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Monday 8 September 2014

LEPRECHAUN: ORIGINS [2014]

Vancouver, B.C. does a hideously hilarious job at attempting to act like dirty ol' Ireland in Zach Lipovsky's Leprechaun: Origins.
A poor go at rebooting the original series (which was pretty bad to begin with), Lipovsky ditches the dumb humor and attempts to give us a seriously horrifying prequel chapter in the series.  He pretty much fails on all accounts which really shouldn't come as much of a surprise considering the lack of any sort of expectations.  Even Warwick Davis didn't bother to return and is instead replaced by some vicious little thing with Predator-vision that looks like an inbred midget out of The Descent.
So without the funnies, good gore, suspenseful scares or smarts, I'm left wondering who exactly is going to get anything out of this thing?
It just sits there and sucks.

1 Lucky Charm out of 5

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