Budget: less than 1million
Director: Mark Jones
When i first seen this film back in the late nineties I loved it, I watched it quite a few times and then I haven't seen it till recently. I have watched the entire series with this and the second one being my favorite of the bunch.
So we first meet the pint sized terror played by multi talented short person Warwick Davis of star wars Ewok fame. When he's followed Daniel O'Grady back from Ireland. Reason being that O'Grady has stolen the little mans pot of gold. There's 100 pieces and it's the source of the wee sprites magical and life force powers.
Tricking Dan's wife he kills her in pursuit of his gold. Dan finds out and traps the sprite in a box with the aid of a four leaf clover, apparently one of the only things that can combat and control his powers. Stupidly Dan tries burn the wee man in the box but being of advanced age the wee one uses the last of his powers to suggest that Dan has a stroke. He does then we cut to ten years on from that moment with a man and his daughter travelling to their new summer house.
The new summer place happens to be the O'Grady's place. The daughter happens to be a very young Jennifer Aniston in one of her first starring roles as Tory Redding. Also a bloody annoying one at that who just constantly moans and screams for most of her screen time.
She hates the place stating she doesn't want to stay there, she goes to leave kicking over a paint pot belonging to a young handyman Nathan. He has two people with him, Ozzie and his young brother Alex.
While tidying up the basement Ozzie accidentally frees the leprechaun when he pulls the same young kid in danger voice he used on Dan's wife. He sets about terrorizing the hapless quartet in his attempts to retrieve his gold. Alex and Ozzie find the gold a little later on Alex wants to use it to repair Ozzie's 'brain' (as Ozzie is a bit backwards) they chose not tell the others, especially when Ozzie has swallowed one by accident checking if was real.
So they keep evading the little man all around the grounds of the summer home, all the while he kills anyone who tries to come and help the kids. A little later Nathan suggests one of them go see old O'Grady who is still alive after his stroke on how to deal with the terror.
The Leprechaun finishes him off but not before he tells Tory that they need a four leaf clover to kill the little bastard. Tory whose been bitching about 'it can't be real' the whole movie has to believe that they can find one first while they are searching and magically they find one in the nick of time.
Not spoiling the ending but i guess you can tell they use the clover in some way to stop the sprite.
On more recent viewing I found this movie less coherent and a lot more annoying than i remembered, mainly Jen lol. it's still one of the best of the series by far, so just for that it deserves at least a strong three out of five
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