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‘Leprechaun Origins (2014)

Starting my 31 days of horror movies, so of course my list of Horror movies counting to Halloween will be stupid as fuck. 

I am also hosting a wrestling themed swap meet, art show, comedy event this weekend so my first few bad horror movies are going to be wrestling related somehow.   Leprechaun Origins was produced by the ever dumb WWE studios and sort of stars little person wrestler Hornswaggle as the Leprechaun. At one point referred to be part of the Leprechaun franchise and later often denied probably due to its massive UNpopularity.

Oddly looking a little slicker and more professionally filmed then the recent  Leprechaun Returns but lacks every bit of soul , magic and humor (literally and figuratively). This movie is done to be a serious slasher movie instead of a humorous magical horror. But ends up a dry shot in rusty colors countryside killer movie.

This time around the Leprechaun is a maneating feral beastie that snarls and runs at people seeing you in Predator like vision (which seems super pointless except for a reason to put effects on the screen to distract you from the fact that nothing all that interesting is happening). 

The fact that Hornswaggle is in the monster costume is basically a null point because you cant see him very well and the monster has no personality, Wasting Hornswaggles humor and physical skills. Infact sometimes it’s definatly not him in the costume or just a puppet body part teased on camera... we know it’s not gonna be impressive so why wait an hour till we see him full on?   If you are familiar with the Elf from the Dan Haggertys 1989 movie Elves, he looks just like that witth a melted face. Now I need to know the origin or why his face is melted.... no I don’t. Other than the fact that the creature likes gold I don’t know how to compare it to what I know of any Leprechaun.

Basically the makers of this blah movie wanted to make another hillbilly killer / American youth killed by forgien counrty folk movie but got stuck with a franchise name to play a very vage game with. Using heavy rip off momments from the Texas Chainsaw remake mixed with a little Hostel as American tourists get tricked into being scarificed to the rabid little critter in the woods by Irish farmers. The Farmers have more presence and story then this so called Leprechaun. Spoiler there is even the cliche “Wounded characters on a dirt road wave down a car for help who just ends up being part of the bad guys and drives them right back where they started”, you know the kind of scene I mean. The most notable scene is the go to “accidentally killing one of youre own friends death scenes”. Again, you know what I mean, you’ve seen it before.

Not as terrible as I was warned (there is at least a spine tear out scene), the actors are blah but quite professional. However the movie is guilty of the sin of being forgettable.