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080 - Leprechaun: Origins (2014)
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"This is what happens when you take its gold. You have to make amends. Until the debt has been repaid."
Happy St. Patrick's Day, dear listeners! This week, we're going to celebrate the holiday by discussing the gritty reboot to end all gritty reboots! We talk about the inconsistent lore, the completely unlikable characters, and we pitch some "out of this world" ideas for a sequel!
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Introduction and Podcast Theme
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I'll seek one for you.
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Faith and Bigora in this economy? Well, it's the disenfranchised podcast, and happy St. Patrick's Day from all of us. That's right, we're that podcast all about those franchises of one, those films that fancy themselves full fledged franchises before falling flat on their face after the first film. I am your host, Stephen Foxworthy, and joining me, as always, the man who gives the luck to the Irish because his Irish eyes are always smiling. It's Mr. Brett O'Rite. Hello, Brett.
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Top of the morning to Steven. And also with you, my friend. How are we doing on this fine
Diving into Leprechaun Origins
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St. Patty's Day? I'm doing all right. Sounding better. Yeah. Listen to the voice. It's clear. It's back to its normal. I don't know what self. That rich, lustrous baritone. Does it? All right.
00:01:23
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just go with it. Sure, why not? You can hear it. It sounds different in my head. Right, sure, sure. I mean, our heads are what? Just their own kind of separate echo chamber. I'm amazed I can even listen to this podcast. I find my voice so obnoxious. But hey, someone out there likes it and listens to this podcast and we are grateful
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For you, my friends, and hey, do we have a St. Patty's Day surprise for you? They may be after me, Lucky Charms, but in this episode, we got a little something different for them. Brett, what movie are we covering to celebrate St. Patrick's Day?
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We're going to talk about an attempt to reboot the Leprechaun franchise, Leprechaun Origins from 2014. Yes, the 2014 film Leprechaun Origins, Leprechaun Origins, the first of the franchise to actually take place in Ireland. If you like bad Irish accents, buckle in because, oh boy, I got a bunch of them.
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uh, directed by Zach Lepofsky and starring, uh, WWE superstar Dylan Hornswoggle postal, uh, and also Stephanie Bennett, Andrew Dunbar, Melissa Roxberg, Brendan Fletcher, Gary Chalk and Teach Grant. The man's name is Teach, Brett.
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Parents chose to name them that for some that that's that's a thing that happened and and yeah, this is Here's the thing Brett if you hadn't told me that this film was directly connected to the leprechaun franchise Well, you didn't tell me but had it not been, you know marketed as a reboot of the leprechaun franchise I would not have known that this movie was part of the leprechaun franchise at all. I Wouldn't have either because
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I expected there to be more wisecracking, goofy, you know, Warwick Davis style leprechaun shenanigans. Instead, what we got was a terrible, cryptid movie.
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Yeah. Yeah. An ancient Irish cryptid.
History and Personal Takes on Leprechaun Franchise
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And they just call it a leprechaun because shrug? I guess why not? Yeah. Look, let me tell you, we can get into it here in a little bit because I brought the lore. I brought the lore to you. Are we taking a trip to Brett's lore corner?
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We haven't in a long time. The Lorna, as it were. I don't know if we want to call it that. But we'll roll with it for now. Sure, sure. Yeah, no, I just had a little sneak peek at the leprechaun depicted in this film. Not a single bit of lore supports it. Hey, not even a little bit. I don't even know.
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It feels like they wrote a movie and then slapped leprechaun on it. I mean, probably just a monster that likes a monster that likes gold in Ireland. I know it's a leprechaun. It's got to be a leprechaun because what else could it possibly be? Yeah. So, Brett, I know we we did this behind the paywall recently, but what is your what is your history? What is your familiarity with the leprechaun franchise?
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Yeah, you know, friends, listeners, patrons out there. You're going to hear some overlap this episode. Don't worry. I mean, that's what happens when we cover the sixth and then seventh episode or installments of a franchise, I guess. That's true. True. True. That's true. But anyway, not none. Look.
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The Leprechaun franchise is one of those horror franchises that I heard about tangentially. Nobody I knew watched them. The horror fans that I knew didn't really watch them.
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I didn't know really anything about them beyond the Wayne's World sketch. I'm the leprechaun. Yeah, that's it. Bro, you're freaking me out, man. Stop it. I'm the leprechaun. Ah, it's scary. Yeah, exactly that. Go look that up on YouTube. Oh, hell yeah. Hell yeah.
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That's that's all I knew about it. And and then over time, you know, year because I mean, I worked at Blockbuster in high school and. Eventually, you just notice that they're just going straight to straight to video. And once you notice that a movie franchise is going straight to video. You automatically know, well, I don't need to watch that ever. They were straight to video starting at entry number three, Brett.
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Yeah, pretty went right to it. And I didn't really care after that. I heard they heard they were bad because like there's there's bad horror franchises that are still beloved that people talk about.
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I would argue Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a terrible horror franchise that people love. Here's the thing, I really only like two of those movies in that franchise. So I see your point. That makes some sense to me. Yeah. But this is one that's like nobody talks about, well, they're so bad, they're good, actually.
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No, nobody says that about these movies. They just say they're bad. That's true. Yet, they made six of them in the original run, this remake, and then they tried to requal it just a couple years ago. In 2018, the same year they requaled Halloween. One of those requals got a sequel. The other requal did not.
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And I'll let you guess which one that is you won't need to guess if you've been paying attention to the horror discourse in the last year so Yeah, I just I've never had a desire to watch the leprechaun movies and let me tell you over the past few days I Was right
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So this was something that for whatever reason I got a bug in my bonnet Last year last October to just watch the leprechaun movies because they were on They were on peacock And so I watched the first three before I stopped And I was just like maybe I'll get back to those eventually. Well, then based on that I got the idea. Hey, I
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We've got a main feed episode literally dropping on St. Patrick's Day. So what better way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day than by watching a god-awful leprechaun movie? And so we did. We scheduled leprechaun origins. And then I also decided, hey, you know what? Unenfranchised, our Patreon exclusive show, falls on the 15th. That's two days before St. Patrick's Day. Let's watch another god-awful leprechaun movie. So we did. We watched leprechaun back
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the number two, T-H-A hood, back to the hood. And I think between the two of those things, Brett has lost his will to live on this planet. Yeah, because I only got 45 minutes into Leprechaun 6, back to the hood. Which is a sequel to Leprechaun 5, Leprechaun in the hood. Yes. The spelled T-H-E.
