Rawhead Rex (2017)

Instant Favorite.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

The acting in this movie is really good.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

RAWHEAD REX is a very cheesy old fashioned creature flick. The cheesiest 80s special effects imaginable. The movie is silly but it is SO entertaining. Although the ending was kinda dumb. Saw this in the late 80s on a rented VHS rental The settings right, with sweeping landscapes, dense forest, and luscious mountains are put on full display. But the films effects are shoddy, acting is terrible, and ending isn't all that satisfying. The creature itself maybe looked scary back then, although nowadays a rubber mask doesn't work too well. Very low budget. The main offender is Rawheads mask itself. Its cheap rubber mask. It just doesn't measure up to the more well-made 80s monster classics like Pumpkinhead.

This film isn't a big budget, CGI ladened, epileptic fit inducing block buster, but it's still fun. There are some good moments like the monsters raid on a caravan camp and the stand off between Rawhead, his human follower and the Riot police. The film starts in the Irish countryside with a strange boulder being found out in the fields. A farmer then disrupts the ground with his plow, it gets struck by that awful lightning thats 2D pasted onto the screen. Anywho, surprise surprise, it's the tomb for the title monster, who then rips the farmers face off, good introduction, Rawheads skills as a people person is shown further by having him kill another farmer, then, in a random scene, spare his wife for she's pregnant, or something. All through this, a strange alter glows red and disrupts morning mass. Then, a camera man realises more about Rawhead, who then kills his son. It's not done on screen, but, it's still quite disturbing, better than if it was done on show. He then, goes on a personal vendetta against the monster. After, Rawhead destroys a caravan park. This is where the best parts lie. People are thrown around, ripped apart, explosions happen cause someone falls and shoots a gas line. It's great, cheesy, and a gruesome. After, this policeman gets possessed by Rawhead, he leaves his partner to death in the car and goes to the church where the police have blocked off because, Rawheads in there, and his crazy priest friend. So, crazy cop blows up the police and burns to death, the vicars ripped up, the alter turns out to be hiding their statue that will kill Rawhead, then 80's special effects kick in, Rawheads dead, kinda... There's, many more points of interest, but, I don't want to ruin the whole film for you, watch it for yourself, it's a good cheesy movie, just, don't treat it seriously and it'll be a good time.Also, you do not want to screw with Rawhead, he is a beefy thing that'll screw you up!

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?