Typical horror set-up: four young friends are backpacking through evil Europe - which just so happens to be Ireland this time, but it doesn't matter cuz if there's one thing we've learned from American horror films over the years, it's that ALL of Europe is filled with tourist-killing psychopaths. They meet a friendly Irishman at a rural pub who shows them to a nice little cabin where they can spend the night. Problem is he's not so friendly once his ulterior motive is revealed which is to lock the hikers in the house and bait the angry leprechaun to come eat them. Turns out the towns people stole the little guy's gold a while back and they need to feed him tourists and give him stolen gold to keep him at bay.
So, obviously they went the much more 'serious' route with this flick, as opposed to having a magical, wise-cracking little green leprechaun running around. Here, they try to include more of a grim, mythological background to it, making the leprechaun a slimy, flesh eating, chicken-legged creature. This would've been fine if they had just put a little more effort into coming up with a unique design for it. It looks like one of the cave-dwellers from "The Descent", which seems to have become a common model for horror creatures these days. It's played by WWE's wrestling midget, Dylan "Hornswoggle" Postl, though he's 100% unrecognizable under all the make-up so I didn't really see the point in casting him, specifically.
As a whole, "Leprechaun: Origins" is a decent enough way to blow 90 minutes. It's standard horror bullshit, but watchable aside from this constant focus-unfocus thing they kept doing when the leprechaun was on screen. So fucking irritating. Overall, though... Meh. It's about average.
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