Leprechaun: Origins (2014)

Just what I expected

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Not even worth the time to watch. One of the worst movies I've seen and the makeup on the leprechaun is not even close. Just terrible.

This is the biggest slap to the face to leprechaun fans. I still think the Cabin Fever remake is the worse and this is second worse. It did take it seriously but still it sucks. The only one scene in the movie that made me think it's a leprechaun movie is the spine ripping. The director said he got that idea from Psycho? I don't remember Norman Bates rip any spine out INCLUDING THE REMAKE OF PSYCHO!!! The "leprechaun" is more like a predator and pumpkinhead then a leprechaun! The story is crap including everything else. The one cast member I like from the movie is Brendan Fletcher (he's from Freddy vs Jason). Honestly I like the poster (not with Hornswoggle face in it) it looks cool, better than the movie. This is the worst out of them all the Leprechaun movies. Don't watch this hot garbage, THIS MOVIE SUCKS!!!!!!!

LEPRECHAUN: ORIGINS is a reboot of the long-running series made long after it died a death in the early 2000s. Warwick Davis doesn't return to the titular role, instead replaced by a dwarf wrestler who is dressed up in the most generic Orc-looking costume you've ever seen. The film was shot in Canada which stands in for Ireland, and features a plot that has already been done to death many times in the horror genre: a bunch of teenagers head out for a touristy trip, only to fall foul of locals and local legend. This was produced by a wrestling studio with little affinity for the material, but for a B-grade horror flick it's not too bad. I liked the charismatic stereotyped villains while there's a fast pace and plenty of bloodshed to take your mind off the inconsistencies and predictability of the story. No classic, then, but it does the job, just about.

Director Zach Lipovsky has done some extraordinary work with this essential film in the Leprechaun Canon. Harris Wilkinson's brilliant screenplay adds a great deal of vital background information, explains unexplained motivations from previous cinematic entries, and ties up some troubling loose ends. Beautifully filmed and with a dark atmosphere of overwhelming fear and dread, this is the epitome of motion picture horror. The Leprechaun franchise has never been better served by any other effort since the original Leprechaun masterpiece of years ago. In honoring those origins while offering a bit of a fresh artistic vision to his film, Lipovsky has managed to not only pay tribute to what amounts to a cinema legend but even breathe new life into the mythology. No one who has followed the Leprechaun saga and even students of the series should be more than pleased with what Leprechaun: Origins achieves.