Leprechaun (film)
Leprechaun (film)
Leprechaun is a 1993 American horror comedy film written and directed by Mark Jones), and starring Warwick Davis in the title role, with Jennifer Aniston supporting. The film follows a vengeful leprechaun who believes a family has stolen his pot of gold. As he hunts them, they attempt to locate his gold to mollify him.
Leprechaun (film)
Originally intended as straight horror, Davis injected humor into his role, and reshoots added increased gore to appeal to older audiences. Leprechaun was the first in-house production at Trimark Pictures for theatrical exhibition; it earned a domestic gross of $8.556 million against a budget of roughly $900,000 and became a cult film. While reviews were negative, with critics lambasting both the direction and the characters and saying that the film is neither scary nor funny, the commercial success spawned a media franchise) with a sequel, Leprechaun 2, released theatrically the following year.
Plot
In 1983, Dan O'Grady returns to his home in North Dakota from a trip to his native Ireland, where he captured a leprechaun, who then gave him a pot of gold, in accordance with the leprechaun code. After burying the gold, O'Grady discovers that the leprechaun has followed him home and murdered his wife. O'Grady uses a four-leaf clover to suppress the leprechaun's powers and trap him inside a crate. Before he can burn him, the leprechaun makes O'Grady suffer a stroke.
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