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but five does not end how six opens like you think it would. No. Which is weird. Because, and here's another thing that we talked about on our Patreon episode. Seriously, if you're not a $5 patron, then you're missing out on our monthly show, Unenfranchised, where we talk about movies that killed off your favorite franchises, or in this case, your least favorite franchises. But we talked about Matrix Revolutions,
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with our friend Hope Lichtner. We talked about Scream 4 with our friend Brian Kuiper. We talked about Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Next Generation in what is now our lost episode, May It Rest in Peace. And we most recently talked about Leprechaun Back to the Hood. So we do get into these movies, but something I mentioned on that episode, Brett, is that this franchise has no sense of continuity whatsoever. So when I realized we were going to be doing this, I decided I was going to watch the rest of the movies in the Leprechaun franchise.
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So I sat down and I watched four, and five, and six, and this one. I have yet to watch Leprechaun Returns, but I have to save something to watch on actual St. Patrick's
Gritty Horror Reboots Trend
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Day, so there we go. But that's kind of where I'm at, and here's the thing. There is not a good movie in this franchise.
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That doesn't surprise me. Leprechaun 2 is mediocre at best. But I mean, this is like the epitome of like a low budget move or low budget franchise. It goes off the rails almost immediately and then it stays off the rails. Like it it knows what it is and it doubles down on it and becomes even more ridiculous as it goes on.
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And I mean, and here's the thing, Warwick Davis got work for an entire decade off of that franchise. So can it really be bad if it's paying Warwick Davis his bills? I don't think so.
00:11:12
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I don't think so. Yeah, I don't think so either. In hell, the Leprechaun franchise went to space before Jason did. That's right, by five years! Leprechaun was out in space five years before Jason was X. So, Jason X, by the way, a movie featuring one of our favorites, David Cronenberg.
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who had his birthday yesterday as of the recording of this episode. So let that be a little time stamp for you. I don't know. But yeah, David Cronenberg in Jason X, he's like the scientist at the beginning who like puts Jason in cryo sleep. One of those things where, you know, David Cronenberg just shows up in something. As he is wanted to do. As he is wanted to do. And here's the thing, we love him for it. We truly, truly love him for it.
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Indeed. Go listen to our Nightbreed episode. Yeah, that's right. Absolutely. Maybe our best episode ever? Question mark? Maybe. Maybe. Who knows? Who's to say? That's what we've been told. Thank you fans for voting that our best episode ever. Maybe. I don't know. If you do. Hey, it's a good episode. And hey, you know what else is going to be a good episode? Our Leprechaun Origins episode, Brett, because we are right in the thick of it.
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We're only 12 minutes into this episode, Brett. I need you to be a little more positive about the outcome of how this is gonna go. Hell yeah, it's gonna be great. It's gonna be awesome. Man, I love leprechaun origins. It's so good. Fuck yeah, leprechaun origins. All right. So, um, I don't know, man. Let's let, I mean, what else is there to say about the leprechaun franchise? It's, it's six movies with very little, if any kind of continuity, the leprechaun's motivations change from movie to movie. His
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Powers change from movie to movie. It just gets increasingly more ridiculous as it goes on. And you know what? That's kind of its charm. Like you mentioned on the unenfranchised episode that this is a franchise for a specific kind of horror fan. And if you are into that particular kind of horror,
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that's probably something that you're going to enjoy. If it's not, then you probably won't. And you know what? It's okay to like a movie if Leprechaun is your favorite franchise. Awesome. I'm happy for you. It's not one of mine, but I'm glad you enjoy it. If it is not your favorite franchise, you and I can commiserate together. I happen to agree, but you know what? That's cool too. It's okay to like a movie, not like a movie. We're gonna still talk about them either way. So there you go.
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Yeah, look like what you like. We won't judge. Just don't be a dick about it. Yeah. That's all that's all we ask. Just don't be a dick about it. Yeah. I mean, if you if you like this one, I have some questions.
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I'm gonna have some questions for you. Well, let me ask you this, Brett. Let me just get this out of the way, because you mentioned that you only made it 45 minutes into Leprechaun back to the hood. Did you actually finish Leprechaun Origins? I almost didn't. It was real close.
00:14:24
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Okay, I can't quite put my finger I don't remember exactly when I almost turned it off because there were no fart jokes to point to in this movie No, I it might have been around the point Where oh, I know I know what it was When the leprechaun air quotes there first attacks
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the cottage. I don't remember any of the characters names. Sure. They're as memorable as a blank sheet of paper. They're also not likable at all. Nope. Any of them. We'll get into it, I'm sure. When that one is freaking out,
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And they just flat out laugh at her. Mm hmm. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like she sees something outside and they're all like, you dumb bitch. Like you're just like fucking really guys.
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Yeah, I think that's where I almost turned it off, because I was getting bad vibes off of all four of them from the get-go. Honestly, I'm getting those vibes even before that scene in the pub, where the boyfriend is clearly gaslighting this girl. It's clear their relationship is on the rocks, and everyone there is just humoring her up to a point, and the boyfriend seems the least interested in humoring his own girlfriend.
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And she's like, I don't know, maybe I'll move out to the East Coast with you. And he's like, oh, just really like standoffish and dickish about it. And like never really like commits to her the entire rest of the movie. Like eventually, like she kind of like talks to him about it a little bit and he kind of like, it ignores her.
Leprechaun Lore vs. Film Depiction
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And then after that, it's just a mad cap rush for survival. And we never come back to that thread again. Once, no, I come back to that thread once. Did I miss it? Was I making dinner at that point?
00:16:29
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Uh, cause it's the stupidest fucking thing. Oh, maybe I forgot it cause it was the stupidest fucking thing. Uh, when they're the only two left alive and they're running to the truck.
00:16:41
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and she trips over nothing like you do in a horror movie. This, okay, yes, this, okay. Yes, I do remember this now that you mentioned it. And he leaves her behind. Yes. Straight up leaves her behind. And she does call him on it later, yeah. Yeah. As sort of, look, you know, it's intentionally supposed to be like a callback to how the relationship is going and, you know, maybe
00:17:05
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Maybe they're gonna work it out, and maybe this terrible ordeal will bring them together. No. No one wants to see that, first of all. It's a horror movie. We're gonna want to see everybody die. Yeah, but do you really need to bring it up now? When you're running for your life, and you have to run from this terrible monster that is going to just disembowel you. Or at the very least, rip the gold off of your body with very little disregard for what's in its way.
