Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Writers: David DuBos (writer)
Mark Jones (characters)
Cast---
Warwick Davis ...  Leprechaun
John Gatins ...  Scott McCoy
Lee Armstrong ...  Tammy Larsen
John DeMita ...  Fazio
Michael Callan ...  Mitch
Caroline Williams ...  Loretta
Marcelo Tubert ...  Gupta
Tom Dugan ...  Art

Runtime: 90 min
LEPRECHAUN 3 (1995)

It was a while before I actually got to this one. I had been watching other things and somewhat avoiding
it. I like to believe my love for bad movies has no bounds so I went ahead and took the leap. Let me start
off by saying that the Leprechaun doesn’t drive any kiddy cars or pogo sticks in this one. He is a bit
more aggressive (which is good), and the bad rhymes are a plenty but with this being the third
installment one seems to be numb to his crap. In this one the setting is Las Vegas and with it’s flashing
lights and colorful characters your carried through the mess relatively unharmed…relatively.

An agitated pirate-like guy with a peg leg and hook hand bursts into a Las Vegas pawn shop carrying a
life-size statue of our favorite green fiend. The statue has a medallion around it’s neck and when the
greedy pawn shop owner removes it the Leprechaun comes to life. He attacks the store owner biting off
a piece of his ear and a toe. In the scuffle the stupid Leprechaun drops a coin and can’t find it. The
pawn shop owner gets it and defends himself with the medallion from more Leprechaun attacks.
Medallions are now Leprechaun bane (well, this specific one), good to fucking know cause each movie
makes it’s own rules. I feel like a fool at times, I mean, come on, the people that made this shit don’t give
a damn for continuity , they’ve made that abundantly clear. So now a scared looking dork named Scott
McCoy on his way to college drives through Las Vegas to check stuff out. He stops to help an ample
bosomed sweetheart, Tammy, whose car won’t work. One thing leads to another and she gets him into a
casino where she works as a magician’s assistant.

At the casino Scott looses all of his money and goes to the pawn shop across the street (yes the same
one where…) to pawn his grandfather’s watch. He sees the pawn shop owner dead, picks up a
Leprechaun coin, makes a wish and bam he’s on a winning streak back at the casino. Leprechaun coins
now grant wishes ?! I must add a real funny scene when the Leprechaun is inside the casino and he
makes like 3 pounds of green Leprechaun shit sit on the hand of the head magician, the great Fazio.
Fazio sees that the kid (Scott) is winning and sneaks into his hotel room to steal the coin.  Just as Fazio
escapes the green midget attacks yet again biting the arm of Scott. Now you have all heard that when
you’re bit by a werewolf you become a werewolf. This film now wants to make us believe that the same is
true for Leprechauns. Scott now slowly becomes a tall Leprechaun. I don’t know why he didn’t shrink but
that’s fine. If I know my movies right, both Leprechauns will battle it out at the end, So the coin falls into
the hands of Fazio and the Casino owner, each making their wish. The casino owner lusts after Fazio’s
beautiful assistant Tammy and so he wishes to have her fall for him. Things make it as far as the
bedroom but before she’s done undressing the spell breaks cause some other person has the coin now
and is making a wish. Tammy leaves disgusted but the Leprechaun is hiding in the room and makes an
unattractive topless blonde who comes out of a television set  seduce him. Now if that wasn‘t weird
enough the blonde girl turns into a metal robot and electrocutes the horny bastard. You see the craziest
things in direct to video horror flicks !

Meanwhile Scott is turning into a Leprechaun and is tempted by the pot of gold. Tammy helps him snap
out of it and takes him to a hospital to see if he can get any help. Things get worse. The action moves
back into the Casino where Fazio is performing amazing magic. When it was his turn to wish he wished
to be a great magician. The Leprechaun serves it, lunatic style. I didn’t think you’d see it but yes. The
Leprechaun saws Fazio in half and you see great sprays of blood and the gory insides when the box is
open and we see Fazio is in fact sawed in two. Now for the last disgrace of continuity. In this film you kill
a Leprechaun by burning his pot of gold. The pot is probably made out of iron and burning or melting
gold is not that easy. In the final showdown Scott must choose between being a regular guy with a hot
girlfriend or take the pot of gold from the dwarf and then fight him I guess. He decides to burn the gold
therefore killing our Leprechaun bastard and kiss the beautiful Tammy. Happy ending !

As I reflect back upon this film I realize how bad it was. I’m not sure if even being drunk could make this
film easy to swallow. The thing here is that the elements, though screwy could be fun and enjoyable. But
either the filmmakers have no talent or don’t give a shit about these films. I must be insane because I
plan to review the rest in the series. I like to see how much I could endure. I share my discomfort with
you.

                                                                                                        - Jorge Antonio Lopez
Leprechaun 3 (1995)
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