10 Awful Horror Movies With One Brilliant Kill

9. Leprechaun 3 - Loretta

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Played by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II's Caroline Williams, Loretta's death is likely the only redeeming part of Leprechaun 3.

Truth be told, none of the eight Leprechaun movies to date are all that good, but this is clearly a franchise that has often tended to lean more towards gimmicks than quality - as highlighted by simply looking at the titles of Leprechaun 4: In Space, Leprechaun in the Hood and Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood.

While it didn't have a gimmicky title like those aforementioned pictures, Leprechaun 3 took its eerie action to the bright lights of Las Vegas.

During these travels, Warwick Davis' titular Lubdan encounters the body conscious Loretta. With a magic gold coin in her possession, Loretta wished to be young and beautiful... and so, her lips pucker and swell, her breasts grow bigger, and her backside likewise expands.

It's only when she tries to exit the room does Loretta die, mind, with her bloated body exploding when her butt is pierced by the door handle. Also, some sort of credit has to go to the Leprechaun here for imaginatively rhyming "slut" with "butt" as part of this whole sequence.

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