00:17:36
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Yeah. You're going to bring that up now? Yeah. You're really going to go, why did you leave me behind?
00:17:44
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Why didn't you try to save me? Well, because here's the thing, earlier in the movie, when old boy with the busted leg falls over, she goes running back for him like it's nothing. She's just like, oh, I'll save you random friend, like random guy my best friend is dating. Okay, whatever. So I mean, you get the idea that this is what she expects, because this is what she would do. But let's be honest, she's probably better than everybody else.
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You're giving this movie way too much credit, Steve. I am. No, I am absolutely giving this movie too much credit. Don't even think I don't recognize it. Yeah, no, definitely giving this movie way too much credit. Well, look, OK, so before we deep dive, because I feel like we're getting very close to the plot of 60 seconds here. We're nosing our way, man. Let me let me get some lore out of the way. Let's go to the Lorna, people. It's Brett's lore corner.
00:18:35
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Okay, so leprechauns, absolutely nothing like this movie, let me tell you. Apparently the lore in the first leprechaun movie, pretty good. It was actually researched. Mark Jones actually did research on leprechaun lore. Good, good. That's good to hear. Because look, here's the thing, as you might expect, Irish people in general,
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hate most of what the West has done to folklore, Irish folklore. I can't imagine. Yeah. It's difficult to believe. You go over there talking about chalalies and top of the morning and leprechauns. You might get a pint of Guinness shoved in your face. Yeah. Or maybe through your abdomen, like that bong and back to the hood.
00:19:35
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Don't remind me I did just remind you So cuz I mean There they don't really wear green most of the time they're depicted with red Mm-hmm suits and they like mischief they like playing tricks, but it's never anything devious. It's never anything like murderous They just want to like misplace your hat
00:20:02
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They just want to like move your keys five inches to the left. So you forget where they're at. Those little rapscallions. Yeah. And they do. They love gold. Sure. Who doesn't? Yeah. And do they. Are there some stories where there's rainbows and pots of said gold? Sure. But that's based on why not?
00:20:24
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Olds like old wars and people would bury gold in the battlefield To sort of like hide it I guess is how I interpreted that a few articles. I didn't really mention that a whole lot pots of gold leprechauns aren't really like as prevalent as you would think mm-hmm, but That's one of the things is mentioned And yeah, like they're just they're they're fairies they're
00:20:56
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They're just like the she, just like any other she is, which is the European term for like a fairy or the group of fairies. It's spelled S-I-D-H-E. Yeah, they're not, they're definitely not, no, based on the beginning of six
00:21:18
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They that that bit of six is Lord for leprechauns. He must imply that he's he's an outcast He does what he wants to do which again is completely inconsistent with the five movies that preceded it Yeah so but otherwise Leopard leprechauns aren't murderous. They wouldn't kill they wouldn't kill somebody over some gold All right, well good to know
00:21:44
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Yeah, and this movie seems to kind of do the only nod to the folklore in this movie is there's a book at one point that happens to like have some runes in it. And the quote unquote history buff of the group, our final girl, indicates that the monster is something called a Tuatha de Danann, if Wikipedia is to be believed.
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which she then translates to leprechaun weirdly. So I don't even know if those are the same thing in Irish folklore, but in this movie they are, because who cares? Now that I didn't look up. So that's a really good question. I wonder if that is even a real thing or if it's just some Irish gibberish that the producers of this movie looked up. Well, according to Wikipedia, it is a phrase meaning the folk of the goddess Danu
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They're a supernatural race in Irish mythology, thought to represent the main deities of the pre-Christian Gaelic Ireland. They constitute a pantheon whose attributes appeared in a number of forms throughout the Celtic world. Thank you, Wikipedia. Well, hey, look at that. Doing some supplemental work here in the lower corner. Thank you, Steven. No problem, man. Hey, we're all doing our part.
00:23:01
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I just I just looked up leprechaun lore. I did not look up the leprechaun lore of this movie. I'm literally on this movie's Wikipedia page in anticipation of having to do the plot in 60 seconds. So yeah, so they're not even. They're not even leprechauns, right? The indication, at least in this movie, they they kind of conflate whatever they're supposed to be with a leprechaun just to say it's a leprechaun
Humor and Absurdity in the Franchise
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movie. I don't know.
00:23:34
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Which is frustrating because that I mean that's exactly why The Irish people hate what the West has done to their folklore correct here you're just you're taking this thing that because based on that description that could be a number of Different you said like you said the Irish Pantheon, right? like and I mean based on the fact that
00:23:58
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We are now increasingly a post-literate society. Most people are getting their knowledge of anything from movies instead of books. So our knowledge of folklore is pretty much going to come from the most popular franchise that happens to have anything to do with Irish folklore, the Leprechaun franchise. He can't even say it with a straight face and yet somehow it's true. And we laugh to keep from crying. I'm incredibly happy this movie didn't do better because had it done better,
00:24:27
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This this could potentially be what we think leprechauns are right because Americans are that stupid they are and we are
00:24:36
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And I mean, this falls very much in the tradition of the gritty horror reboot that was very much the thing throughout the early 2000s, starting from the year that the previous entry in this franchise came out 20 2003 with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot to bring that franchise back, you know, and we mentioned this like that becomes kind of the predominant
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theme in horror is the gritty reboot. When you can't get another Freddy vs. Jason movie made, I don't know, let's just reboot both those franchises in a really dark and gritty way. And hey, you know who could probably do with a dark and gritty franchise reboot? The Leprechaun! Here's the thing, though. This movie has the skeleton of a good reboot.
00:25:25
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To me, in my opinion anyway, the skeleton is there. Like you have the folklore, you're setting it in someplace other than America, which is already doing great work. I mean, the only movie in the Leprechaun franchise set anywhere other than America is Leprechaun 4 in space.
00:25:46
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Which is insane to me. You're going to make leprechaun movies and never said at least one of them in Ireland. Right. The hell is wrong with you? Yeah. So the fact that it's set in Ireland, you're doing sort of the same like cabin in the woods story, but you're doing it in Ireland with Irish folklore. Right. That is the skeleton of a really good, I mean, it's
00:26:12
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in the very tiniest La Croix style way, you're doing midsummer a little bit. Like you're setting this horror story in a completely foreign country in the backwoods of this foreign country. So it's even scarier.
