage or something like that. I will point out, though, that this isn't the first person to have their gold tooth pulled out of their face by the Leprechaun...it originally happened in part two...but the guy lived. The difference here is that the Leprechaun ALSO took the lower jaw as well, as a sort of bonus. Did I mention he's a little more violent in this one? Kill #5: "Gutted like a fish!" It's not that interesting and neither is the next one. Kill #6: The Po'Po gets stabbed in the intestines with his own nightstick. Kill #7: Got your leg! I'm so tired of typing the word leprechaun. At the very least I'll never misspell the word ever again just by the sheer fact that I've had to type it some five thousand times while writing this damn thing.

So the Leprechaun tears the Leprechaun cop's leg off Leprechaun Leprechaun Leprechaun. AAAAAAH. Kill #8: Kali Balla, Kali Balla! (It's an Indiana Jones joke you cretins...you know, the guy who rips out people's hearts? Nevermind.) Kill #9: Leprechaun cuts random banger's (not as in mash) throat. Simple enough, right? Kill #10: Holy Crap, the psychic lady. I totally wish that was her name. Sadly that's just what I exclaim when she shows up and starts using her magical powers on the Leprechaun. This is the FIRST time anyone else besides Warwick has done the magic thing and while it'd be nice to see some sort of epic battle between good versus evil (instead of the typical evil versus greedy), don't expect any Sigourney Weaver "Let her go, you BITCH" moments here. The psychic uses the Force on our main midget and ends up being killed off camera after we see Warwick's eyes start glowing crappy computer effect red.

So yeah, the final death of the Leprechaun Death Toll happens freakin' off-screen. What the crap. The End: Just to continue the damn Star Wars thing, the Leprechaun gets pushed off a rooftop along with his gold and gets frozen in Carbonite....or at least wet cement. There were these 4-leaf clover bullets involved there somewhere, but since they didn't really do anything except cause little computer-generated balls to float around Warwick, the less said the better. I'm not against computer-generated effects but just like any kind of special effect they come in both good and bad varieties. So in the end of this one the Leprechaun doesn't explode, but simply sinks into frozen concrete oblivion. But hey, it's over. Total Number of people killed by the Leprechaun: 44! Wow. I just wrote a 9-thousand word article about the Leprechaun series. Either have far too much time on my hands or I can type really fast. To be fair, I think it's a combination of the two. But I still feel I've forgotten something. Oh yeah. The Wee People. Or more accurately, the Wee Person.

Warwick Davis has played the Leprechaun for over a decade. He's the main reason the series is around, and that's not just because of his height (which admittedly is part of the equation). The thing to remember here is that Warwick Davis is a real person. He's not the Leprechaun. He's an actor playing a role. He does an amazing job of presenting a psychotic Leprechaun but more importantly it just looks like it's fun to be him. I don't know how accurate that is but I do know he's got his own site which is, as far as celebrity sites go, rather awesome. Considering the number of celebrities I've contacted (and luckily heard back from) thanks to the Internet, I'm sort of proud to say that Warwick's got one that honestly entertains the socks off me. Maybe it's the fact that he sounds like a nice, funny guy...and maybe it's just the fact that he seems to really enjoy playing up his Leprechaun role, even to this day. Check it out: He even recorded a St. Patrick's Day message from the Leprechaun just last week, so you know he liked the role.

I guess I just wanted to make it clear to everyone that this article isn't mocking Warwick Davis. Rather, it's really here to document all this crap that's happened in the Leprechaun films over the years. There's an important difference there...and you know that midgets are funny. It's terrible, but before Willow, I can't name a film that presented someone of unusual height in a favorable light...or even as a real actor. Even today it's been a weird issue in Hollywood. Warwick Davis rocks. I can't decide how I want to finish this article except reminding you that DEAR MOTHER OF GOD the Leprechaun series is random. From the days of a slutty Jennifer Aniston to Dr. MittenSpider stealing a lady's pants to a Leprechaun doing bong hits, it's been a weird ride from here to there. -jared Leprechaun (1993) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends.

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Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith Our deadly leprechaun is in space to woo a beautiful princess who is impressed with his gold and desires to separate him from it. Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith When three rappers want to get even with a pimp, they accidentally unleash a leprechaun who goes on a killing rampage in the 'hood. Director: Rob Spera 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3.9/10 X When Emily Woodrow and her friends happen on a treasure chest full of gold coins, they fail to to heed the warnings of a wise old psychic who had foretold that they would encounter trouble with a very nasty and protective Leprechaun. Director: Steven Ayromlooi Two young couples backpacking through Ireland discover that one of Ireland's most famous legends is a terrifying reality. Director: Zach Lipovsky Edit Storyline When Dan O'Grady returns to the U.S. after stealing some Irish leprechaun's pot of gold, he thinks he can settle down and enjoy his newfound wealth. He thought wrong.

The leprechaun followed him and O'Grady barely gets away with his life, having locked the little monster in his basement. Ten years later, J.D. and his spoiled daughter Tory move in. By accident, the leprechaun is released and almost immediately the annoying creature starts to look for his gold, not displaying any respect for human life. Written by Peter Zweers <peterz@pi.net> Her luck just ran out [DVD] See more » Genres: Rated R for horror violence and language | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 8 January 1993 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Jennifer Aniston 's feature film debut. See more » Goofs When the Leprechaun is chasing Tory around the nursing home, his arms turn the wheelchair wheels magically quickly. But in one shot of him in the chair (that also includes Tory), his arms are moving at normal speed. See more » Quotes [first lines] Leprechaun : [the Leprechaun talks to himself while sitting over his pot of gold] Ah! Try as they will, and try as they might, who steals me gold won't live through the night.

You have to appreciate stupid horror movies to like this one 5 May 2002 | by kraziken (Seattle) – See all my reviews This movie is rather ridiculous and predictable. First of all, understand, that there are absolutely no scary scenes in this movie. I don't think this movie would even scare me as a kid. I love horror movies, and heard a lot about leprechaun, so I thought I'd give it a look. If you are looking for a scare, I'd recommend that you pass this movie up. However, it may be worth while to watch for a couple of reasosn. Pure curiousity may be worth it as it is kind of funny. It can be boring to you if you don't appreciate this genre. Jennifer Aniston is awfully cute in this movie. I personally thought it was worth while just for that. If you have fast internet access, I recommend you check out You can view Leprechaun for free as it is one of their free movie offerings. 16 of 25 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes

Question: Who was the female lead in the film "Leprechaun"?
Answer: Jennifer Aniston