Hello Enthusiacs I am your lord of Shadows and today we take a trip back to 1993. Warwick Davis, famous for his roles as both wicket in Return of the Jedi and Willow in well Willow, took on the title role of The Leprechaun.

This movie is hilariously bad, in fact if you haven’t seen I highly advise you see it. Warwick nails the mix of comedy and monster to play and comes across as a darker version of chuckie from Childs Play only far less serious.

The movie begins in 1983 with Daniel O’Grady returning home for Ireland with a pot of gold. He buries the gold as it is revealed that the Leprechaun stowed away in his luggage. When Daniel finishes hiding the gold he returns to find his wife dead the Lep having taken her place.

Daniel however does end up winning their fight putting the Leprechaun in a wooden box. He seals it with a four leaf clover. Now later in the movie he will reveal the way to kill a Leprechaun is to touch it with a four leaf clover. Why didn’t he just do that right here? Oh so we can have a movie? Thought so. Instead he plans to burn the house down around the Leprechaun but has a stroke before hand and can’t get it done.

Cut to a decade later when a new family is moving into the Leprechaun house. But now it’s time to talk about the real stars of this flick. The three men that paint. The neighbors who have been hired to fix the place up. Nathan, Ozzie, and Alex. They provide us with a lot of laughs and more than a few groans.

Now Ozzie is for lack of a better work just this side of retarded. He is the first to see the Leprechaun and of course no one believes him because again he’s this close to herpa derp. He ends us eating one of the gold pieces which comes back into play later.

Nathan winds up getting bitten by the Leprechaun and they have to rush him to the doctor. Alex and Ozzie take the gold to a pawn shop to see how much it’s worth. This leads to one of the most ridiculous kills in horror history

The Leprechaun kills the pawn shop owner with a fucking pogo stick. This must be seen to be believed. We aren’t even done yet. He then returns to the house to search for the gold and to shine all the shoes. Yes one of his weakness is he has to HAS TO shine any shoe he sees.

Seriously they even use this to distract him and give him the bag of gold. They assume the ordeal is over and go back to the hospital. However he is missing the piece eaten by Ozzie who apparently has the longest god damn digestion time ever.

At the hospital they learn how to kill the Leprechaun like I said earlier. This leads to the final showdown and one of if not the greatest lines in this entire movie.

Alex the little kid loads the four leaf clover into a piece of gum and while aiming his sling shot shuts.

“FUCK YOU LUCKY CHARMS!”

This is worthy of Schwarzenegger and trust me you will re watch this over and over again. Thus ends our story and really it doesn’t so much end as it just stops. The movie is like well Leprechaun is dead go home folks.

This movie is something of a marvel. It is both good and bad. Not in a so bad it’s good kinda way. But in a the good out weighs the bad kinda way.

Until next time I am the Lord of Shadows saying

Stay Scared my friends.