Leprechaun: The Beginning

Every aspect is trash the acting the writing the design everything. The movie had to have a budget of 5k . Everyone in the film is awful and beyond poorly acted including the three teenage daughters who were in their late 20s early 30s . The actual design of the leprechaun is beyond awful and his acting is trash . The leprechaun looks like a Mardi gras costume party reject . The kills are so awful there's more convincing effects at Halloween spirit stores. This is not funny bad just miserable bad . There is a scene where the leprechauns make up is falling off his face and the accent wtf, why does he sound middle Eastern?. Not just a bad horror film but truly terrible overall. How was this greenlit?

I am a huge horror & B movie fan. I have a very large collection, some of it cheesey, but this? All i had to see was the very sad attempt at the Leprechaun makeup. More or less on the face only, bare white hands? The edges of the ear are green, the rest isnt. The outfit looked like something from a Shriners parade and the accent sounded like a blend of Eastern European to middle eastern. This has to be the first 5 foot tall Leprechaun i have ever seen.

Now, with so many films in which Warwick Davis did such a great job and cementing the standard.....how on earth did someone come up with this? As this was being filmed they really thought this was reasonably acceptable? How does this happen?

Its very seldom that i give up on a movie but i honestly lasted about 10 minutes.

First off, you need to have a certain personality to love b-rate schlock. It let's you pass things off and find them as entertaining and charming. This movie, however, cuts every corner they could. The makeup artist should be ashamed of themselves for even allowing that abomination to be shown on screen. The script should've been burned. I can't believe people actually auditioned to be in this slop. The acting was actually just fine, but I feel bad for them having to work with this script. The dialogue at least had good enough sound quality to it. Also, don't expect literally anything to happen for 30 minutes and at least they finally gave the leprechaun gloves after the initial first scene. Genius stuff there guys.

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?

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.