Leprechaun: The Beginning

First and foremost, do not be misled. This is unrelated to the original Leprechaun movies. The review posted above me pretty much nailed it. This movie is awful. Seriously, it's an hour and a half of my life I'm never getting back. Yet somehow, as big of a trainwreck as it was, I still watched to the end. I think I was just curious if it was going to get worse. Spoiler alert, it did. The effects are terrible. The acting is terrible. The plot is terrible.

This daft movie is 100% missible. So missible, in fact, that you can. . .miss that you gave it a miss, so then in some weeks/months you slip up and watch it and then kick yourself with "How could I? Did someone spike my drink or what?" What happened is that you are human and so erring comes with the territory.

When I fall down that hole, instead of kicking myself, I let it serve as a reminder that I need to read some more Plato. That way I flip a negative into a positive.

Can ya dig it?

The storyline was not that bad. The execution of the final product was what did this movie in.

Everything about this movie was low budget.

The Leprechaun was not Irish.. and seemed to have trouble speaking with the terrible makeup on. And very tall.. for a leprechaun.

The Acting for the Family was very mediocre.

The Mother and Father were stiff and boring. ( But the Mother's acting picked up slightly at the end. ) The 3 daughters were a little more animated. Very different and I would've tried to have cast people who looked similar. The youngest one I pegged for the middle child. The middle child I pegged for the youngest.

The Aunt and Uncle did a very decent acting job.

The kills really were cheap and fake looking.

Can't say it was the worst movie I've seen.. but it needed something more..

I would rather chew glass, step on 800 nails, and pour bleach into my eye sockets than EVER watch this movie again. I've truly seen better acting at a 3 year olds school play. This movie was so awful I'd say it's one of the most disappointing and tragic events since 9/11. This movie left me with several questions he bit a girls neck and she just died? He didn't even bite it hard and she just died. He's not a vampire just a sad excuse of a leprechaun he looked more like yoda on crack. Genuinely save your time and watch paint dry.

When I sat down to the watch the 2025 horror movie "Leprechaun: The Beginning", I figured that the movie would be tied in with the "Leprechaun" franchise that had Warwick Davis in the role of the leprechaun. Alas, "Leprechaun: The Beginning" had nothing to do with that franchise. And the glorious 2.7 rating that the movie had snagged, when I sat down to watch it, definitely served as a warning sign of the level of entertainment this movie would prove to be.

The storyline in "Leprechaun: The Beginning", as written by Alessandro Di Giuseppe put together a script and storyline that, while being pretty straightforward, just simply was too generic.

I was not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, and that was actually the best thing about the ordeal that is "Leprechaun: The Beginning". I do enjoy watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen. The acting performances in the movie were a mixed bag of nuts; some of the performances were okay, while others were wooden and lifeless.

The first time you see the leprechaun pretty much set the bar of the movie extremely low, because they had painted the face and part of the neck greenish, but forgotten about the rest of the neck and the hands, which were the actor's own skin tone. It was just such a horrible mistake to make.

The movie's cover was actually the best thing about the entire ordeal.

This is definitely not a movie that I would recommend you to waste 87 minutes of your life on. Some of us virtually suffered through this, so you don't have to; you're quite welcome.

My rating of director Rahul Gandhi's 2025 movie "Leprechaun: The Beginning" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.