Leprechaun 3

The owner of a Pawn shop in Las Vegas recieves a statue of a Leprechaun from a mysterious customer, who urges him not to remove the medallion that is wrapped around it. Of course, the manager of the store disregards his advice, and learns the hard way that he should have listened when the Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) materialises in his shop. Meanwhile Scott (John Gatins) is driving into Las Vegas on the way to college when he meets Tammy, who takes him to the casino where she works where he blows his entire cheque of college money.

The Lep goes after the Trimark exec that sent him straight to video.

He is told to go to a pawn shop nearby, which happens to be the same pawn shop visited by the Leprechaun, and he finds the owner of the store dead. He also finds a gold coin, which brings him mysterious luck on the roulette wheel. Unfortunately, the Leprechaun wants his coin back, and chases Scott to his hotel room, just after the coin is stolen by Fazio.

When the Leprechaun tries to bite Scott, and the blood of the Lep gets mixed into the wound, Scott starts to turn into a Lep aswell. While the coin is begin passed from owner to owner, the real Leprechaun chases each person and dispatches them in gruesome ways, which leads to a showdown with both Leps, who are EXTREMELY territorial...

The infamous "LepShit" scene.

This film was not released in the UK, and when I started this site, so it was difficult for me to eventually get a copy. So all the stuff I read about sort of hyped it up in my mind. But when I saw this film I wasn't disappointed at all. This film I consider to be almost as good as the second film. It probably has more memorbale scenes and quotes than any of the Lep films, but is seriously hampered by its slow pace.

This movie has probably the best death scenes all of the movies (but the single best one is in Lep 4, more of that later..). My favourite is when a woman asks to be beautiful, and the Leprechaun decides to turn her into Pamela Anderson times 100 by inflating her boobs, butt and lips until she explodes. The film also has some great characters besides the Leprechaun, unlike the first 2 movies. Fazio the magician is one, you gotta love the little dance he does while doing his magic show :) And the lepshit scene (see above) is priceless..... There are some really dumb lines in the movie though. Click here to here my favourite..

Fazio!

The thing that gets on my nerves though, is the sideplot about a guy who gets bitten by the Leprechaun, and gets Lepblood in the wound, whihc causes him to mutate into a half-Leprechaun himself. They guy is no great actor to begin with, and when he starts spouting those rhymes...... The direction by Brian Trenchard-Smith is good, he also directed the great cheesefest Night Of The Demons II, which is great fun. And the music is good for a movie of its nature.

The Lep gets all excited about the Las Vegas casinos.

So, overall, this film is just as good as Part 2 and streets ahead of part 1.

FACTS

The film was originally planned to be Leprechaun 3-D! Obviously this idea was stopped at some point (but it woulda been fun tho :))

This film was not released at all in England, for no apparent reason.

This was the first of the Leprechaun films to go straight to video in the US, after the relative failure of Leprechaun 2 at the box-office.

The movie stars Caroline Williams, who is well known to genre fans as Stretch from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 (The only decent sequel in my opinion).

The director, Brian Trenchard-Smith, also directed Leprechaun 4.

I could really do with a bigger scan of the video cover, if you have a scanner and the video, please scan it and send it to me in an email. I'll give you full credit.

Principal Cast

Warwick Davis	Leprechaun
John Gatins	Scott
Lee Armstrong	Tammy
Marcelo Tubert	Gupta
John DeMita	Fazio
Caroline Williams	Loretta
Michael Callan	Mitch

Music by

Dennis Michael Tenney

Written by

David Dubos

Directed by

Brian Trenchard-Smith