To children, leprechauns have an innocent reputation of being the supernatural creature printed on the Lucky Charms cereal box. To director Mark Jones, leprechauns were a bit more devious. As the horror-comedy franchise Leprechaun makes its way to streaming on Hulu for its “Huluween” event this spooky season, Jones looks back on creating the Warwick Davis and Jennifer Aniston-led film that spawned seven movies.Warwick Davis plays the titular role, where he hunts down civilians on a farm for a pot of gold he believes they stole. Leprechaun was also Aniston’s film debut before she became famous on the highly acclaimed and popular television series Friends. In an interview with CBR, director, and writer Mark Jones talked about how he took a low budget, a charismatic cast, and a mischievous vision to create the 1993 film and hinted at another Leprechaun installment in the future.Mark Jones: Well, it did very well down the road. It was funny when it first came out, I think, not a lot of critics understood what I was doing, which was not taking ourselves seriously [as] a comedy. They kind of compared it to Exorcist and things like that. So the critics killed me. But the people showed up at the theaters, and it got popular on the VHS. So I feel somewhat vindicated because I really did go in the direction that I think the fans love. It financially helped me because they did eight of them, and I have interest in all of them, so it did well for me. It got me sort of into the horror genre.
To children, leprechauns have an innocent reputation of being the supernatural creature printed on the Lucky Charms cereal box. To director Mark Jones, leprechauns were a bit more devious. As the horror-comedy franchise Leprechaun makes its way to streaming on Hulu for its “Huluween” event this spooky season, Jones looks back on creating the Warwick Davis and Jennifer Aniston-led film that spawned seven movies.
Warwick Davis plays the titular role, where he hunts down civilians on a farm for a pot of gold he believes they stole. Leprechaun was also Aniston’s film debut before she became famous on the highly acclaimed and popular television series Friends. In an interview with CBR, director, and writer Mark Jones talked about how he took a low budget, a charismatic cast, and a mischievous vision to create the 1993 film and hinted at another Leprechaun installment in the future.
Mark Jones: Well, it did very well down the road. It was funny when it first came out, I think, not a lot of critics understood what I was doing, which was not taking ourselves seriously [as] a comedy. They kind of compared it to Exorcist and things like that. So the critics killed me. But the people showed up at the theaters, and it got popular on the VHS. So I feel somewhat vindicated because I really did go in the direction that I think the fans love. It financially helped me because they did eight of them, and I have interest in all of them, so it did well for me. It got me sort of into the horror genre.
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