Leprechaun Returns

"Be careful what you wish for."

2018 1h 33m EN

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★6.1TMDB · 668

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Synopsis

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A group of unwitting sorority sisters accidentally awaken the serial-killing Leprechaun after they build a sorority house on his hunting grounds.

“Be careful what you wish for.”

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Cast

Taylor Spreitler
Lila
Pepi Sonuga
Katie
Sai Bennett
Rose
Emily Reid
Meredith
Ben McGregor
Andy
Oliver Llewellyn Jenkins
Matt
Mark Holton
Ozzie
Linden Porco
The Leprechaun

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Steven Kostanski
Writers: Suzanne Keilly
Languages: English
Countries: South Africa, United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Shot for just $1.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 8 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: South Africa, United States of America.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Leprechaun Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Steven Kostanski, shot by Trevor Calverley. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Andries Smit. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Christopher Minns shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Taylor Spreitler and Pepi Sonuga and Sai Bennett carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Steven Kostanski directs. Trevor Calverley behind the camera. Andries Smit scores. Christopher Minns cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in South Africa, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Shot for just $1.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Released 8 years ago.
3International production across 2 countries: South Africa, United States of America.
4Part of the "Leprechaun Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Steven Kostanski, shot by Trevor Calverley. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Andries Smit. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Christopher Minns shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Taylor Spreitler and Pepi Sonuga and Sai Bennett carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Be careful what you wish for.".
10IMDB entry: tt8155182 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 21 themes, including "gold", "monster", "killing", "college".

The technical file

Cinematography: Trevor Calverley
Original score: Andries Smit
Editing: Christopher Minns
Production design: Bobby Cardoso
Makeup / hair: Brenda Snguon
VFX supervisor: Rory Mark
Sound: Barry Donnelly
Stunt coordinator: Antony Stone
Runtime: 93 min · 1h 33m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $1,500,000
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Leprechaun Returns (2018)

Part of

Leprechaun Collection

An American comedic horror film series centered around a malevolent and murderous leprechaun, who, when his gold is taken from him, resorts to any means necessary to reclaim it.

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Steven Kostanski

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Gimly2020-05-19
★ 5/10
How bizarre is it that the only Leprechaun movie that has any sort of continuity to the original, is also the only one that doesn't have the same actor playing the titular leprechaun. This one's actually not too bad though. The new guy does a pretty good job in those tiny little shoes. Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.
Dark Jedi2022-03-01
★ 4/10
Since I’m on sick leave recovering from surgery I had last week and pretty immobile not to mention bored as hell I’ve of course been using up a fair amount of streaming bandwidth. The more bored, the poorer my choices have been so last evening, I am sad to say, I turned on the brain dead gore feast that goes under the name Leprechaun Returns. This is a SyFy “exclusive” so of course my hopes were pretty low from the start but what the hell, I felt like watching a gore feast so… Well, to sum it up, it was pretty bad. Worse however, the movie felt like a really missed opportunity. There were some bits that was actually cool or at least somewhat funny but the movie as a hole was ruined by really shitty script writing and pretty mediocre acting. The story could of course be written in a few paragraphs. It’s paper thin but I guess, for this kind of movie, it is adequate. There are the usual characters of course, the sexy chick, the dumbass alcoholic chick, some suitably unintelligent guys that doesn’t think about anything than sex and so on. In this movie they added a naïve eco-fanatic that cannot act and just grates on you. The heroin is probably the only character that is moderately normal. Then there’s the Leprechaun of course. He is pretty much the only thing that makes the movie worthwhile to watch. He was actually quite cool. A perfect character for a horror/comedy. Unfortunately everything else was mostly rubbish. The constant harping by the eco-lunatic about having to work, the constant boozing by the dumbass chick. And how many times did the sexy chick say that she wouldn’t sleep with the dumbest of the guys and then did it anyway? I lost count. Of course we also had the usual moments of stupidity that only a really shitty Hollywood script writer can produce. For instance the guy that was just standing there staring at the drone coming closer and closer for minutes. A drone capable of cutting through not just the throat but the entire f… neck with its propellers of someone just added to the stupidity of course. At least there were some moments which was satisfying. Like when the dumbass chick that thought she made a deal in her alcohol haze learned “not lay a hand on you” is not the same thing as “not kill you”. Then as I wrote, a lot of the scenes with the Leprechaun was rather funny. So it is a bit sad actually. With a half decent story/script writer this could have been a quite decent, maybe even good, comedy/horror movie. Now it will just be relegated the the growing heap of SyFy junk movies.
GenerationofSwine2023-01-12
★ 1/10
I guess the jokes didn't land so... It doesn't really feel like part of the franchise when it doesn't have that mix of absurd humor and horror. It felt almost cute and not ridiculous and I left it feeling robbed