Leprechaun: Origins

The feature-film directorial debut for Zach Lipovsky, Leprechaun: Origins follows a more traditional horror formula than the original, and sees two young American couples - the career-driven Sophie (Stephanie Bennett) and Ben (Andrew Dunbar), and the laid-back Jennifer (Melissa Roxburgh) and David (...

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Published in:The Irish journal of gothic and horror studies 2015-07 (14), p.132
Main Author: Goff, Loretta
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Celtic languages
Davis, Warwick
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Summary:The feature-film directorial debut for Zach Lipovsky, Leprechaun: Origins follows a more traditional horror formula than the original, and sees two young American couples - the career-driven Sophie (Stephanie Bennett) and Ben (Andrew Dunbar), and the laid-back Jennifer (Melissa Roxburgh) and David (Brendan Fletcher) - travel to a small Irish village in search of Celtic artefacts mentioned in history-buff Sophie's guidebook. While the original leprechaun was a quippy troll-like man in a green suit with a predilection for cleaning shoes, playing twisted tricks, and using his supernatural powers to mimic voices, levitate, teleport, and escape death (except by four-leaf clover), this new leprechaun is a primordial beast that lacks magical power (other than its vision) and brings only villainy and gore to the table. [...]it refers to a mythological tribe of supernatural kings and queens who were worshipped as deities.
ISSN:2009-0374