Man, here's a scenario I'm sure you're familiar with. You're browsing through the video store and you see a whole bunch of sequels to a movie....for instance: WARLOCK 3, 5, 8, etc. So, that's what happened when I looked upon the shelf and saw the LEPRECHAUN saga. I figured that I should check out the first. Man, was this film not worthy of sequels, or even of being featured in a video store. It has only two redeeming features: an inventive death, and real evidence that Jennifer Aniston can't act.

O.K., here's the plot. It's thin, real thin, we're talking anorexic. Basically a family moves to the country to a house with an evil Leprechaun in the basement. Throw in a couple wacky painters, some idiot cops, and bam, you've got a movie. Not quite.

The leprechaun, played by Warwick Davis, famous as the little dude in WILLOW, was placed in this basement years ago by one of his enemies armed with a three-leafed clover. Of course, when this city-family arrives to the home, they set the little dude free. Now, tell me if this sounds scary to you: a little green midget obsessed with cleaning shoes. Ooooh, there's a great horror plot. What idiot came up with that two-bit idea.

And therein lies the problem of LEPRECHAUN. It's not just that it's not scary, since most horror movies aren't. Half of the fun of bad horror movies is that you can see why they thought it might be scary, but it just isn't. With LEPRECHAUN you can't even understand how the filmmakers thought it would be scary. In fact, the scariest thing about this movie is Jennifer Aniston. Better known for her role on the TV show "Friends," Aniston is good on that show probably because she plays a ditzy person. But, the fact of the matter is that she is downright awful in this movie. In one moment where she attempts to defend her feminine strength, either she improvised a lame line or made it sound like she improvised it. It's the kind of moment which makes you wonder if an editor was even used on the film, since it should have ended up on the cutting room flor.