Hornswaggle went so far as to say that nobody was going to remember Warwick’s performance as the leprechaun once they saw his. The sheer. F*cking. Hubris.
Seriously? I hope he was only hyping out of contract because assuming no one would remember the wise cracking magic leprechaun over some B grade knock off of some pale crawler that could have slinked out of any old sewer, cave, or drain pipe to eat some strays really is assuming a lot.
"This thing looks more like Gollum if he caught the T-Virus" is way too accurate! Great review as always Decker, been watching since the Dark Floors review!
That’s just sone falmer who’ve been getting some time in the sun, going through one heck of an exercise routine, and been getting proper meals(read:sacrifices).
The biggest sin of the movie was taking the concept WAY too seriously. The original movie was never meant to be taken seriously since the director took influence on Scooby Doo (which he had written some of the episodes for) when he made it. People like Dead Meat or Nostalgia Critic felt the original sucked because it wasn't scary were missing the point of the first film's intentions completely and this remake showed why a killer Leprechaun movie doesn't work even if you did take it more seriously and made it realistic. It was made by people who didn't even care about the original. Hornswoggle in interviews said he claimed his version was better despite not seeing Warwick Davis's version and said nobody would remember who Davis was after seeing this version. The director himself had a hatred for the original movie that when the actors said they hadn't seen the original, he shouted "GOOD!" Nobody making the movie had any respect or care for the series at all. They may be campy and too much for some, but they all had a charm you can't hate on.
Wow Hornswaggle’s sounds like a dick, Warwick Davis is an icon before Peter Dinklage he was the go to dwarf actor for Hollywood. The man hosts Star Wars celebration on occasion, has his own game show, has been in multiple different popular film franchises and is an advocate for charities. What the hell has this Hornswaggle guy done other than wrestling?
They totally dropped the ball on this, yeah let’s make a leprechaun movie without any of the elements that made us love the previous leprechaun movies….We don’t want a serious leprechaun movie….nobody was asking for that
@@dadgraygaming3143 True, but they were making enough money on video rentals to where they were getting enough returns to make sequels, nobody is asking for one but if another one came out in the Warwick Davis universe I would watch the hell out of it still even if I wasn’t asking for it, I don’t know me and my friends loved all of them when I was growing up
Don't forget Assassins Creed's Origins Also Dragon Age including Awakening and Witch Hunt is SOOOO damn good! Everytime someone keeps mentioning Dragon Age Origins i keep getting nostalgic of my Warden's great adventures with Alistar and Morrigan and the others, the game is tough as nails if you don't properly organize your move sets. And thanks for reviving my 2013 memories
This abridged version was a hard watch. I can't imagine watching the whole thing. Decker has magic fingers, being able to turn something as garbage as this into something that is actually entertaining.
I remember WWE promoting this heavily. I was a fan of Hornswaggle in wrestling, so it was an interesting choice to make him the new Leprechaun. But WWE produced films usually sucked and sadly this wasn't that good.
@@konradcurze939 they remind me of the ones from the movie. Do you know the name of that movie that William Dafoe played in where he portrays Nosferatu.
Fun Fact but what they call the creature is incorrect and if I remember my one year binge of irish folklore the design of this creature is some other folklore monster not a leprechaun. Here's the IMDB thing about the name. When Sophie finds the Irish book about the leprechaun in the cellar she informs the others that 'Tuatha Dé Danann' means leprechaun. The Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythology were actually a tribe of kings and queens with supernatural powers that were worshiped as deities.
That's right, well done. Somebody who knows his lore! Anyway, the leprechauns were Fir Bolg, not Tuatha Dé Danann. These two were both supernatural, but were in opposition to each other. Hysterical that film makers with big budgets have to be the dumbest idiots you could find.
Honestly, the idea of them taking the concept of a Leprechaun and twisting it around to make it more of a monster than the traditional trickster isn't bad in concept. Other films have done something similar, problem is that by giving it the name Leprechaun Origins it makes it sound like it's connected to the previous films, which it obviously isn't. Movie should've shown us perhaps what the Leprechaun was like in his earlier years, like in medieval Scotland or something.
