The erratic Leprechaun franchise is not known for sticking with a single concept for too long. The namesake (originally played by Warwick Davis) has gone to L.A., Las Vegas, space, and the ‘hood (not once but twice). And after an eleven-year holiday since the Davis era ended, the character received a drastic makeover in a now-unmentionable reboot. The critical failure of said film would have implied it was time to pack away the green top hat and shillelagh, and say goodbye to the nefarious imp. Instead, the Leprechaun series tried its luck again.
The general consensus for the Leprechaun films was never positive, and the darker yet blander Leprechaun: Origins certainly did not sway opinions. Just because the 2014 installment took itself seriously did not mean viewers would. After all, creator Mark Jones conceived a gruesome horror-comedy back in the early nineties, and that format is what was expected of any future ventures.
The general consensus for the Leprechaun films was never positive, and the darker yet blander Leprechaun: Origins certainly did not sway opinions. Just because the 2014 installment took itself seriously did not mean viewers would. After all, creator Mark Jones conceived a gruesome horror-comedy back in the early nineties, and that format is what was expected of any future ventures.
- 3/15/2024
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
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Who would’ve though that back in the 90s, when the original film debuted, we’d still be talking about the Leprechaun franchise over 25 years later? It almost didn’t happen of course. The previous film in the series, Leprechaun Origins – produced by the WWE no less And a film that had a small theatrical run in the Us – almost… almost, killed the franchise stone dead. However Syfy, god bless their genre-loving souls, decided to give the series another shot – this time under the auspices of one of the members of Astron-6, director Steven Kostanski and writer Suzanne Kelly, who gave Evil Dead fans one the The best episodes of Ash vs Evil Dead in the episode “Ashy Slashy”. And it turns...
Who would’ve though that back in the 90s, when the original film debuted, we’d still be talking about the Leprechaun franchise over 25 years later? It almost didn’t happen of course. The previous film in the series, Leprechaun Origins – produced by the WWE no less And a film that had a small theatrical run in the Us – almost… almost, killed the franchise stone dead. However Syfy, god bless their genre-loving souls, decided to give the series another shot – this time under the auspices of one of the members of Astron-6, director Steven Kostanski and writer Suzanne Kelly, who gave Evil Dead fans one the The best episodes of Ash vs Evil Dead in the episode “Ashy Slashy”. And it turns...
- 4/3/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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