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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Blistering performances.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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.

An Irish farmer ploughing his fields removes an ancient seal from it, to only release a demon and Howard Hallenbark an American historian on a working vacation in Ireland might be the only one who can put an end to its terrifying rage.An over-the-top and daft, but deliriously entertaining monster (ancient Irish demon) on the rampage low-budgeted opus. "Rawhead Rex" is an adaptation of Clive Baker's short story, who he also penned the film's screenplay. The ideas covered by Baker are unhinged and fascinating enough, but the tacky and sloppy execution of it is hard to take seriously and this especially goes for the monster creation. It's simply looks like a mutated head-banger crossed ape with its rippled muscles, long black hair and googly red eyes attached to a rubber mask. Oh it's a sight --- just wait for its spectacular entrance and you don't have to wait long either! While toweringly imposing in presence I didn't think it created much fear, but it sure was aggressive and destructive when in action/and gnawing upon its victims. Little bit of gruesome gore is chucked in and some bright optical FX work within its climax, but it remains pretty cornball. Where it scored high points for me was the choice of locations, rich rural Irish backdrops were atmospherically brought across and it was professionally photographed. Even the sound effects had certain eeriness and the music score, while overcooked was forebodingly judged. Something about its air had a dark mythical (its religious outlook) / fairytale (good vs. evil) edge, which only cemented how unusual it was and within it had that old-fashion tailoring of older monster features. Only if it didn't succumb to its pulpy silliness, but director George Pavlou (who also previously directed another Baker adaptation "Transmutations") presented some ghastly and humorous moments along with few stunning images. The performances are reasonable, as David Dukes is committed in the central role. Niall Toibin, Niall O'Brien and Ron Wilmont offer fine support. Could have been better, but still trashy fun.

Rawhead Rex (1986) is proof that filmmakers can lack any sense of creativity given a low budget and a list of unknowns to make a movie. The film's scriptwriter, Clive Barker, has every right to be disappointed at the final result.A monster known as Rawhead is resurrected from his underground prison and decides to wreak bloody havoc on an Irish countryside by killing and eating the town's residents. It's up to a visiting American father (David Dukes) to convince the police that a monster is really on the loose.There's not a shred of creativity or believability to be found within its characters (but at least a group of dumb teenagers know it's not right to go out in the woods alone). The characters are dumb and boring and the monster is just what it looks like: a deformed rubber ape with glowing red lights in its eyes to show that it's angry. Compared to the other terrifying movie monsters of our time, Rawhead Rex is one that stoops at the bottom of the barrel.What's laughable is the story and its crucial plot points. Be amazed at how the cops discover that there's really a monster on a rampage. The baffling ending involving cheesy special effects. And oh, you can't forget this one: a scene in which the monster literally urinates on a priest who worships him.The death scenes are hardly creative. They make the ones in the Freddy and Jason movies look like art.Not a lot of resources went into this movie and it shows. If I could, I would name a lot of low-budget films that are more better than this one. Some come in mind, though. How about the one where Clive Barker took the director's chair a year later?

Clive Barker is known for liking things bloody, but apparently he doesn't like them *raw* - and after seeing "Rawhead Rex" I can't say I blame him for wanting to maintain a safe distance between himself and this movie.Rex was apparently ruling Ireland before all the priests turned up and managed to have him banished, which may explain why life before his reappearance reminds one strongly of Craggy Island. Unfortunately, some fool disturbs his burial ground and it's up to a tourist dabbling in amateur photography to try and minimise potential casualties. Not before Rex stomps about tearing limb from limb and seeming rather annoyed about the general imposition, of course...So there we have your solid setup for what should become a decent enough monster movie. Crucially though, what we are lacking is a decent monster. Imagine the original King Kong's uglier cousin, lumbered with a costume creating movement that wouldn't look out of place in a 50's stop-motion Godzilla film. They were all serviceable effects in their day, but this was made in the '80's, and disappointingly things don't seem to have gotten better over time. Add to this some appalling acting - particularly from an evil priest who's brainwashed by his radioactive church into siding with Rexy - and it feels like you're watching a throwback that's unworthy of its place in Barker's oeuvre. Just to top things off, there's a ridiculous finale with effects that rival those of "Hawk the Slayer" in terms of pure naffness.Admittedly, these are all elements that contribute to the entertainment in their own especially awful way, so "Rawhead Rex" is the type of film that might be good for laughs with some alcohol handy. It's just a shame that the crew also look to have had a few too many nips of poteen in its making, as well...