Leprechaun 4: In Space is cheesy as hell, and that says a lot for a Leprechaun film. I don’t like horror films in space, like Hellraiser: Bloodlines. I do like Jason X, Alien, and Event Horizon though. Okay, maybe it just depends on the film. This one is made for SyFy levels of amazing. The cast is a who’s who of “Who are these people?”. Debbe Dunning is the most well known due to her role on Home Improvement as Heidi. We all adored her back then, and guys my age did more than that. Warwick Davis is the obvious mainstay. The rest of the cast, they aren’t well known, let’s go with that. I’m sure they tried hard.
My issues with horror films in space are many. But you are almost always guaranteed to have scientists and or space marines or something similar. Be more creative! This does succeed in a level of creativity. Maybe I will like Leprechaun 4 better this time around. Let’s start the film!
Start Film
Wow, the cover art for the digital version says “One small step for man…one giant leap of terror”. It’s a good thing that I will be stuffing my mouth with pickles. We could all use some pickles inside of us. What I just said is probably funnier than all but 2 jokes in this. I hope I am wrong.
Hey, space marines all going by their last names. They are on a search and destroy mission and something about mining. I forgot about that cliché. Hey, there’s a Dr. Reeves, and Sgt. Hooker is pissed. Hooker is so fucking cliché. Books has the responsibility to prepare Reeves and protect her.
Now we get Lep and Princess Zarina. Lep wants to be a king and make her his queen. The special effects, fucking hell. Lucky finds Lep’s gold and Lep takes him out with a green lightsaber. Lep is exploded via grenade. Kowalski pisses on Lep’s body. They are bringing back the princess who got injured. Harold appears to be homosexual. He’s another scientist who also works under Dr. Mittenhand.
Mittenhand is very demanding. Despite the soldiers’ contracts ending but Mittenhand is like, you will stay. Kowalski is gonna fuck Delores (Dunning) and she is in prime shape here. Just in her bra, still solid. Kowalski is having issues in his pants. Lep pops out of his penis and flies out. Then a John Wayne impersonation. Books failed at flirting with Tina, the female biologist. Sticks, the only black person in the film, just made fun of white guys dancing. Harold is now kissing and feeling up the princess and maybe he isn’t gay. He’s just a creeper.
Delores returns and now the marines go hunting, along with Tina. Mooch and Books have to go in a contamination and waste something something chamber. I opted to cut an apple rather than listen. And Lep is in there with them and he has a blade. Why does he need it if he has magical powers? Mooch just got murdered. Dr. Evil may be based entirely on Dr. Mittenhand who is only partially human. Very little is human. Is he even human at all? I don’t know. Lep just wants the princess and Sarge wants to just give her up since he’s now lost 3 men. Sarge makes a lot of sense.
Sarge negotiates a hell of a deal with Mittenhand. Sarge is absurd, but there is something endearing about him. Now they will split up into 3 pairs. We have the obvious Books and Tina pairing, Sarge and Delores, and Sticks with Danny, I think. Sticks’ locator isn’t working. Danny says they should just lay low and collect the bonus. Mittenhand and Harold have created a new finger. Good for them.
Delores asks Sarge if it was her fault that he died due to giving him a boner. Sarge says hell no, that’s how he wants to go out and Delores is excited. Sticks is doing some old-timey racial impersonation. Lep just handcuffed Books to a grate. I thought Metalhead was the sarge, but Books is a Seargent. So Tina has a great chance to be the final girl at this point. Yay. Danny runs away like a coward and is fucking over Sticks. Not cool, Danny. Sticks is arguably my second favorite character after Kowalski. Lep and Danny discuss being partners. Danny thinks that he’s gonna take out Lep but has some big metal thing dropped on him. Princess could also be the final girl. Hmmm, w have options. Mittenhand is excited to rejoin the human race again. Harold is easily my third favorite.
Delores is up next. She gets trapped as a door closes behind her. Delores shoots the shit out of Lep and explodes his body. They all celebrate. Lep then pieces himself back together. Delores is barely hanging off the walkway. Lep is slowly peeling her fingers off the walkway and then she falls. Only 2 women remain. HAHAHAHA “Get some” was just said twice. All we are missing is a “Stay frosty”. Wait, Delores survived long enough for the group to find her so she could say “kill him”. Now Tina is gonna act like a badass despite only knowing karate.
