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Leprechaun Origins (2014)
Topic Started: Apr 10 2013, 06:53 AM (2,050 Views)
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Is it too late to get Christopher Nolan to direct this? Back in March is was officially announced that WWE would be producing Leprechaun: Origins, a remake of Leprechaun for Lionsgate, and that WWE wrestler Hornswoggle had been cast in the title role. It was also announced that Lionsgate and WWE Films had hired Harris Wilkinson to write the script.

Recently Crave spoke to WWE president Michael Luisi, who offered, “The tone is going to be a little darker, a little more traditional horror than the Warwick Davis ones that people remember, trying to find a way to please fans of that genre but at the same time this is really being played for scares.”

Luisi also conceded that the script is still in development. I’d like to note here that Wilkinson will have been given roughly 500% more time to write the new Leprechaun movie than Darabont was given to write the new Godzilla draft.
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I can never handle watching more than two of these in one day so I don't see myself having a marathon. I might just hit the highlights (1, 3, Back 2 Tha Hood) and leave it at that, with a forced-viewing of this either this month or in March or whenever it doesn't seem as painful.
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I have a new least favorite film of 2014. It is easily dull and generic enough to be the worst entry in this series, which is saying something. The random SyFy movie about a killer Leprechaun they brought out a couple years ago was even better than this.

About the 85 minute thing, it still has full opening credits and plenty of shots of scenery, so it isn't a tight 85 minutes. It does not feel like it's less than an hour and a half long. The end credits are shamefully long, and obviously only like that so they can claim the movie is longer. They also do the cliche drag-away kill twice. It plays out entirely like every other random monster movie. It tries to be serious, but they put no effort into the mythology. Everyone just seems dumb. They barely show the Leprechaun. I have no idea why they cast one of their wrestlers as him, because they don't even let you get a good idea of exactly how big the thing is supposed to be. They're also annoyingly inconsistent about how strong he's supposed to be. The other characters had just enough of a personality for me to mostly dislike them.

The costume for the Leprechaun did not look good at all, by the way. I'd say I would make a gif of it in action to show everyone, but you can totally tell that everyone involved knew it looked like shit and did everything they could to keep viewers from getting a good look at it.

It also really bothered me that they had the characters not remove any of their jewelry, even after they knew the leprechaun was going after it.
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EW! So on top of being totally shitty, it's also boring and dull? (cry) Really scared to watch it now, lol.


Lol@Hornswaggle or whatever his name is trying to act like his version of the Leprechaun was the best/scariest. Pfft.
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If this wasn't already my least favorite film released last year, it would be now. I don't know that I've ever taken so many screenshots to end up with so few that were good enough to be usable. I'm annoyed and just needed to complain about it.
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I'm like ten minutes into it and I...actually don't despise it.

The musical score, shooting style, and cinematography? Totally fine (so far). It's the dialogue, some of the acting, and the fact that the opening was SUCH an out-of-character thing for the Leprechaun to do that are the problems, lol. I'm just going to pretend this has nothing to do with the franchise and maybe I won't be THAT pissed off by it.
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So...


This didn't look as cheap and terrible as I expected it to but it didn't look GREAT either. Like I said before, the cinematography, overall style, musical score, and *some* of the gore was pretty solid. It was the writing, the characters, the pacing, the sound design, etc. that SUCKED. And since when did the Leprechaun just drag people away? And more importantly - since when did he fucking eat people?! (un) I felt like I was watching an even worse sequel to the already dull and forgettable Animal (2014), not a Leprechaun franchise entry.


I like that they got Brendan Fletcher (Freddy Vs Jason, The Killing, Tideland) and Garry Chalk (The Killing, Godzilla, Freddy Vs Jason, Feed The Gods) to have pretty big roles in this since I really like both of those guys, lol. And Garry's Irish accent wasn't as terrible as some of the other accents here. The other three leads were attractive but bland and I didn't manage to catch their names either. I don't like that they were so quick to ditch eachother whenever one would fall behind or something. Dicks.

The tongue piercing rip, stomach slash (even though the wounds randomly stopped bleeding?), axe to the face, and decapitation were all pretty well done. Not the best effects I've seen lately but MUCH btter than I expected from this. Brendan's character was a total punching bag like Natalie from Evil Dead (2013). Was it supposed to be funny? I just thought it was dumb.

The villain characters were more interesting than the good guys. The Leprechaun looked like shit. The father-son-drama was beyond laughable. The final confrontation was ho-hum but "Fuck you, Lucky Charms!" will go down in history as one of the worst heroine lines ever. (lol)

I didn't HATE this but I don't see myself watching it again and I'm certainly glad I didn't spend any money on it.


4/10 quality (if that), 5-6/10 entertainment (once people started dying, it was mildly fun). *Shrug*

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