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SOURCE-Lionsgate Blu ray
Yep the mostly shit upon 90s horror frachise. And this is the most shit upon entry in the series. But it is my 2nd favorite film in this series.
When the first Leprechaun film came out I loved it. Saw it in a theater. Then not that many months later it was airing at least once a week on Showtime. Sure now it is mostly remembered for being an early role for Jennifer Anniston,for me I find it to be a fun and interesting horror film. Sure my generation grew up with leprechauns as a kind of mystic creatures that are all fun and wackiness. But going back to the Irish legends that created the Leprechauns you will see they were evil tricksters. And Leprechaun brought the creature back to it's roots,kind of like how Wishmaster took the Genie/Djinn and made that back into the evil trickster demon it started out as.
After Leprechaun 3 being set in Vegas it was time to change up the scenery some. The plan was with part 3 to end the franchise. And since 3 didn't do well at the box office it appeared that was the end. But the home video market saved the franchise. Seems Leprechaun 3 was a huge hit on home video and cable. So a couple of years later,and from what I can find going direct to video,Leprechaun 4 was made.
Now I had no clue this film was happening. Mostly because I had stopped reading Fangoria. It was around Thanksgiving and like I had many many times before at that time of year I was up in rural Mississippi for a week. Visiting friends of my parents. Normally I hated going up there cause they had just an antenna for tv. But they had just got DISH Network. So knowing this in advance I brought with a stack of blank VHS. And spent 9 days recording a pile of movies off the various movie channels they got.
It was the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Dad and his buddy were home at lunch from deer hunting. Mom and her friend had went to town to shop. I saw Leprechaun in Space listed as airing on TMC . Turned it on and had a blast watching it with dad and Tony. We sat there drinking a few beers and just laughing.
Directed by Australian director Brian Trinchard Smith ,pretty sure he also directed the 3rd film,Leprechaun 4 is pretty much Aliens. But with Warwick Davis as the killer Irish midget in place of the Xenomorphs.
Our group of Space Marine track down the Leprechaun and kill him early on in the film. Then one marine decides to piss on the corpse of the title villain. We see a green spark go from the corpse up the piss stream and assuming it enters the Marine' penis.
Back on their ship this marineis hooking up with Debbie Dunning,yep the lady that replaced Pam Anderson as the Tool Time Girl on Home Improvement. They are having sex when Leprechaun explodes out of the male marine's dick and now we got the midget killer loose on this space ship.
We are never told how the Leprechaun gets from Vegas to Space. And while the timeline of the Leprechaun films is all over the place,I am just assuming this film happens way way in the future. But really I don't care that we aren't told how we got from the ending of the 3rd film to this film.
By this point in the franchise all I want out of the films is some decent gory kills. And some decent laughes. Lep in space provided this. A bonus is it has that kind of odd 2000 AD way of sc fi that I have noticed Brian Trenchard Smith puts in most of his films.
Leprechaun in Space aka Leprechaun 4 gets a B+