00:26:27
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because you're even more disconnected than you normally would be. I mean, you've got four people, four college students living in a cabin in the woods. I mean, it's got that Evil Dead vibe to it. The tall grass stuff is reminiscent of the Jurassic Park movies. You've got these more successful elements from other movies. It's just this movie is not even as good as the sum of its parts. The townsfolk that are pretending to be nice because they have to begrudgingly make a sacrifice to this thing.
00:26:57
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Yeah, very like hot fuzz by way of like American Werewolf in London kind of. Yeah, there's there is a skeleton of a good movie here, and it's it's ultimately what carried me through to the end of the movie. It's what you do that ridiculous post credits jump scare. Yeah. Or or that reveal that, oh, there's there's multiple leprechauns. Oh, how would you even do a sequel to this movie?
00:27:27
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You call it leprechauns colon origin. Because, you know, subject verb agreement. Then you get a ragtag group of Irish space Marines. I don't know. I'm spitballing. Hollywood hire me. No, here's what you do. You get you get a group of treasure hunters who go looking for the leprechauns gold. And I don't know. You do kind of aliens, but with leprechauns. I don't know.
00:27:57
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Maybe? Ripley's there for some reason. Yeah, and it's our Sigourney Weaver. Sure, why not? I mean, here's the thing, this movie would have had to do incredibly well to get Sigourney Weaver, and spoiler alert, it did not. No, you had a final girl at the end who's a history buff, she comes back, she's the expert.
00:28:20
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You know, and she's got to be the Ripley type that helps these Space Marines take down these leprechauns. Space Marines? Space Marines in Ireland for some reason. Sure. Why not? Yeah. Earth is asteroid, forward seven, whatever the asteroid is for me. I forget what the name of the asteroid is. You got a guy with a terrible Irish accent saying game over, man. Game over, man. Game over.
00:28:47
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I wasn't going to do it because I'm sure my Irish accent is garbage. Well, I mean, my Irish accent is a combination of the hobbits from Lord of the Rings and like the stereotypical Irish brogue from like Lucky the Leprechaun and stuff. So, you know, it's just you bring those two things together. And I don't know, maybe it kind of sounds something like this. I don't know, Irish. You dipped a little bit into Ringo there. I did. I did. I forgot what I was doing there for half a second. And I'm like, I don't know, whatever.
00:29:14
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I'm not going to say I'm drunk, but I'm not actually drunk. I'm really not, but whatever. I'm tired. It's been a long month. Not yet, anyway. Yeah, that's true. Night is young, right? Okay. At this point then, Brett, I guess there's nothing to it but to actually do it. Let's do the plot in 60 seconds.
00:29:37
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This is the part of the show, for those of you tuning in for the first time to listen to our Leprechaun Origins episode. First of all, if you are, who hurt you? And second of all, this is the part of the show where we at the behest of the Coin of Justice, which is a beautiful pound sterling given to us by our number one fan, Tucker. You may be a fan of this podcast, but unless you're willing to buy us a pound sterling to actually have a coin to flip,
00:30:04
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You'll never be our number one fan. Thanks, Tucker. He also wrote our theme music that you hear at the beginning and end of every episode. So thank you for that as well, unless there's a Ice Nine Kills leprechaun theme song that you want to put at the end of this one. They have not done a leprechaun song, surprisingly enough. Gee, I wonder why.
00:30:22
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because they've got taste. You said it, not me. So we are gonna flip the coin of justice. The coin of justice will then determine which of us, Brett or myself, will recount the plot of Leprechaun origins, such as it is, in 60 seconds or less. So Brett, I have the coin of justice here, and it literally says justice on it. It's got lady justice on one side that's heads, and a coat of arms on the back that is tails. Brett, go ahead and call it in the air.
00:30:52
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Heads. And it is tails, my friend. And I can actually show you. Because I have a physical coin now, it is tails, which means, Brett, that it falls to you and you alone to recount the plot of Leprechaun Origins from 2014 in 60 seconds or less. Let me sheath the corner of justice back into its case from whence it came until it is once again needed. And then I will put 60 seconds on the clock.
00:31:22
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Let me tell you, I don't feel like I'm going to need all 60 seconds. But you're going to use them. All right. Am I? Yes. Oh, you bell. Hrump, hrump, hrump. Oh, right, Brett. Whenever you are ready, I will go ahead and start the clock. Yeah, go for it, man. Your time. She starts right now.
00:31:44
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All right, so four college kids are vacationing, backpacking in Ireland. They take a day trip out to this old village where the friendly locals, they're like, hey, you want to come out to see these caves where some stuff happened? So they do, and it turns out it's a trap.
00:32:05
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And really, there are sacrifices for leprechauns because these idiots stole gold from this leprechaun from their cave a long time ago. So now they have to sacrifice tourists. 30 seconds. So the leprechaun does not kill the townspeople. But they escape. Leprechaun hunts them down. Townsfolk hunt them down. People die over the course of this movie, one by one. Townsfolk and teenagers alike.
00:32:35
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10 seconds. And the guy gets a spine ripped out. Lady escapes, cuts his head off, calls him Lucky Charms, cuts his head off, and then manages to escape, chased by multiple leprechauns. And that is time. Wow. You really did use every second there. Yeah, I thought I could have condensed it soon, but you're right. I used more. I mean, you were kind of dragging there for a while, like, here's the thing, though, Brad, how dare you leave out the best kill in this entire movie in your plot in 60 seconds?
00:33:05
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Which is the best one? The one where not final girl is like hiding outside and the leprechaun finds her and shoves her back in and her friends murder her face with axes. Oh yeah, that one. Yeah. I was about to ask you, Brett, what is the funniest moment in this movie and why is it the moment when what's her face gets killed with axes? I feel like the funniest part comes a few minutes later when she justifiably freaks out because she just killed her friend.
00:33:35
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but then snaps back into Final Girl mode as if nothing happened. Character motivations are wild.
Horror Film Character Critique
00:33:46
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I am learning thanks to Wikipedia that not Final Girl's name is Jenny and Final Girl's name is Sophie.
