Leprechaun - the killer goblin

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Movie
German title Leprechaun - the killer goblin
Original title Leprechaun
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1993
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16 (re-examination)
Rod
Director Mark Jones
script Mark Jones
production Jeffrey B. Mallian,
Mark Amin,
Michael Prescott
music Kevin Kiner ,
Robert J. Walsh
camera Levie Isaacks
cut Christopher Roth
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
Leprechaun 2

Leprechaun is an American horror film from 1993. The main roles are played by Warwick Davis and Jennifer Aniston , who starred in the film for the first time.

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On January 10, 1983, Daniel O'Grady returned from Ireland and happily told his wife that he had managed to catch a leprechaun and that they were awarded a pot of gold that he wanted to hide quickly. Meanwhile, his wife goes into the cellar, where the leprechaun manages to free herself from the box and the woman pushes down the cellar stairs. Shortly thereafter, O'Grady also discovers that the leprechaun was able to break free, but manages to put him back in the box and keep him trapped with a four-leaf clover .

Ten years later, JD Redding moves into the O'Grady home with his daughter Tory. There they meet Nathan Murphy, his little brother Alex and the mentally retarded Ozzie, who are tasked with repainting the house. While Ozzie is looking around the basement, he hears the leprechaun yelling for help, who pretends his voice to be that of a child. Ozzie strokes the box and wipes the four-leaf clover off the box, which allows the leprechaun to break out of the box.

Ozzie tells the others what he has just seen and that a leprechaun was in the basement, but fails to convince them, whereupon he discovers a rainbow and follows it, believing to find a pot of gold at the end. Alex follows, fearing that Ozzie might injure himself. The two come to an old truck, where they actually discover a bag full of gold coins. When Ozzie bites it to see if it's real money, he swallows a coin. Alex says they should keep the gold, maybe it can fix Ozzie's brain with it.

Meanwhile, the leprechaun injures JD by imitating a cat and biting his hand. Tory and the others take him to the hospital, not knowing that the leprechaun is following them on a tricycle. Alex and Ozzie go to a pawn shop to have the gold valued, while Nathan and Tory wait for the results of the investigation. When Alex and Ozzie leave the pawn shop, the leprechaun kills the shopkeeper by ramming a jumping stick into his chest. On the way back to the farmhouse, the leprechaun kills another policeman. When he arrives at the house, he looks for his gold and shines all the shoes in the house. Meanwhile, Tory, Nathan, Alex and Ozzie also return to the house and discover that it has been searched. Nathan wants to look around outside and runs into a bear trap that the leprechaun set up.

The group shoots the leprechaun several times and tries to leave the farmhouse, but the truck has an engine failure and shortly afterwards the leprechaun and the group in it are knocked off the road with a kind of kart. Back at the house, Ozzie and Alex reveal that they have found the pot of gold. Tory goes to hand this to the leprechaun. When she fishes the pot out of the well and gives it to the leprechaun, the group thinks the terror is over, but the leprechaun counts his coins and notices that one is missing. He thinks they were trying to trick him and starts the hunt again. Ozzie tells the group that old O'Grady knows how to beat the leprechaun and tells Tory where to find him.

Tory arrives at the nursing home where she finds O'Grady. When she speaks to him, however, she has to find out that it is the leprechaun. Tory flees into the elevator, where suddenly bloody O'Grady falls from the ceiling. As he dies, he tells Tory about the four-leaf clover and where to find one. Tory returns to the house and starts looking for a shamrock right away, until she is surprised by the leprechaun. He almost kills her, but he is stopped by Nathan and Ozzie. Alex tries to set a trap for him and is almost killed by the leprechaun himself before Ozzie tells him that he swallowed the missing coin and is therefore injured by the leprechaun. Before he can kill Ozzie, Tory gives Alex a four-leaf clover, wraps it in chewing gum and shoots it in the mouth of the leprechaun, causing him to lose all his strength.

The police eventually reach the house and Tory is reunited with her father.

publication

Leprechaun started in 620 cinemas in the US and grossed almost $ 2.5 million on its opening weekend. Total US revenue was approximately $ 8.5 million on a budget of $ 900,000.

Reviews

The film received mostly negative reviews.

"The technical skill of the director, the successful mask of the lively goblin and the carefully orchestrated music cannot hide the inadequate dramaturgical concept of the horror film, which is too brutal in some scenes."

- Lexicon of international film

Sequels

The film drew numerous sequels with it, in which only Warwick Davis was retained as a continuous lead actor. The first sequel Leprechaun 2 started in 1994 directed by Rodman Flender in American cinemas and also received mostly negative reviews. Here the action and the death of the leprechaun was ignored in the first part. In 1995 the third part was released directly on video with Leprechaun 3 - Deadly Game in Las Vegas , in 1997 the fourth part Leprechaun 4: In Space was also released on video. The film was released in Germany under the title Space Platoon . Directed by here again Brian Trenchard-Smith , who was also responsible for the third part of the series. In 2000 and 2003 the parts Leprechaun 5 - In the Hood and Leprechaun 6 - Back 2 the Hood also followed directly on video.

In March 2012, Lionsgate and WWE Studios announced that they would work together on a new edition of the film series. The short wrestler Dylan Mark Postl took on the leading role . Leprechaun: Origins thus represents the first part of the series without Warwick Davis. The film was released in American cinemas in August 2014 in a very limited manner and was also offered as video-on-demand.

In 2018 Leprechaun Returns was published, which is a continuation of the first part. Warwick Davies was not involved in this.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Leprechaun - The Killer Goblin . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2015 (PDF; test number: 70 402-a V).
  2. ^ Leprechaun (1993) - Weekend Box Office Results - Box Office Mojo . In: Box Office Mojo . Retrieved August 3, 2012.
  3. ^ Criticism on ReelViews
  4. ↑ Critique in the Washington Post
  5. ↑ Critique in the Los Angeles Times
  6. ↑ Leprechaun. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 9, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  7. ↑ Lionsgate pacts with WWE on film deal . Variety. Retrieved March 15, 2012.