@@visitante-pc5zc Yes it is. Unlike other really bad horror movies that I have seen, this commited the worst sin...it was BORING! If something is so awful yet entertaining, I put it in the "its so bad its good" category. This movie was really REALLY awfully dull, uninspired, generic, derivative, uninteresting. The worst horror movie from a production and acting standpoint is Las Vegas Bloodbath. But I can watch that over and over. This movie, for me, is the worst horror movie I have ever seen for one reason: Zero entertainment value. Coming in second is Hellraiser: Hellworld.
@@thedaydimmeth2938 Hellword is the worst one, sorry. Its teen horror and that's unforgivable. Worse its Dimension/Miramax 2000s horror trash. I have seen every Hellraiser more times than is healthy, trust me.
This isn't a leprechaun it's more like a pooka they're Goblin like creatures from Celtic folklore well in appearance anyway pookas are very talkative creatures they also hate to say goodbye because they will show up sooner or later to start a conversation back up again whenever they feel like it
Kinda wonder if Kevin Dunn did the cinematography of this movie, because the quick cuts and shakey cam is very much like watching WWE today. 😉 Anyways, Decker, was awaiting to see you rip this one apart, and you didn't disappoint. Thank you so very much, Decker.
I remember seeing Postl in some interview talking about this movie and he had the nerve to say he was going to make people forget about Warwick Davis. 🤣🤣🤣
I am so glad you covered the whole series. My 12 year old loves the leprechaun except for this one because this is basically Dragonball Evolution of the series. Decker thank you for doing this series justice and reviewing them.
I remember renting this from either Family Video or Redbox years ago when I was maybe 8-10, I LOVED horror and the first Leprechaun movie. I watched this with my mom thinking it’d be like that and was so disappointed I didn’t finish it
Who the hell wanted a dark and gritty leprechaun? Put a dwarf in a leprechaun costume and have Warwick Davis dub in his voice. One of the positives of the pandemic is that WWE Films was killed in budget cuts.
As an irishman it is blindly obvious how little of a shit anyone on the production gave, for a movie set in Ireland everything is wrong, the group is hitchhiking in the backnof a pick up truck which are exceedingly rare in this country due to the consistent rain and the few that i have seen are relatively new 2000-present and only used by landscapers to move cuttings, secondly thats not an irish number plate, thirdly they are staying in a wooden cabin which are nearly nonexistent due to said rainy climate, wooden sheds disintegrate in 20 years so youd need to varnish that cabin every year. And finally the house had a basement, the only places that has basements are the really old houses in citys where the wealthy family lived above ground and the servants worked downstairs in the basement. But at best thats a few hundred buildings on an island of 8 million people. This is basic shit that could have been fixed by talking to one irish person or doing even the briefest search, but they didnt thats how little of a shit they gave and thats how you know nobody cared about making a good movie.
The true blacksheep of the series. I only watched it once as apart of a movie binge and that was it. To call that thing a Leprechaun is an insult to all Leprechaun. Also Decker, will you be doing a crossover collab with Creepy as per your other Summer Specials ritual?
Whenever i hear hobgoblin i think mst3k episode, which might actually be a better movie.😏 I mean at least it had Frankie, Sniffles, Bounce-Bounce, and The Claw.
No magic, no concept or understanding on what an actual Leprechaun is, ripping off of Red Clover, the audacity of what Hornswoggle said about the Davis films and David himself, what the director claimed then being pissed that nobody even came close to liking the movie. Yeah, it's no wonder everyone disregards this one and does their best to forget it even exists.
@@MultiPolarWorldCo-op I have never heard of that one, but after reading about it I am going to check it out. It's such a shame whenever there are great movies but nobody has heard about them.
Ay, to give this movie some credit, the main characters are all pretty likeable, and pretty resourceful. I really like that when one of them was dying, he used what little life he had to save his friends.
Not really the boyfriend leaves his girlfriend behind and the other guy's girlfriend also leaves him behind after he gets hurt risking his life to save them all when they are tied to the tree. The only likable ones are the main girl and the other girl's boyfriend who saved them all after they were tied up.
WWE, the company which celebrates criminals, was run for decades by a man who is now under criminal investigations, surrounded by people with some of the most horrendous accusations thrown at them and who humiliate, insult and degrade normal hard working employees. Adding arrogance and disrespect to something people love is the less of their problems.
Love his reviews but one thing is that it’s not the bite in the third movie that turns the guy, its the fact that after the bite and leprechaun’s blood gets mixed
The Leprichan in this film is akin to the American Godzilla. Loathed and hated. Japan only refers to him as Zilla. So we could call this Leprichan Leppy.