00:33:55
Speaker
And you could have fooled me. Yeah, if you had put a gun in my head and told me to name the final girl, I would not have been able to do it. Oh, gosh, no. And I just watched this movie yesterday. Like, no, not going to happen. I will tell you, the MVP of this movie, though, is the curmudgeonly town's town's person who who is the one who convinces them to to get locked in the cabin. And that's saying a lot because he's he's fine.
00:34:25
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Yeah, but here's the thing. He's he's a halfway decent actor, actually manages to pull off an Irish accent pretty well and is affable enough that you're like, hey, I kind of like that guy.
00:34:38
Speaker
So this movie will shock no one when I tell you that this movie was filmed in Canada and populated mostly by Canadian actors. The actor's name is Gary Chalk, and he has provided the voices for Optimus Primal and Optimus Prime in a number of the Transformers English dubs. So there you go. Oh, that's cool. Yeah.
00:35:05
Speaker
He was also apparently in Freddy versus Jason. He was also in the 2014 Godzilla and The Fly 2, the sequel to the David Cronenberg film. Oh, neat. Which is, what if Eric Stoltz was Jeff Goldblum's son? Yep. Yep. That's what that movie is. I mean, I've seen the sequel to The Fly once many, many years ago. Which is one more time than I've seen it, so.
00:35:35
Speaker
I don't really remember anything about it. It's one of those situations where I saw it, but did I actually? Probably not. Well, yes, but it actually no. But yeah, I don't know, man. This movie sucks. What do you want? It is very little redeeming value, if any at all.
00:35:57
Speaker
This movie is maybe the most Canadian British or Irish set movie ever. Like it doesn't even really look like Ireland because you think of Ireland, you think of these like lush green rolling hills. And this thing looks like it's set smack dab in the countryside of British Columbia. Like you tell me it's set in Britain or it would it's a British Columbia set movie. I'm like, OK, I believe you.
00:36:21
Speaker
Because by and large, this is a Canadian franchise. Like most of these movies are filmed in Canada for the tax breaks. Like the production values are pretty low, which is not to say that all Canadian cinema has low production values, but let's be honest, if you're making a movie on a budget, it's easier to make it in Canada than it is in the United States. Your dollar can go further over there is what I'm saying. So yeah, there's...
00:36:48
Speaker
There's a lot to be said for the Canadian-ness of this franchise. But I mean, you know, the entries in this franchise where the movie is set in
00:36:59
Speaker
Los Angeles, but really British Columbia, or it's set in Las Vegas, but really Vancouver. Like it's very obvious. These are these are not the places that they're supposed to be. It's set in space, but really, you know, a studio in Vancouver. Like how do they get Vancouver to look like Vegas? They don't. That's the thing. OK, got it.
00:37:24
Speaker
That's the funny thing, Brett, they don't. They have casinos in Vancouver and they look nothing like the casinos in Vegas, but hey, a casino is a casino, right? No.
00:37:36
Speaker
close enough. Yeah. And I mean, you know, I three is appropriately bananas. Like there's there's some redeeming value in three, which is, again, more than I can say for this one. This is maybe my second least favorite one in the franchise. The worst one, of course, being leprechaun in space, which is just egregious on multiple levels. But this one, gosh, this one is not much better if I'm if I'm being real honest, like
00:38:05
Speaker
And again, I think it's because by making this into a, by giving this franchise a gritty reboot, you are in essence betraying everything that this franchise is, like on its face. Like there's no humor, because again, gritty reboots, you can't have humor.
Representation and WWE's Role in Film
00:38:24
Speaker
It's always got to be this dark dour affair that leaves everyone ultimately more depressed than when they came in.
00:38:30
Speaker
And that's what this movie is doing. The only way this movie could have been more depressing is if they actually did kill the final girl, which I half expected them to do. I was a little surprised when she got away at the end. Well, they wanted this to be a franchise, Steven, you see. So they wanted to make sure that we had.
00:38:51
Speaker
Yes, and there's never been a franchise entry where all the main characters die and then other people come back in the sequel to Avengers. That never happens. Do you think this movie's that smart? I don't know. I want it to be smarter. I'd probably have a better time if it were smarter. Me too. I'm the one sitting there going, look, there's a skeleton of a good movie here. Right.
00:39:16
Speaker
There's just so many horror tropes in this movie. Give me a list of your top 10 horror movie tropes. Let's watch Leprechaun Origins and check them off whenever you see them. Take a shot whenever you see a trope and you'll be drunk in the first 20 minutes.
00:39:32
Speaker
Yep. Like, I mean, and you're absolutely right, like this movie is there, it doesn't feel like there's an original idea in this movie's head. Like everything that's even remotely decent about it seems to be cribbed from somewhere else, right? Like it's got
00:39:47
Speaker
this very like hackneyed frankenstein approach but unfortunately when it comes down to it like i said before it's not any better than the sum of its parts like it it's hurt because of that as opposed to being better because of that there's there is an art to blending ideas together there's there's a way to do that and make it seem fresh and interesting and new and i think part of the fact
00:40:11
Speaker
partially because this movie comes 11 years after the reboot trend started, and partially because it's it's such a betrayal of everything this franchise had been up to this point. And honestly, it feels like they took another script and did a rough pass where they just wrote leprechaun in like crossed out a word and wrote in leprechaun at one point, or like put a little carrot in and wrote leprechaun that they can make this a leprechaun movie and just call it a leprechaun reboot cast that little guy from the WWE. It's fine.
00:40:41
Speaker
Seems to very much be the cynical attitude behind this film. That was weird. Because WWE, whenever they produced a movie, they would shoehorn in wrestlers into it, right? Right. And they did this to better effect with...
00:41:02
Speaker
See no evil, right? Was that the one with, I think that was the one with Kane. That one was half decent. If I recall, I was also a horror fan, or not a horror fan, a wrestling fan at the time. Okay, do you have thoughts on Miles Waddle? No, he was during the period of time where I was not watching wrestling. I see. But here's the thing.
00:41:30
Speaker
You can't tell it's him. Right. He is under so much makeup. Like it again, he doesn't even resemble a leprechaun. Like if you look at the the the poster that we used for our teaser on Tuesday of this past week for this movie, it shows you a picture of what the leprechaun looks like. And it's not even something recognizable as human. It looks it has more in common with the xenomorph than it does with Warwick Davis leprechaun.
