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How did this trash spawn 5 sequels?


I watched this movie for the first time a few weeks ago. As a kid, I saw it in the video store and I (being of Irish decent) was intrigued by the premise. I also assumed that if a movie had 6 installments, the first movie HAD to be good. Boy, was I wrong! The acting was abysmal, the special effects were laughable, and the plot was nonexistent. It wasn't even "funny scary!"

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Cause you were born.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TzcANOHiDo

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lol It doesn't really matter who I reply too since they all just go to the bottom try changing your settings to flat it's the only smart way to look at these boards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TzcANOHiDo

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Actually, it does matter. When you click on the 'reply' box in a specific post, your reply is emailed to the person who posted it, therefore Mark1985 was letting you know that you replied to the wrong person. lol

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People don't make movies like this to win awards. This film was exactly what most people should have expected of it, cheesy, trashy, cheap horror. Watching Warwick Davis run was funnier than any of the jokes his character told. This movie was made to make people laugh at the ridiculous, that's why there's so many installments.

I mean come on! It's a film about a murderous leprechaun! How impressive did you expect it to be.

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I agree. But I would also put this movie in the so bad it’s actually kind of good category. I liked this movie and the titles that come after it are hilarious..so hilarious you end up watching it just because. Come on… who doesn’t want to watch a movie called Leprechaun in the Hood or Leprechaun in Space?

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I think it's great it got so many sequels!! I mean there just isn't enough never ending So bad it's good (craptastic) film series out there! Heres to more sequels

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I think that it was this movie that scared me when i was like between ages 4-6.

or it could have been another movie - all i remember was little elf/drawf/leprechun things coming out of the woods/trees, and a small white picket fence. and possibly a "tree house" type thing.

- anyway i really didnt like riding in the car at night on the way back from my nana's house (on the backroads [not as bad as it sounds]); i was scared that it was going to be on top of the car looking at me outside the windows.

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I think you may be thinking of Ernest Scared Stupid.

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I wondered the same thing. It cost 900,000 dollars and made that money many times over, so that is the main reason. I say check out TROLL 2 instead.

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Easy. This film cost $900000 to make and grossed over $8.5 million. Why wouldn't you want to make 1, 2 or 5 sequals that did that?

Also, these movies are GOLD!

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