I’ve endured “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, “Friday The 13th”, “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Child’s Play” but now here comes “Leprechaun”. It’s a horror movie that is even worse than your average slasher flick, one so bad it joins other abysmal horror pictures such as “Troll 2”.

In “Leprechaun”, a nasty little Leprechaun (Warwick Davis “Willow”, “Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi”) is out to get his gold coins back and he’ll kill anybody that stands in his way. If you’ve seen any of the horror movies I mentioned earlier, you’ll know what to expect in principle but the execution in “Leprechaun” in somehow even worse.

The Leprechaun himself is very much a visual mixture of Chucky from “Child’s Play” and Freddy Krueger from “A Nightmare On Elm Street”, he even does that thing where he comes through the phone that Krueger did (if you’ve seen the picture with Krueger, you’ll know what I’m referring to). He’s arguably the worst slasher villain I’ve ever seen; his personality is so annoying that you’ll be missing the silence of Jason Voorhees from “Friday The 13th”. Jennifer Aniston (“Picture Perfect”) stars as the female lead and she’s horrendous. The rest of the characters are even dumber than the ones in your average slasher film.

“Leprechaun” isn’t remotely scary, funny, enjoyable or anything like that, it is more of an endurance test for those that have successfully sat through films such as “Friday The 13th”. If a movie such as “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is a low-grade horror film then “Leprechaun” sits firmly at the bottom of the grading system. Is it as bad as “Troll 2”? I don’t know, I don’t really care… I think have better things to do. If you do some research, you’ll quickly discover there are actually a ton of “Leprechaun” films (though most did not make it into theatres) and right there, you see the biggest problem with the entire film industry.