00:41:58
Speaker
Yeah, that's why this is just, and even in the lore of this movie, it's just a straight up Irish folklore cryptid. It's not a leprechaun. It's some sort of other fairy. It's something else in the Pantheon of Fairies in Irish folklore. It's not a leprechaun.
00:42:14
Speaker
Right. And I mean, to hear Dylan Post will talk about it or Hornswoggle to his friends, I suppose, to hear him talk about it. This was a franchise that WWE purchased, I guess, as a way of giving him a vehicle to star in. Like I in his words, it was like, well, I guess we already have a leprechaun. So why not? And I mean, Hornswoggle was a leprechaun themed wrestler, as I recall.
00:42:38
Speaker
So like that was very much his shtick. But then again, and then you turn him into something that's so antithetical even to the notion of a leprechaun that like. Why? And and Postel himself is it's not like he's a fan of the franchise like he again by his own admission is not a horror fan. It's afraid of the dark, so doesn't even really like horror movies had not seen a leprechaun movie prior to this and probably hasn't since, if I'm being honest, like
00:43:09
Speaker
Like, this doesn't seem like the right thing, the right vehicle for him, and yet, here we are. Not to mention that if I recall, he's gone on record as saying he didn't even like the Hornswoggle character, just because it was so stereotypical. Like, in the age of the 80s, late 80s, most of the 80s, actually,
00:43:35
Speaker
It was normal for these, well, even in some of the 90s, early 90s. Very stereotypical wrestling characters. Right. Very, very racist in some cases. Yeah, painfully in many cases. Yes, painfully. So it was weird to see that sort of thing being done again in the early 2000s. Yeah. And I mean, you have
00:44:07
Speaker
A short person playing a leprechaun character. Yeah. Like, come on. Right. Could you not? And I mean, these conversations are still happening. I mean, Peter Dinklage recently went on record kind of lamenting the fact that Disney is choosing to do a live action remake of Snow White, and they approached him to play one of the Seven Dwarfs. And he's like, really? We're still doing this? It's 2020. Good Lord. And like, he went kind of public with that idea. And
00:44:27
Speaker
a, um,
00:44:36
Speaker
I mean, he got a little he got some backlash for it from people who don't see what the big deal is. But I mean, honestly, like, come on, it we can do better. Yeah, we're at a point in society where we can do better. Right. And should do better, quite frankly. Yeah.
00:45:02
Speaker
Is it good that they're getting work? Sure, but they could get work just playing a regular character. Exactly. Again, that's a part of the discussion on inclusivity that's been brushed aside really is, yes, people of different races are being considered for different characters. I think that's a great thing.
00:45:26
Speaker
But people of different statues may not be. I mean, Peter Dinklage is an actor now who's got enough clout on his own to be able to say make a Cyrano de Bergerac movie happen like all in his own. That's largely thanks to his clout from from Game of Thrones. But again, that that character that he played there was written as a little person. And so that was the reason he got cast. It wasn't like
00:45:54
Speaker
I don't know. We talked about Peter Dinklage in our ELF episode and how smart that casting was and how well that worked. But again, that's a character written for a little person. It just happens to be played by someone with an incredible acting talent. I don't know. I think we should we should give more little person actors a chance to shine outside of just the stereotypical little person roles.
00:46:22
Speaker
From what I've read, most little person actors would rather just be seen as actors as opposed to little people actors. As they should be. Right. That should just be the bar. Bar is too low. Exactly. Because bare minimum should be that they're looked at as just regular actors. I don't really see the problem here. Yeah.
00:46:43
Speaker
And yeah, so I mean, yeah, would definitely love to see more of that for all little person. And here's the thing, I think the only movie I've actually ever seen Dylan Postle act in is Muppets Most Wanted, which came out the same year as this movie. And here's the thing, I didn't even know it was him. He plays prisoner number one in Muppets Most Wanted.
00:47:04
Speaker
in the scene with like Danny Trejo and Ray Liotta and, you know, at the Russian Gulag prison with Tina Fey. Like he's in that movie for a little bit as one of the many, many celebrity cameos in that scene. But, you know. I've seen that film. I wouldn't know. It's okay. A lot of people would argue it is better than the earlier 2011 Disney Muppets movie.
00:47:33
Speaker
I don't know that I would make that argument, but many would. Okay. So, there you go. Maybe we'll talk about it soon. Maybe not that movie, but maybe we'll talk about it soon. Maybe we'll talk about The Muppet Zone, yeah. Yeah, maybe we'll talk about The Muppet Zone. Maybe we'll talk about The Muppet Zone, who knows?
00:47:52
Speaker
Wink. Who can say? Not me. But yeah, man, I don't know. There's a lot wrong with this movie. The acting is not particularly impressive. Again, I think my favorite parts of the movie were the Irish townspeople, because again, the main characters are about as compelling as Chalk Dust and about as white too.
00:48:19
Speaker
Yeah. And again, none of them are likable. No, there's not. You don't want them to succeed. I remember thinking I can't wait for all of them to die. It was just they're all so bad. Yeah, I mean, yeah, you're right. There's there's nothing really redeeming about any of these characters. There's no sense of I don't know. For me, that's kind of the.
00:48:43
Speaker
When I go to see a slasher, I don't want to root for the villain. I know I'm kind of in the minority here, but I'm actually rooting for the teenagers to survive. But if they're not likable, and that kind of becomes the norm in horror movies up to a point because we have because people are coming back for the villain. So they need to be rooting for the villain, which means they need to be rooting against the teenagers. So let's make these people as unlikable as possible. Let's give our
00:49:10
Speaker
our horror villain a sympathetic origin slash backstory by making a dumb needless prequel movie like Hannibal Rising or Leatherface from 2017. Like, why does that movie need to exist? I don't know. But apparently we need our horror villains to be sympathetic because they're the characters we're rooting for. We're not rooting for the people that he's tearing up with a chainsaw or the people he's eating. You know, it's got to be the
00:49:41
Speaker
I don't know, the rest of it. I don't know, I'm kind of with you. I usually, I've never understood that about some horror fans that they root for the slasher.
00:49:50
Speaker
I mean, that's what I love about the Scream franchise, right? It's a franchise that is built around the survivors. It's built around the people that live, that make it through. That's what I love about it. And the villain is disposable. Literally, the villain is a different person in every movie. I like that. I think that's a lot of fun. And it's kind of, I think, an interesting way to kind of send up a lot of what I would consider the more toxic elements of slasher movies.
