On a distant planet, a power hungry Leprechaun kidnaps a Dominian princess, Princess Zarina, and plans to make himself king, but not if a bumbling brigade of space marines have anything to say about it. Their commander is a mad scientist by the name of Dr. Mittenhand, who’s half machine thanks to one of his “experiments”. Once on the planet, Leprechaun is blown up, but quickly is reborn through one of the marines (ala Alien) and wreaks havoc aboard the ship, meanwhile Dr. Mittenhand plans to use the princess for his experiments to make himself whole again. But now, after many of the marines are killed, Leprechaun turns Dr. Mittenhand into a grotesque monster and plans to blow up the ship. The remaining marines have to stop his evil plans and blow him up. —IMDb
Brian Trenchard-Smith (born 1946) is an English film and television director, producer, writer, consultant and actor who is notable for his contributions to the horror and action genre during the 1970s and 1980s in Australia. Most of his work has been in television, and the majority of his films have been direct-to-video releases. He generally works in the drama, action and horror genres. He has directed 42 movies and TV series including Turkey Shoot, Dead End Drive-In, The Man from Hong Kong, and Leprechaun 4: In Space.
In addition, he also has been credited by Quentin Tarantino as one of his favorite directors.
Trenchard-Smith blogs once a week at Film Industry Bloggers an online Blogging community of professionals who work throughout the world’s TV and film communities. His category is as The Genre Director. —wikipedia