Rawhead Rex (2017)

Better Late Then Never

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

The acting in this movie is really good.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

I love all these people urging you to read the story I own the books of blood and have read them many times Rawhead is one of my favorite stories as it is based on the reality that the Goddess was taken out of society by the Greeks and Romans and replaced with a vengeful monstrous god who hates mankind. All that aside the movie follows the story pretty close unlike people claim maybe they need to read it instead of telling others too. The special effects especially Rawhead are awesome for the time and budget, the people who claim they are not are band wagon jumping sell outs who give 10 stars to cgi crap. I would ask them to show me one cgi horror movie that looks even vaguely real at all? And these torture porn movies that so called horror fans seem to like are not horror films they are torture films and the directors can not create suspense or atmosphere so they rely on showing women tied down being cut apart which is infuriating and not scary at all just really small and weak and a disgrace to the horror genre. Rawhead doesn't use the cheap trick of exposing defenseless women or having the characters tied to a chair and instead tells a story. This movie keeps a constant pace of building horror and doesn't try and act hip or cool or throw in lame heavy metal or pop punk or have raw head drop one liners to try and act like its trying to be so. It has good acting even from the children I like it it is a good monster movie and has an unfair bad rap. My favorite reviews are the people who say I used to like this when I was a kid. I would love to know if what they consider kid means teenager,Twenty? I doubt they saw it as a kid come on. And why are these people so open about being sell outs and traitors to the self I will never know? I love Clive he is my favorite author and the only person who has written anything I have read more than one time but I am not him and he doesn't require me to defend him he's man enough to defend himself so I'm not going to pretend to hate Rawhead because of his POV which I do not know. People love watchmen despite that Alan Moore hates it and says they ruined his message and put bad product placement in it? Rawhead doesn't try and reshape Clive's message and Rawhead never opens a can of cola or puts on a pair of phone company logo shaped earrings. The fact that this director kept the anti Christian message and the baptism scene are some of the reasons I love this film that and the prosthetic effects that I miss. People who call for the remake, today this movie would be remade with a pathetic cgi cartoonish look and these same people who said he looked cheesy in the original would go wow that 4th wall breaking animation looks flawless because society and pop culture brain washed me to accept looney toons as realistic. These people need to quit watching movies and just stick to cartoons and video games. I rate this movie high because it is never boring and doesn't stray from the story to try and make the characters hipster yuppies nobody relates too like most so called horror films today that think American Pie is the model for horror heroines and victims. You can watch any original horror movie from Wolfman to Friday the 13th and you never see a band of Stifler's going wooooo I'm so hip and crazy. Like Freddy VS Jason what a piece that is these people should quit making horror and make straight to video American Pie sequels instead.

For a film that quickly found obscurity RAWHEAD REX is a horror film with a very poor reputation . On its release it quickly disappeared without a mummer and even in the VHS era it was a film that hardly anyone thought was worth hiring from a video shop . One legacy it did do was that screenwriter and original author Clive Barker decided if you wanted someone to adapt your work as a film then it's a good idea to direct the movie yourself which led to Barker directing HELLRAISER , one of the most memorable and haunting horror films ever made . So is RAWHEAD REX as bad as is often made out ?In truth it's not dreadful but neither is much good . Seen over 20 years after it was produced there's something painfully old fashioned in every aspect of its conception and execution . ,. A monster stalking the nocturnal countryside , it's something that we've all seen in science fiction B movies from the 1950s or DOCTOR WHO , or read about in medieval folklore , it's a story that's effectively centuries old and RAWHEAD REX brings nothing to to this type of tale . Perhaps most disappointingly Barker brings little new to his original short story and merely pads it out with needless characters and the occasional bloody set piece One obvious problem with the film is the production values which are often laughable and unfortunately this extends to the eponymous monster itself which resembles a man in a badly fitting rubber suit and is never menacing and often laughable as it head wobbles around whilst dispatching sundry monster fodder . victims . . The horror genre is not known for its cerebral ethos but when you've got a monster that elicits chuckles rather than chills then someone has made a huge mistake In summary RAWHEAD REX is a very cheesy old fashioned creature feature . That said it's completely unpretentious which is not something that can used to describe much of Barker's output and many of us have a soft spot for this type of silly B movie horror

To sum up the movie, overall: Rawhead Rex is a monster that hunts and devours young boys, stopping only to violate women, and be worshipped as a God. How does he react to the worship? He pisses over his followers, which they eagerly accept as a blessing from their God.This movie is one of the creepiest and most disturbing ever made, and it doesn't matter how cheesy the makeup is. It's creepy and disturbing for the same reason all of Clive Barker's stories are: it's as much sexual fantasy as it is horror.Clive Barker is the creepy old man that sits on his porch all day, asking the young boys who pass if they'd like to sit on his lap and hear a scary story. We're too young to realize why these stories include so much torture and sado-masochistic imagery, and we understand even less why the storyteller seems so excited as he tells it, made all the more excited by the young listener's fear. As a straight, relatively well adjusted man, these dark dreams are all the more chilling, especially at a young age, when everything is already so confusing. Ultimately, no Clive Barker movie is ever as scary or disturbing as the concept itself, and no movie studio will allow the story to be as dark and horrifying as Clive Barker wants it to be. That's why Clive Barker's stories are so great. It's not really about selling books. It's about satisfying dark urges, and terrifying young boys.What I'm getting at is that it doesn't matter if Rawhead Rex looks scary. It's what he does, and the mere concept of his existence that is both terrifying and disturbing, made all the more terrifying when you're young, because let's face it: If Clive Barker dreamed of hunting and devouring young boys, then plenty of others have dreamed it to...and perhaps they aren't as willing as Clive is to merely allow his dark dreams to remain a fantasy.Like it or laugh at it, the story of Rawhead Rex is a dark reflection of the author's soul, and it is that reflection which is truly horrifying.

Awful, awful, awful. I am so disappointed I wasted 89 minutes of my life watching this dross. I'm thinking of turning to mighty god and asking for those valuable minutes back. I remember wondering into the video shop with a mate asking for a video to 'scare us out of our wits'. He told us about Rawhead Rex, and the box read just what we were looking for. How could we not be scared by something described as Pure evil, pure terror and so on. We had hardly got comfy when the film had started and you saw the 'purely evil' Rawhead Rex in the first nano second of the film. So the suspense vanished in a nano second too. So from there the film, leaps from awful to disgraceful. I never thought that the most 'evil thing in history's' idea of being evil would be to trash a caravan by spilling sugar, smashing trinkets and generally making a bit of a teenage mess. If you do see this video nestling in some box at Oxfam, pay no more than 20p (give a £1 to charity) and are curious about it, I suggest you do watch it, just to see how bad it really is. Then dispose of the video promptly to stop anyone else being exposed to it. I wish I had protested at the time, to the maker and protested in the most serious terms about him taking up another career, and also asking for my £1.00 back. I did ask for that back from the video shop arguing that the goods were not sold as described. I suggest that you just watch the hell raiser films over again and again... and again.