FrogGlace
In other words,this film is a surreal ride.
filippaberry84
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Myron Clemons
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
a_chinn
Now don't get me wrong. I'm a huge fan of movies where little things terrorize big things. I love everything from "Attack of the Puppet People" to "Child's Play" to the massive catalogue of Charle Band Full Moon Features exploiting this horror sub genre (i.e. "Puppet Master," "Demonic Toys," "Dollman," "Gingerdead Man," etc.). What all these films have in common is that they embrace the absurdity of little things menacing big things, particularly how ridiculous it looks visually, and that is where this film fails. "Leprechaun: Origins" attempts to make a darker more serious version of the Leprechaun story and fails miserably. Trying to sell a serious and scary story about a 3-foot tall magical (and evil) creature who just wants their gold comes off as just dumb. It works when the filmmakers don't take themselves seriously or at lease include a wink at the audience here and there, but this film's attempt to be "The Hills Have Eyes" set in Ireland is just dumb. It's not to say that this horror sub-genre can't be scary. The original "Child's Play" film was incredibly suspenseful and at times scary, but the filmmakers in that case understood the inherit silliness of a possessed killer doll and made knowing winks to acknowledge that fact. I think the filmmakers on "Leprechaun: Origins" wanted to make something along the lines of "The Descent," changing the quaint folk creature of the prior series into more of a cave monster with night-vision. I will admit to chuckling when one of the heroins, right before shooting the leprechaun, says "F- you, Lucky Charms," although that's a line stolen right out of the original 1993 Jennifer Aniston "Leprechaun" film. But overall, there's really no reason for this film to exist unless you happen to believe that WWE professional wrestler Hornswoggle was deserving of a film career.
brixtonwa
It's really sad that another remake is the flop. The story really has good potential it's just that it wasn't true to form with the other movies of this genre. The acting at times left a little to be desired however there are some well-known people that will identify in the movie that have been in other movies and television shows.
minionking777
I felt so compelled to express my supreme disappointment and hatred of this horrible movie that I am writing my first review on IMDb. Not only does this movie have nothing to do with the franchise, it's not even a good stand alone horror. I love wonky horror movies, but this one is a truly boring, god awful piece of garbage that deserves to be tried for treason and sentenced to a long, torturous death. May ISIS behead the people responsible for producing this film and mispackaging it with the Leprechaun collection.There is no leprechaun. There is no origin. The title should have an asterisk, gigantic quotation marks around it, or an "lol" at the end.ZERO stars.
BA_Harrison
I've yet to catch several of Warwick Davies' Leprechaun movies, but I imagine that they're not all that dissimilar to the ones that I have seen: light-hearted horrors with the diminutive star spouting cheesy one-liners as he offs his victims in creative ways.Leprechaun: Origins, a reboot of the series without Davies in the lead role, does things differently, eschewing the tongue-in-cheek style in favour of straight-forward horror, with a more animalistic creature (played by wrestler Dylan Postl) that utters nothing but guttural growls as it tears apart its victims. With this vastly different approach, director Zach Lipovsky has managed to strip away all of the charm that made the earlier movies such fun, delivering a bland, unmemorable, mess of clichés and uninspired movie-making techniques guaranteed to bore longtime fans of the series and newcomers alike. Nice one, Zach!Origins' predictable plot sees a group of dumb American backpackers visiting a remote Irish village where they run into trouble with the locals, who try to sacrifice them to the vicious leprechaun that has been terrorising the area. The majority of the script has the backpackers menaced by both the creature and the devious villagers, until only one remains (the prettiest girl, if you hadn't already guessed). The direction is as unimaginative as the writing, Lipovsky employing annoying wobbly camera-work, irritating rapid editing, and gimmicky Predator-style thermal vision, while dark cinematography and deliberately out-of-focus shots help to disguise the shoddy nature of the film's generic monster.The disappointing gore includes a split-second axe to the face and a poorly lit spine-ripping, while gratuitous T&A is limited to hot final girl Sophie (Stephanie Bennett) briefly stripping to her undies—none of which adequately compensates for the sheer tedium of the storytelling and total lack of fresh ideas.