Someone is at Mittenhand’s door and Harold sees that it’s a very nude Tina, but without any good viewpoints. Aww, Harold just got hurt by Lep. Lep and Mittenhand finally meet and Mittenhand is pretty funny here. Harold comes to and has a blade. Mittenhand wants to make a deal with Lep and distracting Lep. Harold backstabs Lep. Lep turns around and smushes Harold’s face with a round tray. That was just silly. Now Mittenhand must be punished.
Lep wakes up the princess and has a ball gag in Mittenhand’s mouth. Now he going to fuck with Mittenhand’s DNA. He’s blending a spider and a scorpion with some blue shit. He injects this liquid into Mittenhand’s skull. Lep and Princess find this delightful. The Marines are in the lab. Sticks or Sarge are gonna get it next, I have to assume. Tina is getting burned by some chemicals. Now she has fewer clothes on. Sticks wants to kill Lep and Princess, but Tina says they can’t hurt the hostage.
Princess meets them all. Lep has attached explosives to Sarge. Princess talks about punishing them by showing them her sparkling tits. Huh. Enjoyable. Lep is now ordering Sarg around. Oh boy. Apparently, in Dominia, where she is princess, when she shows her breasts, it’s a death sentence. Also, Mittenhand is no longer there. Sarge is now dressed in drag and performing a dance routine. The fuck? Princess reveals that the gold is in the cargo bay. Sticks finally punches Sarge, so Sarge takes out nunchucks. He knocks out Books. Mittenhand is still alive as some scorpion type of creatures. Oh God, Tina just performed the worst karate ever and knocked Sarge to the ground. Oh, I guess it is Mittenspider. Sarge now has multiple personalities and a gun with a bayonet. Sarge electrocutes himself. He was a cyborg, come to find out.
Lep has set off the ship’s self destruct sequence. Detonation in 20 minutes. Mittenspider is pissed. Lep has placed a forcefield around the only escape ship. Sticks is going to try to find the code to stop the self destruct, but Mittenspider is in the room with him. Aww, Sticks gets assaulted by Mittenspider. Lep keeps letting the princess know that she is not pretty and he has fucked her face up, at least in the mirror. He gets sick of her shit and knocks her out and his gold appears to have been shrunk. Books and Tina find Lep. Now a terribly silly gunfight. Once again, remember, Lep has fucking magic. Sticks needs a password so Tina goes to kill Lep. Books gets shot. Lep forgets that Tina exists. She goes to shoot him, but it doesn’t fire. Lep just got shot by the opposite of shrink ray. We have a giant Lep. Lep now has a bigger penis. Clearly, that is the first thing you would check. Tina is now off to help Sticks
Books tries to take on Giant Lep. Tina is attacked by Mittenspider. Books trips like a scared girl in the woods running from Jason. Tina is crawling through vents. Self-destruction in 7 minutes. Sticks is still asking for help. Mittenspide rips off Tina’s pants and now she is in panties and a tank top. Does that sound familiar? Tina uses liquid nitrogen on Mittenspider. Wasn’t that something in Resident Evil 5, the video game? I am pretty sure of it. Tina destroys Mittenspider. Books finds the Princess. He asks her if she can walk, but she wants to be carried. Lep sees them. Princess is more fun in the second half of this film. Kinda funny.
The cargo bay door is opening. Lep is getting sucked into outer space where he explodes. 2 guys and 2 girls remain. One minute remains. 30 seconds. The password was “wizard”. There’s some 2001 sound and a giant middle finger. Where’s Princess? Wait, that’s it? What about Princess? God damnit!
End Film
To quote the Angry Video Game Nerd, what a shitload of fuck. It was bad, yes. But that ending. Just involve Princess in the end. You have 4 survivors, not 3. Also, Lep was really stupid in this one and I feel like Warwick wasn’t having fun. He said that part 3 was his most fun film. He got so many good lines in that one compared to this. This really does remind me of so many shitty made for SyFy originals though. I think the only thing missing was Kari Wuhrer. She may have been working on the film, Thinner, at the time. That was time better spent. That’s an underrated film.
For as cheesy as this was, this had some charm to it in some way. I didn’t like this, I never need to see it again, but it was fun at times. It could have been trimmed by 10-15 minutes, with ease.
Rating: 4.0 – This wasn’t much worse than part 3. Okay, yes it was. But there are some guilty pleasures in this film. While I was busy rolling my eyes, I was sometimes laughing. Still, I don’t recommend this one.
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