Leprechaun 4: In Space (1997)

1996: the same year that saw Pinhead enter outer space for Hellraiser IV also saw Leprechaun exploring the vastness of the universe for the unimaginatively titled Leprechaun 4: In Space. Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, who also helmed Pt 3, this chapter once again stars Warwick Davis as a mischievous magical Leprechaun, only this time it's not his gold that he's after, but an alien princess who he hopes to marry so that he will become a king. Upsetting his plans are a group of Aliens-style space marines who rescue the princess, delivering her into the hands of mad scientist Dr. Mittenhand (Guy Siner), who intends to use her DNA to regenerate his damaged body.Once again, the order of the day is abject silliness, whether it be the leprechaun wielding a light-sabre, being born from a marine's penis, brandishing a space gun in a shootout, flattening a man's face with a frying pan, or growing to massive proportions. The film also delivers an incredibly gratuitous baring of a pair of breasts and gets its heroine, sexy Dr Reeves (Jessica Collins), down to her underwear for the finalé (her clothes ripped off by Dr. Mittenhand, who has mutated into a gigantic spider monster). Sadly, as much fun as all of this sounds, the countless scenes of characters wandering through cheaply constructed spacecraft corridors results in a film that is surprisingly mundane for much of the time.

This is a l lot better then you probably think it is. 3.4 is just underrating it. The first Leprechaun movie is better. Leprechaun 2 is better. Leprechaun 3 is also better. The sixth Leprechaun movie Leprechaun back 2 t.h.a hood is also better. But still this is a great movie. It is very scary. It has great acting. It also has a great story line. It also great special effects. This movie is scarier then A nightmare on elm street. It not easy to be scarier then A nightmare on elm street. Not the original 1984 version any way. This a very scary movie. Any one who knows a good horror movie will like it. This movie is a must see. Brent Jamer is a great actor.

If you read my review of "Leprechaun", "Leprechaun 2", and "Leprechaun 3" and wondered if Warwick Davies survived then welcome to your answer….. No, he died in the first, second and third film…. But Yes, he came back… this time in Space!Very similar to the other Leprechaun films but with the addition of Spaceships and Laser guns. Don't worry, the acting is still bad, the story is still irrelevant, the action is still embarrassing… If you did read my other reviews you'll get what I'm saying here.The Leprechaun convinces a space bint (Princess Zarina of the Dominian Republic) to follow him for marriage, she is a spoiled princess of a wealthy space family and kind of sees the benefit in attaining gold and wealth via greed - thus she is willing to listen and follow the Leprechaun. A rag tag bunch of space merc's are sent to recover and rescue her on behalf of a Scientist who you only ever see via Video link (I'll come onto him later). The space merc's are very much in the guise of the marines in the "Aliens" film but obviously a lot more camp and much more useless. They are convinced by the scientist that the Space Princess is important because her DNA is special so ultimately they take him serious and act out the contract as best as they can - until they are scared anyway. Some of the merc's live, some of the merc's die. I can't recall exactly how it happened but the merc's do recover the Space princess which leads the Leprechaun to hunt her down. Worried that the Leprechaun's power is too much the merc's attempt to cancel the contract only to be put back in line by the scientist who actually reveals himself. Much like "The Wizard of Oz" the scientist was just hiding behind a curtain (well a video screen) and pulling the strings. The scientist is not quite what the crew expected, from the waist down he is a robot. Now, if you have been wondering who the Scientist is because you recognise the voice let me take this opportunity to put you out of your misery, the robo- scientist is none other than Lieutenant Hubert Gruber (Guy Siner) from the TV series "Allo Allo". Yes that's right, Col Gruber is back, in space, and he's even got his "little tank" with him - albeit his tank is his robotic lower half. Leprechaun and Scientist eventually meet, they exchange insults and then one of them is injected with random space princess DNA which has been mixed with a spider and a scorpion. The film builds up to a finally which will see the Leprechaun fight all the good people of the spaceship. However, will he survive? Will he get his revenge, will he live beyond his revenge, and will somebody actually make another Leprechaun film?? Check back for my review of "Leprechaun 5 - Leprechaun in da Hood" to find out.

Don't you just hate it when a movie-series for no reason ventures into space. Lots of long running horror movie series did this and even James Bond did it with "Moonraker" but I have to say that this is probably one of the worst 'in space' sequels.This movie makes absolutely no sense. Why, for whatever reason, is the Leprechaun suddenly living on a far off planet in outer space? This movie has basically absolutely nothing to do with any of the previous movies and it doesn't ever slightly attempt to connect with any of them. No pot of gold in this one, no silly rhymes. Only thing that this movie has in common with all of the previous ones is that it stars Warwick Davis as the Leprechaun. At least he looked as if he was still having fun with it all.It's obviously of course also a far from original movie but this is not the biggest complaint. The movie could had really worked out and could had at least been entertaining fun to watch. It purely relies on its main premise of having the Leprechaun character set aboard a space craft this time. Sounds like an entertaining enough idea on its own, also since it has some space marines thrown in the mix but the movie just never works out and gets no way fun because it's all so poorly done. The movie is so bad that it's not even fun to watch. At least the other Leprechaun movies had some entertainment value in it but I only just wanted this movie to end. The movie has some bad characters, played by some equally bad actors. You just never care about any of them and you also just don't like them. They often do some very unlikely things, that just don't make sense once you start thinking about them. What exactly was the Guy Siner's character motivation, that obviously was an evil one but it made no sense what he did at the end, after his 'transformation'.It's a real cheap looking movie, with some plastic sets and some non-existing special effects. The make-up effects are still being as good as ever though.No way I ever want to watch this movie again.3/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/