This just reaffirms my thought that the "See No Evil" films are the only good thing to come out of WWE Studios*. It's not parody, it's not self aware comedy, it's just good old fashioned slasher cinema, with one of the coolest slashers of the last 30 years. *I would count those Scooby-Doo films, but those are more Warner than WWE.
Or just kill the creatures these Leprechauns have no supernatural powers they are just monsters why not just get a gang together and trap them all in some place and burn them all or blow them all up lol.
There was a movie "based" on the Marvel Comics character Man-thing which can be considered a anti hero back in the Nineties that did the same thing this movie did. Turned the movie into a generic monster movie that didn't resemble the character at all
Gary Chalk is a fantastic actor. He can do a hillbilly accent, a Russian accent, and of course his typical Canadian accent. But my dude cannot do an Irish accent to save his life.
12:02 I don't know what it was, but something in the way he said: "... how convenient!" I played it back 3x's and I'm still smiling. can be something as simple as that or Andy doing his Zob Rombie impression (StitchedTogetherPictures) to make smile and just thinking of it makes me smile. that's why I love channels like that and Deker Shado's.
I feel bad for hornswoggle I loved his run with WWE, He could have pulled off a real good Leprechaun a post Warwick Davis era version, but have simular make up and have personally, He didn't need to speak but have personality. Which missed the boat here.
If something has Origin in the title, it's a given that it'll be a shitty time. Just look at Alien Origin! That movie even had pretty similar camera problems too!
He was in Freddy vs Jason as the police chief as well. And if you count it as horror, he was in The Predator as the postman also. Guy will do anything for a few bucks haha
When I heard Hornswaggle going to play the leprechaun I thought he was going to use his wrestling moves and crack jokes while he kills his victims but this movie did none of these things. This movie is an insult to the leprechaun franchise. The reason why the villagers didn't give back the gold because they were greedy idiots.
It's always good to see Optimus prime in a movie but given the last two movie he's been in on Decker's show have been this and the predator he might wanna fire his agent
I heard from some fans that they regards this like how Godzilla fans see Zilla from the 1998 Roland Emerich movie, many consider that Godzilla in name only and this Leprechaun in name only, it’s curious they attempted something different, but not only was it too different it didn’t work.
Not comparing the execution of Leprechaun origins to Godzilla 1998 but rather how fans rejected the radically different reimagining to the point of being unrecognisable.
Yeah I'm one of those who doesn't really consider this part of the canon. It's just not Leprechaun, everything about it is the opposite of what it should be and it just fails so hard. However I will grant that if you're just watching it as an unconnected bad horror movie it's on par with many others, still not good but not the worst I've ever seen ha. Great stuff as always Decker
As a reboot, it's crap because it replaces a character with personality with another version that has no personality. As a movie by itself, this is a passable 1 off watch monster movie.
The most dissapointing thing to me is the fact that a slightly more serious leprechaun film that maintains a sense of humor albeit much darker, absolutely works. Leprechaun Returns kind of did that (and i love it). But a higher budget film with a darker more sadistic leprechaun with creepier jokes would be amazing.
They should have called this movie "The Rake" this so-called leprechaun kind of looks like what I imagine the Rake creature would look like. Rremove the gold aspect and make a standard monster movie. Mighta had a better reception if it was marketed that way. Calling it The leprechaun made people expect something else.
@@bradencampbell464 My favorite is the character Gavin from The Taking of Deborah Logan (a pretty good movie). Gavin works for a documentary crew until things get weird. Then he tells everyone "The Gavin train is pulling out!" and he drives straight out of the movie.
@@wanderslostify personally, my fave is Roger from night of the demons. It's like he knew he's a black guy in a horror movie. He even tells another character to get put of the way while he runs for it.
Ugh.. it bugs me so much that in "The More Realistic" movie, they took an Irish faery creature (The Leprechaun), and turned it into... a regular non-descript American cryptid. I could be allowed to follow the Director and chant 'shame' for a week and not only do I doubt he'd care, he might try to assault me.
2:00 - I thought they'll be goblins from Troll 2 6:40 - it's just me, or they said they'll carry 'em halfway, but they went all the way to the destination? 9:25 - my thought was, these thinks are The Descent ripoffs 11:50 - I think by intention here was a Dagon-type situation running
