{"id":13874,"date":"2026-01-19T21:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=13874"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:08:16","slug":"leprechaun-back-2-tha-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2026\/01\/19\/leprechaun-back-2-tha-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha\u2019 Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha\u2019 Hood<\/strong> (2003)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lionsgate\/Comedy-Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 90 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (violence, pervasive language, drug use, some sexuality)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Steven Ayromlooi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Steven Ayromlooi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Michael Whittaker\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: David Daniel\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: December 30, 2003 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Warwick Davis, Tangi Miller, Laz Alonso, Page Kennedy, Sherrie Jackson, Donzaleigh Abernathy, Sheik Mahmud-Bey, Sticky Fingaz, Keesha Sharp, Sonya Eddy, Beau Billingslea, Chris Murray, Vickilyn Reynolds, Willie C. Carpenter.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: N\/A<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: *<\/p>\n

\u00a0I guess there was nowhere else for Leprechaun to go after Leprechaun in the Hood so he went back to hood in Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha\u2019 Hood<\/strong>. The second visit isn\u2019t as fun as the first. In fact, it pretty much sucks.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The sixth installment of the series is the last to star Warwick Davis (Willow) in the title role. I\u2019m guessing he finally had enough of the makeup, prosthetics and dopey dialogue spoken in an Irish brogue. I say he did one too many. I didn\u2019t even see it when it came out on video\/DVD in late 2003. I realize how shocking it is to hear Movie Guy wasn\u2019t all over this one, but I just couldn\u2019t summon up any interest. I didn\u2019t even bother with it when it played on cable. I don\u2019t even know when it came on cable. I simply had no interest in it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Written and directed by some cat named Steven Ayromlooi (the rom-com My Girlfriend\u2019s Back), Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha\u2019 Hood<\/strong> is NOT a sequel to the previous entry even though it takes place somewhere in urban L.A. (NOT Compton!). It has no connection at all to any of the other movies, but that\u2019s the way it\u2019s been with all of them. The only commonality is Leprechaun, an evil little bugger forever on the warpath because somebody\u2019s always trying to steal his Lucky Charms. Oops, wrong leprechaun. I mean his pot of gold.<\/p>\n

\u00a0We open with some nonsense about an ancient king summoning leprechauns to protect his gold. When he dies, they return from whence they came, all but one. Guess which one? Cut to present day L.A. with a pastor (Carpenter, Hard Target) going at it with Leprechaun over his bag of gold. The holy man wants to use it to fund a youth center; Leprechaun isn\u2019t having any of it. The pastor manages to banish his adversary to the bowels of hell using holy water laced with clovers, but at the expense of his own life. The location of the hiding place of the gold dies with him.<\/p>\n

\u00a0One year later, the youth center project has stalled due to lack of funds. Community indifference appears to be a factor as well. However, that is NOT the focus of Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha\u2019 Hood<\/strong>. Ayromlooi instead centers the story on four young black people- Emily (Miller, Felicity), her drug-dealing ex Rory (Alonso, Miracle at St. Anna), her bestie Lisa (Jackson) and goofball pothead Jamie (Kennedy, The Meg 1 & 2)- trying to survive a bleak existence in the crime-ridden, economically depressed hood. The girls visit a fortune teller (civil rights activist Abernathy) who warns them the great wealth they\u2019re about to attain comes at a high price.<\/p>\n

\u00a0While picnicking at the youth center site, Emily falls through a hole in the ground. Guess what she finds? Yep, Leprechaun\u2019s gold. The friends split it four ways and start spending it. In doing this, they release Leprechaun back in the mortal world where he proceeds to go after the crooks who have his property. A malevolent mythological being isn\u2019t their only worry. Rival drug dealer Watson (Bey, Night Falls on Manhattan) and his gang are after Rory for the usual reasons. Also, there\u2019s a pair of racist cops, Thompson (Billingslea, Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later) and Whitaker (Murray, The Pelican Brief), dogging them. It\u2019s a safe bet that they\u2019ll all encounter Leprechaun before the end credits roll.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lenient with the Leprechaun movies. They\u2019re junk, to be sure, but I enjoyed them. I even liked the one…. IN SPACE!!! [Still funny] I did not like Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha\u2019 Hood<\/strong>. It didn\u2019t find it fun or funny. I found it belabored. Even Warwick seems bored with the whole killer leprechaun thing. And I might as well get this out of the way now. The acting is terrible all around. Nobody seems to be having fun for real. It all feels forced.<\/p>\n

\u00a0That\u2019s not to say I disliked everything about Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha\u2019 Hood<\/strong>. It has a few okay things in it. Some of the kill scenes are decent. Somebody gets their heart ripped out. There\u2019s a bloody punch to the gut. Another victim gets stabbed with a billy club. Leprechaun tears a guy\u2019s leg off and puts it to good use later when driving a car. A woman has her lower jaw torn off. The topper has to be the stoner who gets impaled with a bong. As a former pothead, I didn\u2019t know whether to laugh or cry.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The other thing I liked was the hollow point bullets laced with clover. Rory comes up with the idea. He uses this ammo in the final standoff with Leprechaun. Why didn\u2019t anybody think of this before? Doesn\u2019t clover grow in North Dakota? I know you can\u2019t find it…. IN SPACE!!! [I know, I need to stop]<\/p>\n

\u00a0There are two more Leprechaun movies in the series, the reboot Leprechaun: Origins (2014) and the retcon sequel Leprechaun Returns (2018). I don\u2019t plan on watching them. They don\u2019t have Warwick Davis and I\u2019m sure they\u2019re all CGI. I don\u2019t want to soil my good memories of the earlier ones from the 90s with their great cheap practical effects. For me, the series ends with Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha\u2019 Hood<\/strong>. I just wish it was a high note.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha\u2019 Hood (2003)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lionsgate\/Comedy-Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 90 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (violence, pervasive language, drug use, some sexuality)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Steven Ayromlooi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Steven Ayromlooi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Michael Whittaker\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: David Daniel\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: December 30, 2003 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Warwick Davis, Tangi Miller, Laz Alonso, Page Kennedy, Sherrie Jackson, Donzaleigh Abernathy, Sheik Mahmud-Bey, Sticky Fingaz, Keesha […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movies","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Leprechaun-Back-2-Tha-Hood.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13878,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874\/revisions\/13878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}