Rawhead Rex

There are two good reasons why British horror author Clive Barker decided to direct his own stories (beginning with HELLRAISER [1987]): one is UNDERWORLD (1985) and the other is RAWHEAD REX, both produced and directed by the same inept team. Although Barker wrote both screenplays and director George Pavlou is his friend, neither film captures the essence of the Barker stories from which they are derived. Set in Ireland, RAWHEAD REX begins promisingly enough as a farmer decides to dig up an ancient stone that has been standing in his field for centuries. He unearths a huge, snarling, legendary monster, an ancient god of the days before Christianity--Rawhead Rex (pla...