Jan 12, 2025
Summer School (1987)
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Summer School (1987)
APRIL FOOL'S DAY (1986)
Director: Fred Walton Cinematography: Charles Minsky
Have you seen Leprechaun (1993)?
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Horror Comedy of the Day: Leprechaun (1993)
1983, North Dakota. Dan O'Grady comes back from a trip overseas with a pot full of gold. Shortly after showing this to his wife, she gets murdered, for the true owner of this treasure followed him all the way. You see, in Ireland there's an old legend that talks of a pot of gold you can find at the end of the rainbow. If you manage to get there, it's yours to keep. But you got to be careful: the fae folk known as the Leprechaun will come for you to take it back.
10 years later, a teenage girl called Tory Redding, who's renting the farm house with her family has to fend this same creature off, as he has escaped the crate he was trapped in.
No, you read that correctly: someone made the old Irish folk tale you most likely associate with the Lucky Charms cereal into a horror film. One where Jennifer Aniston is fighting off Warwick Davis of Willow (1988) fame. And the end result is... kind of a glorious, silly mess.
As the film underwent production, it changed the tone multiple times, going from a more straightforward slasher film to a comedy film that might qualify for a PG rating, only to inject back some gore late in production. The pastiche shows: it's has the same kind of simplistic logic and gags you'd expect from a kids movie down to the musical score, while also being punctuated by (infrequent) blood levels that wouldn't be out of place in Friday the 13th, with the occasional burst of profanity on top.
But of course, we got to talk about the titular character: among an enthusiastic but not very robust cast, Warwick Davis took the role after a slow period in his career to show he had more range than the well meaning Nelwyn; he very clearly had a blast playing the smug, conniving little trickster, chewing the scenery wherever the opportunity arose.
It borders on being infantile but charmingly so, being very much unashamed of its ridiculousness. Fuck you, Lucky Charms indeed.
The cult classic ‘Leprechaun’ crept into theaters this day 30 years ago. 🍀📦☠️
“𝙰𝚑! 𝚃𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚖𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝, 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚜 𝚖𝚎 𝚐𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚠𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝.”
April Fool's Day (1986, dir. Fred Walton)
Day 30- A movie I (love to) hate
Leprechaun (1993)