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Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We have one awesome episode in store for you guys because we’re talking 2004’s Blade: Trinity and 2013’s Leprechaun: Origins, and we’re joined by Chris Reject of Lehigh Valley Apparel Creations to promote the upcoming Steelstacks Smackdown pro wrestling event on August 27th, 2022!
First off thank you to the fine folks over at Lehigh Valley Apparel Creations, the premiere screen-printing company of the Lehigh Valley. Chris Reject and his merry band of miscreants are ready to work with you to bring to life your vision of a t-shirt for your business, band, project, or whatever else it is you need represented by a shirt, sweater, pin, or coozy. Head on over to www.xlvacx.com to check them out. Thank you also to Essex Coffee Roasters, our newest sponsor. Head to www.essexcoffeeroasters.com to check out their fine assortment of coffee and enter CINEPUNX in the promo code for ten percent off your order! And as always thank you to our Patreon subscribers. Your support means the world to us and we are eternally thankful. If you would like to become a Patron, head to patreon.com/cinepunx. Thanks in advance!
We start by talking about some of the stuff involving horror recently. Liam talks about the film The Righteous as well as Netflix series Sandman. Chris talks about seeing Nope and revisiting Evil Dead II. Justin talks about seeing the films Prey, Day Shift and Hypochondriac, as well as attending the recent Monster Mania Convention in Cherry Hill, NJ.
We start with Blade: Trinity. We talk about the films troubled production history, some of the spotty CGI, and the “roundly reviled” nature of the film.
We discuss the fact that despite having not just a solid cast, but a solid comedic cast, it is largely unfunny and most of the actual jokes fall horribly flat. We generally didn’t enjoy this film, and don’t have much good to say about it.
We talk about how the film feels like a project in which the lead checked out and everyone else involved didn’t know what to do. We talk about how the film is bad in a way that goes above and beyond other “bad” films we’ve covered are.
Up next is Leprechaun: Origins. We talk about our feelings on the franchise as a whole, and how despite its shortcomings the first film at least has a distinct leprechaun in it, as opposed to this one which is just a generic creature that has little to no connection to the mythos of leprechauns.
Justin and Chris discuss the film’s weak attempt at a “morality in duress” story. We talk about the uneven pacing of the film, the unearned drama, the “Google expert” bullshit exposition, and more of the film’s lack of leprechaun-related shenanigans.
Justin gets upset about how there’s no magic way to kill the leprechaun and yet somehow this creature has an entire village in its thrall.
First and foremost, thanks to Chris for joining and watching these horrible movies for us. Also, thank you for listening and to everyone and anyone who donated on Patreon, checked this episode out, or shared a tweet/shared a post on FB/gave us love by recommending us to someone. We love you forever for listening and donating. Any questions, comments, suggestions for movies and guests, or if you yourself want to join us for a movie viewing or even an episode, can be sent to [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! Thanks always to Justin Miller, Jacob Roberts, Paul Sharkey, and Doug Tilley for their technical contributions and fliers, Mike Smaczylo for the shirts and fliers (you can check more of his work out at here), and also thanks to Josh Alvarez for the theme song, Chris, Brad, and LVAC for the support and buttons (check them out at www.xlvacx.com and on Twitter), Essex Coffee Roasters (www.essexcoffeeroasters.com) and a HUGE thank you to anyone who retweeted us or shared something on Facebook that we posted. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @thehorrorbiz666, like us on Facebook at facebook.com/thehorrorbiz66, check out our Spotify account at Cinepunx, and remember to rate, review, and subscribe to us on ITunes. In fact, if you write us a review, email us with your mailing address and we’ll send you some free pins and stickers! Check out www.cinepunx.com for more info on some of our other podcasts, some ultra stylish Cinepunx related merchandise, and how you can donate to our Patreon! Until next time…thanks!