00:50:20
Speaker
I mean, the leprechaun is kind of a tangential slasher, I suppose, like. I think he's got a kitchen knife in a couple of those movies, he's got sharp claws, I don't know.
00:50:31
Speaker
I mean, he's a slasher in the same sense that, like, people consider the first Terminator a slasher movie.
Reception and Conclusion
00:50:38
Speaker
Like, it's just he's one supernatural entity picking off annoying teens. Sure. Young adults. That's a slasher movie. Yeah. My man. The touche point taken. I mean, you and you do get a revisit of Jennifer Aniston's iconic line from the first movie. Fuck you, Lucky Charms. What a line. What a moment.
00:51:01
Speaker
Truly the best of cinema. Truly the high point. Cinema has never been the same as it was when...
00:51:11
Speaker
When that happens, man, I don't know. I don't like this franchise. I'm not a fan of this movie. I'm not honestly. And I don't know if this has been clear in some of the the the times we've brought this up before. I'm not a big fan of the the the slasher reboot to begin with. Like, that's not a particular thing I'm fond of, really. It seemed to work very rarely. And only toward the beginning. Yeah.
00:51:41
Speaker
Like, it didn't really seem to work much beyond like the first few entries. Like, I would call Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003 maybe the third best entry in that franchise. Now, again, that's a low bar to clear, but, you know, and again, if you like that franchise, by and large, that's fine. It's not one that I'm particularly fond of, but there you go. Yeah, Friday the 13th, a movie we've talked about. Very, very good. Very, very good remake.
00:52:11
Speaker
Yeah, but I would say that's the exception rather than the rule. Oh, sure. For sure. And we've got all sorts of problems. I do want to say, apparently, I was incorrect. It was not Jennifer Aniston who said, fuck you, Lucky Charms. It was actually Robert Highgorman. So do not come after me, Internet. I can't really imagine there's a whole lot of like leprechaun super fans. Oh, man, you'd be surprised. It's the Internet, man.
00:52:41
Speaker
suppose but Come on it feels like one of those look that the leprechaun franchise feels like one of those situations where You'll go to a horror convention and you'll buy like You'll buy a figure leprechaun and look like I have a leprechaun figure like you buy a shirt with leprechaun on it or you buy like I Don't know like a pillow with a leprechaun on it. You don't really watch the movies it
00:53:11
Speaker
I feel like the leprechaun character has transcended the films. You could probably put him up in the pantheon of notable slashers, but that's not because his movies are good. It's just because he's
00:53:28
Speaker
I don't know if I want to say iconic, but he kind of is like, I mean, the character itself, the character design is fairly iconic. Like that, that I can't argue. And the fact that I mean, because he essentially becomes and I don't know if I mentioned this in the unenfranchised episode or not, he essentially kind of becomes Freddy Krueger in that he starts as this kind of deeply menacing figure that doesn't say much. And then over the course of the franchise eventually becomes a wise cracking, you know, pun making
00:53:58
Speaker
you know, little stinker, I guess. Which, if you ask me, is more accurate to what a leprechaun is? Probably. More mischievous. Right. But, yeah, I mean, it's not a good franchise. It's not a consistent franchise, which, again, is maybe part of its charm. And I think the people that love it love it for those reasons, like that it doesn't take itself too seriously, that it leans into what it is, that it knows what it is, leans into it and doubles down on it.
00:54:25
Speaker
like puts its thing down flips it and reverses it you know that's that's what they love about this franchise for good or ill and i i mean here's the thing this franchise would not have a total of eight entries in it if people didn't love it right but this one seems to be almost universally derided like people
00:54:43
Speaker
do not like the because again at the end of the day it's like who is this for because it's not for fans of the original leprechaun franchise because it has almost no similarity to those films whatsoever and it and people that aren't fans of the leprechaun franchise aren't really going to go out of their way to watch it either so when it comes right down to it it's a movie with no audience built in
00:55:05
Speaker
And then the release schedule was laughable at best. So let's get into this. The movie has a very limited theatrical release. It is the first Leprechaun movie to have a theatrical release since Leprechaun 2 back in 1994. So in 20 years, it's the first theatrical release for a Leprechaun movie in 20 years.
00:55:33
Speaker
It comes out on August 25th, 2014, and then is released on VOD the next day, August 26th, it comes out on VOD. And then the Blu-ray release is just a little over a month later in September, like September 30th. So this movie had zero chance of getting a following, of getting an audience, because there wasn't even a chance to develop any kind of word of mouth.
00:56:03
Speaker
It's really surprising. It's also a WWE produced film. At the end of the day, those were purchased just to be vehicles for the wrestlers and to be just a quick cash grab, a very ill-advised branching out
00:56:26
Speaker
from Vince McMahon. Sure, sure. And I don't know if they still produce movies. I don't feel like they do. I can find out. I don't I don't feel like I've seen a WWE produced movie in a long time. WWE Studios, their last movie was a movie called Rumble, which came out in 2021 on Paramount Plus.
00:56:55
Speaker
And it is apparently, oh, it was that animated film with Will Arnett about a bunch of monsters that wrestle. All right. Well, a theatrically released WWE film. I mean, they're probably fighting with my family in 2019. Oh, that one. Yeah, I remember that one with The Rock and us being able to smell what he's cooking and whatnot.
00:57:23
Speaker
Sure. Actually playing himself in that film. Right. And playing himself bald at a time when he probably would have had hair. I don't know. I don't know either. Do you think The Rock is actually bald and that's why he started shaving his head? Well, if I recall, when he had hair, it was pretty goofy looking to begin with. I mean, he had that like the big pompadour there for a while, right?
00:57:53
Speaker
I don't know. There was a reason people always wanted him to be Johnny Bravo. I seem to remember him with this high hair. Maybe I'm misremembering. Here's the thing. I'm not the wrestling fan. Maybe it's just the way that his head is shaped, but I always thought he had really tall hair.
00:58:17
Speaker
I mean, he had tall hair, but like he never really never had like a pompadour, like play Johnny Bravo style. All right. I am looking at a picture of him from 2009, and that is a very receded hairline. So, yeah, I'm going to say the rock decided to just embrace baldness in the same way that Bruce Willis and John Travolta did. I mean, that tracks by shape. And the guys.
