Underplayed Gems

Leprechaun Returns (2018)

Leprechaun Returns poster
Directed by
Steven Kostanski
Genre
comedy film, horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
R
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 661 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young woman moves into her late mother's old house and finds herself pursued by the leprechaun her mother trapped in a well 25 years ago. She and her sorority sisters must outsmart the murderous creature as it uses dark magic to hunt them.

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What happens

Leprechaun Returns is a comedy horror film directed by Astron-6's Steven Kostanski, from a screenplay by Suzanne Keilly. It is the eighth installment in the Leprechaun franchise and a direct sequel to 1993's Leprechaun which disregards the events of the previous five sequels, similarly to its contemporary Halloween. The film stars Taylor Spreitler as the daughter of Tory Redding from the original film, who encounters the title creature 25 years after her mother trapped it in a well (a retcon from the original film, in which Nathan and Alex Murphy knocked the leprechaun into the well and destroyed the well). Warwick Davis elected not to return as the Leprechaun, and Linden Porco took over the role for this film. It’s an international co-production between Canada, the United States and South Africa. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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