Wonderful character development!

Absolutely Fantastic

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Clive Barker is one of my favorite authors and his probably most famous work are stories published in six Books of Blood. First three definitely belong in horror hall of fame. This is adaptation of second story from third book. To what extent is this adaptation faithful to original story I can not say with much certainty because I read Books of Blood last time 17 years ago, but this movie inspired me to read them again as soon as possible. Considering fact that Barker personally adapted story for screen I believe that faithfulness is not too questionable. Story is great and it will be obvious to everyone who ever read any Barker's work that he is behind this plot, even if they did not read this particular story. Acting, directing and effects are decent and atmosphere is right. But Rawhead himself is complete failure. Monster is so unconvincing that he nullifies all horror effects other elements of the movie achieved. They should have used good old tricks to avoid showing it directly. They could have show it in dark, just glimpse of it, or its shadow, or even shoot its scenes through its eyes. If my memory serves me right, in original story that's exactly the way it's done and story is written from monster's point of view. This way they would amplify horror and avoid spoiling everything with stupid and unconvincing monster mask. Overall, this is must watch for fans of Barker and 80's B production, but the rest of you should skip it.6/10

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.

So the year is 2011 and time has not been kind to poor old Rawhead Rex (1986) and the monster horror genre in general.Anyone who has read Clive Barker's short story Rawhead Rex knows that this is a downright disturbing and wicked tale. The monster Rawhead has sexual issues, he hates women, he pisses on priests and has an appetite for eating small children/babies. However, all these awful things are what makes the story such a page turner and adds more depth to what would otherwise be a mindless monster work.The movie Rawhead Rex (1986) suffers from a very low budget. The main offender is Rawhead's mask itself. Its cheap rubber with little to no animatronics and the rubber shakes as the actor tries to move quickly. A higher budget would have done this monster so much justice, if only a creature master like Stan Winston had gotten involved, this would have been a whole different movie experience.I would love to see Rawhead Rex remade today with all the trimmings, but unfortunately Hollywood is a complete mess. Bad actors are thrown into quick PG-13 horror crap fests and CGI technology has become the only main focus of everything.I think it's time for someone to step up to the plate and re-boot the monster movie genre. Rawhead Rex could be an action/monster movie extravaganza if remade correctly. Hollywood simply refuses to take any chances and because of this, the horror genre is more or less dead. In the end, Rawhead Rex is still an enjoyable monster flick for the bored late night horror buff. But it just doesn't measure up to the more well-made 80s monster classics like "Pumpkinhead".

Apparently, writer Clive Barker was so incensed by this laughably bad adaptation of one of his short stories that he decided the next movie to be based on one of his books would be directed by himself (the result being the rather excellent Hellraiser!). I can't say I blame the poor bloke: for an author to see his hard work turned into such a dreadful movie must be a painful experience.It's an experience, however, that fans of really bad horror movies will probably find quite pleasurable, thanks to the fact that it not only features some truly terrible acting, but also one of the least convincing movie monsters of the 80s: the titular monstrosity looks like a bargain basement 'predator' (from the Schwarzeneggar movie)—a bizarre combination of pro-wrestler, a Mad Max-style warrior, and a bog-eyed mutant pig with ridiculously huge fangs!The film opens with an Irish farmer attempting to remove a huge, ancient, neolithic monument from his field (he's obviously a man not too concerned about his country's heritage); when he finally gets the stone to shift, Rawhead Rex, a monstrous, nine foot tall creature that had been trapped underneath, is set free...The rest of the film is pretty much your basic 'creature on the loose' movie (dressed up with some nonsense about a church built on a site originally used in pagan, pre-Christian rituals) which sees the ancient beast creating bloody havoc in the rural community before finally being defeated by 'girl power'. Along the way, viewers are treated to some pretty cheap-looking gore, a funny moment when the church verger is 'baptised' in urine by Rawhead, a shocking performance by the actor playing the scared gypsy kid, and a wonderfully gratuitous spot of female nudity when a woman is dragged though a caravan window by the monster, causing her top to fall off!