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Wonderful character development!

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This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is the biggest slap to the face to leprechaun fans. I still think the Cabin Fever remake is the worse and this is second worse. It did take it seriously but still it sucks. The only one scene in the movie that made me think it's a leprechaun movie is the spine ripping. The director said he got that idea from Psycho? I don't remember Norman Bates rip any spine out INCLUDING THE REMAKE OF PSYCHO!!! The "leprechaun" is more like a predator and pumpkinhead then a leprechaun! The story is crap including everything else. The one cast member I like from the movie is Brendan Fletcher (he's from Freddy vs Jason). Honestly I like the poster (not with Hornswoggle face in it) it looks cool, better than the movie. This is the worst out of them all the Leprechaun movies. Don't watch this hot garbage, THIS MOVIE SUCKS!!!!!!!

Stay away from this movie if you are a fan of the Leprechaun series. I give this movie just 2 stars and that's only because as a creature feature it's not bad. I would have rated it higher if they weren't ripping off the leprechaun series.For the past week I have been doing a marathon of the Leprechaun movies. When I saw on Netflix that there was a Leprechaun movie that had come out just last year I was excited. I thought it meant that after so many years we were going to have some new movies. Then I noticed it didn't have Warwick Davis. I admit I was a bit disappointed. I love his Leprechaun character. Not sure how anyone else can really fill those buckled shoes, but I was willing to give the movie a chance.----Spoilers ahead-----I gave the movie it's chance and it left me feeling disappointed, misled, and betrayed. This is a Leprechaun movie in name only. The leprechaun is really just a mutated monkey looking thing. Entirely feral and has no dialog other than growls. This movie has none of the charm of the originals. There is no clever rhyming leprechaun who takes joying in toying with his victims before killing them. Instead you have this seemingly mindless creature running around that has a thing for shiny gold and eating people. Oh and it has predator vision. Can't forget that. The vision would have made more sense if instead of highlighting on the people that it could more clearly see gold thus drawing the creature to you. Throughout the movie I kept expecting to run into the leprechaun we all know and love. That the creature in this movie was like his pet; guarding his gold and sent out to retrieve what had been stolen. But that does not happen. Or perhaps when all the Leprechaun's gold had been stolen by the villagers he lost his powers and turned into this feral creature. Then halfway through the movie he could have taken back enough gold to restore some of his powers and change back to the Leprechaun we know. That would have made this movie better. At the end the sole survivor of the group says the famous one liner from the first Leprechaun movie "Fuck you, lucky charms!". I know this was meant to be a nod to the original movies but I found it a bit insulting. There really shouldn't be any link between this sorry excuse for a Leprechaun movie and the originals.

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME. Zach Lipovsky IS A MORONIC AND INCOMPETENT DIRECTOR as is the writer, Harris Wilkinson. I cannot believe anyone funded this garbage. You will be checking the time every 6 to 7 minutes to see how much more horribly directed crap you have to sit through.Characters fall over just from standing still, not tripping over anything, not running, they just fall down as if they have no balance (although they all trip while running too, and then act as if they are paralyzed from head to toe). When they get somewhere safe, the directors and writer have them go outside one by one to get killed for no reason, even though they were untouchable where they were. The director has them leave whatever weapons they have in hand when moving from one location to the next- they literally just set them down before they run. Without even shooting a round, characters always cock their guns whenever they point them at something as if there wasn't a round in the chamber the first fifty times; even the double barrels have a cocking sound effect added even though that's impossible. Shotguns hold as many rounds as a machine gun. When characters with machetes and axes are waiting for a guy they know has a gun to come through a door, they stand in front of the doorway on the opposite side of the room rather than next to the door off to the side (seriously writers and directors? How stupid are you to make such a weak movie). Everyone falls down and then dies, now you don't have to waste your time. Only good part is the the actors were great which is even worse because now their careers will be permanently sullied by this trash.

Most of the reviews here do nothing but whine about it not being like the original. Well, I am glad it wasn't. I don't think a horror movie should be more of a comedy than horror. No the acting wasn't spectacular, but they did OK and it was fun to watch. I do think they could have done a little better on the leprechaun monster, as it did look like it had been burnt or something. But the leprechauns of Celtic lore made them out to be horrific monsters anyway. And in all, I think this was a good little horror flick, so thank you to the director and screenwriter for taking it a totally new and HORROR direction!