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Geek culture and St Patrick’s Day have never really been comfortable bedfellows. I’m not sure why that is, holidays, in general, tend to fit the geek aesthetic shockingly well. They’re all about strict color-coded palettes, they’ve got mascots and usually some degree of lore, but for whatever reason St. Patty’s has never found the home among the nerds that Christmas, Halloween, and others have secured.
Maybe it’s the emphasis on raucous social interaction putting people off- I couldn’t say. I will say that the one place where nerd culture and the ephemera of St. Patty’s- stereotypical Irish stuff, a handful of surface level Celtic folklore, four leaf clovers, and most importantly the holiday’s favorite mascot, combine is in the 1993 horror-comedy oddity Leprechaun.
There was a time everybody had heard of this flick though I think its ubiquity has faded as the video store era has evaporated from memory. However, there was an age when the Leprechaun franchise, a horror series based around the joke of having a little person dressed in a caricature of “Olde Irish” garb, was a powerful enough juggernaut to spawn five sequels and even a reboot, though we’ll get to that. So, with St. Patty’s upon us once more let’s dive into that misbegotten era that was the ‘90s for a full look at the Leprechaun film series.