00:58:42
Speaker
I was a very big wrestling fan in the 90s, like most 90s kids were. I smelled what The Rock was cooking. What did it smell like? Pie. I enjoy pie. I wanted to enjoy a can of Steve Wysers with Stone Cold Steve Austin.
00:59:09
Speaker
OK, was that an actual thing? Yeah, it was. Oh, man. See, again, not a wrestling fan. So this is all news to me. And then I stopped in the early 2000s. Probably around 2005. Mm hmm. And then came back to it many, many years later and then fell off again because the WWE is terrible. I believe it. The storytelling is garbage.
00:59:37
Speaker
The wrestling is fine, but it doesn't really get spotlighted, hardly enough. And this is not good, just not good.
00:59:52
Speaker
Yeah. And I mean, again, I'm told that, you know, my flair for the theatrical and my love of the theatrical would probably make me a good hook for wrestling. But I'm just like, it's also a lot of sports and I'm not big on sports. It's not sports. It's not sports, Stephen. It's sports entertainment, first of all.
01:00:13
Speaker
Get that right. Vince McMahon would hate you for calling it sports. Whatever. It's a bunch of athletes and I just. It's not my thing, man. Well, I'm not going to try to convince you because it's not my thing anymore, either. I'm too shy. But yeah, so leprechaun origins. What what what else do we have to say about leprechaun origins, because I am running out of things to say about this movie.
01:00:40
Speaker
Nothing? Nothing at all? I mean, look, what I forgot to mention earlier, as you can say, my favorite kill was the spider ripping. That was pretty cool. Yeah, ripping what's this dude's spine out of his back? That was pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah, I was into that. Yeah, that's pretty good. Wait, hold on. Hold on real quick. Oh, yeah. What happened? Hey, what happened? What happened to the son, the one who was against doing the killing?
01:01:10
Speaker
He pushed his father down the stairs. Right. And then Leprechaun ate his dad. Right. Then Leprechaun came up the stairs and killed him. Oh, did he? Wasn't he the dude that got a spine ripped out? No, no, that was Final Girls gaslighting boyfriend. Was it? Yeah. I'm on my search.
01:01:36
Speaker
Okay, yep, you're right. Ripping his spine out. Sean pushes Hamish in the cellar out of guilt for letting his father and his villagers sacrifice so many people over the years. The leprechaun kills Hamish in the cellar, much to Sean's devastation. Sean has never seen again, colon, presumably the leprechaun killed him too, or he escaped. Seems like a pretty big dangling plot. So maybe that's your sequel. Maybe it's like Sean, Renegade.
01:02:06
Speaker
Yeah, he's the one that helps the Space Marines. I love how completely hooked you are on the Space Marines idea. That's great. I mean, look, you leprechauns Space Marines. I mean, you put an S at the end. Dollar sign. With dollar signs. Right.
01:02:31
Speaker
You just make so much fucking money. Sure. I mean, you're bound to make more than this movie made. Leprechaun Origins came out, as we mentioned, before August 25th, 2014. For a theatrical run so limited, there are no box office receipts. The domestic box office on the numbers is N.A. However, it is estimated that this movie did make about $2 million in domestic video sales.
01:02:58
Speaker
So, you know, we got that going for us, which is nice. The there's not even an estimated budget for this thing, like, man, what what this movie? Oh, well, well, I guess let's do the box office, because why not? In number one, new this week is a movie called If I Stay. What if I stay in second place in its twenty second
01:03:27
Speaker
It's been out for 22 days. It's down to number two. Down from one the week before is Guardians of the Galaxy. It's made $239 million in just 22 days in theaters. So that's something three weeks in theaters.
01:03:45
Speaker
In third place is the Michael Bay produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which has been in theaters for 14 days and has made one hundred and thirty three million dollars. In fourth place is the movie Let's Be Cops. What if we were cops? That movie is down from third place. It's been in theaters for a week and a half. And then in fifth place,
01:04:11
Speaker
a movie I've never heard of opening this week called When the Game Stands Tall, which is, I don't know, probably a sports movie, I guess.
01:04:25
Speaker
I don't know, pretty, pretty, pretty lackluster box office from being honest with you. The rounding out the top 10, you've got the Sin City sequel, Dame to Kill For, which is the reason we can't do Sin City on this podcast. Why would we want to? In seventh place, a movie we probably will cover on this podcast one day, The Giver, in eighth place, The Expendables 3, in ninth place, The 100 Foot Journey, and in 10th place, Into the Storm.
01:04:55
Speaker
So I don't know, there's a box office. That's that box office is about as good as this movie. That's a pretty piss poor box office. Yeah. And the exception of Guardians, it's kind of just it's bad and we're bad. And the Tomatometer score for Leprechaun Origins is zero point zero. It has a zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes based on seven reviews. Big damn oof.
01:05:25
Speaker
to quote someone on letterboxed Leprechaun Origins, more like Leprechaun Borigins. There is actually absolutely no Metacritic score on this movie, and the letterboxed rating is 1.2. Brett, out of five stars, how do you rate Leprechaun Origins?
01:05:45
Speaker
I gave it a one star for the reason I mentioned earlier. There's a skeleton of a potentially good horror movie here and they fucked it up real bad. Yeah. I originally went one and a half, but after talking it over, I'm like, it doesn't deserve more than a one. It's a one for me, dog. It's pretty awful.
01:06:01
Speaker
Again, if you like it, I'm happy for you, but I don't know many people that like this movie. So if you do like it, let us know why. Disenfranchpodatgmail.com. You can also hit us up on the social media. Disenfranchpod on Twitter, Letterboxd, Instagram, and Facebook. You can also follow me. I'm Steven on Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd. I'm at Chewy Walrus. Brett, where can we find you on the socials?
01:06:26
Speaker
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01:06:56
Speaker
a disenfranchised pod where you can find our aforementioned episode on leprechaun back to the hood. Did we think it was better or worse than this movie? You'll have to listen to that episode to find out because we definitely make our thoughts on that pretty clear. At any rate, this has been the Saint Patty's Day episode of the disenfranchised podcast. That was a mess. Hey, I told you they weren't going to be good Irish accents, so
01:07:24
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You get what you get, baby. And I am your host, Steven Foxworthy, for my co-host Brett Wright and myself. They're after me, Lucky Charms! Is this going to be another leprechaun hunt, Steven? Game over, man. Game over.