How did I miss this one! The kill count is intense. When you see a character in this film you might have some interest in...well, don't get too interested in them. When in doubt...shred them! Gotta love moviemakers who adhere to that doctrine. She's pretty...shred her! He's a hunk...shred him! They're Irish... shred them all! Cut them in half...eat them...gut them...pull their brains out...be unmerciful. Too pretty to die...nonsense! Also fans of redheads need a vixen hero, hence 2012's "Red Clover," directed by Drew Daywalt.
The ravishing highschooler, redheaded Karen (Courtney Halverson), is hunting in cursed Massachusetts woods with her granddad, Pops (William Devane). She gets lost and finds a red four-leaf clover...and plucks it. Eek...the cursed fauna burns into her hand and a monster leprechaun pops out of the ground and attacks her. She fights it off...but now, according to curse, only has four days to live. Her dad Connor (Billy Zane), the sheriff, doesn't believe her until he and his babe deputy, Jen (Azure Parsons), get really busy with gruesome homicides. People are being pulled apart and half-eaten. Only the drunk Pops believes Karen...and he's sad because he knows the curse can't be gotten rid of.
Karen has hunk and babe high school friends...like I said...don't get too attached to them. Sadly, the St. Patrick's Day Parade queen, the blonde babe Amanda (Kelly Washington), will have her brains pulled out (okay, no blonde jokes here), moments after her mom is gutted by the fiend. So sad. But wait! Karen has a new BF, Dax (Dave Davis) who is into the occult. He and Pops figure out a way to save Karen from a deadly fate. It is a longshot...but the nubile redhead may just be too beautiful to die. Falling back on ancient Irish lore, the trio have a lot of work to do. Eventually, Connor becomes a believer. He has an awful revelation for Karen, and it will ruin her day...you'll see. Now an epic war will take place in the cursed Massachusetts woods (the film is shot in Louisiana)...and the gore that occurs will have you in total awe.
Will Karen survive and defeat the monster she inadvertently let loose? Is the fact that the blonde is shown to have had a brain a revelation that movie makers will take to heart in their future films? Just what epic revelation does the sheriff have for Karen...and why wait until the end of the movie to reveal it? This is one of the best films I've seen in the last 20 years. No other film has captured the ethos of the Massachusetts people better than "Red Clover," so see this movie today.
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