Flicks: Leprechaun (1993)

Ack! No, no, no, Lassie, all us Leprechauns are hung like bog trolls - I swear!

The popularity of evil Irish gnomes reached an all-time high in darkened theaters across this great nation in the early nineteen nineties as the Leprechaun series propelled itself into the dim imaginations of the American movie going public.

Marc Wilson's Leprechaun (1993) operates on the logic that not all leprechauns are made alike - in fact, some are dastardly, bloodthirsty, horny little bastards. Warwick Davis stars in the title role of the Leprechaun who is after his missing pot o' gold - what else? The Leprechaun carves up a series of inept, hapless yuppies along the way, including a luckless 24-year-old Jennifer Aniston.


After a night of hard drinkin', the Leprechaun develops a four-leaved variety of "indigestion".

After the original Leprechaun movie raked in $8.5 million on a $900,000 production budget, in true Hollwood fashion, a total of 5 more Leprechaun sequels were made including Leprechaun 4 : In Space (1997). In 2003, a remake of Leprechaun 3, titled Leprechaun 2: Back 2 The Hood (the sixth in the series) was released capitalizing on the well known fact that leprechauns and crackheads are natural enemies.



References:
Wikipedia, Leprechaun (film)
IMDB, Leprechaun
Head Injury Theater, Leprechaun

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Flicks: Troll (1986)

Torok the Troll demands your vote for building Super!

Torok the Troll hates the city of Chicago. Who can really blame him for it? Even trolls got standards, see? Torok, awful upset about all the urban blight and vapid yuppies in the Windy City, makes it his own personal mission to adopt an aggressively eco-friendly Green domestic policy. Torok goes about transforming the residents of a scummy Chicago apartment building into an assortment of mythological entities while merrily greening up the joint. Torok has a bit of a green thumb dontcha know.


Julia Louise-Dreyfus works the druish shiksa angle pretty hard in Troll (1986).

As the movie progresses, it becomes painfully clear that Sonny Bono, June "Lassie" Lockhart or Michael Moriarty are not what you would call "good actors". They spend 90 minutes hamming it up in this John Carl Buechler pic (pronounced Beekler, director of Ghoulies 3). Buechler is widely known for his films that feature great practical effects and truly awfull scripts. Yet, in true Hollywood fashion, two sequels were made entitled Troll 2 (1990) and Troll 3: The Crawlers (1993) in which Torok's people pursue ever harsher implementation of Green politics and misanthropic shenanigans.



References:
Wikipedia, Troll (film)
IMDB, Troll (1986)

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