Review of Leprechaun: Origins (2014) by Wes T — 05 Jan 2016

Setting aside the painfully lazy issue of not having Irish extras nor Irish filming locations in a movie wholly set in Ireland, this reboot is as generic as horror reboots get. The dark filters, humourless dialogue, monster POV, we have seen all this before.

It seems strange that the film's purpose was for Hornswoggle to get some acting chops, yet we barely see the leprechaun for nearly the whole film. It conceptually misses the point of the earlier movies which had Warwick Davis's antics giving the personality of the series.

Hornswoggle could have done this for the movie, just turned up to eleven. Conceptionally flawed, filmed generically, acted badly, no fun from the title character, skip it.