Cora Venus Lunny, David Dukes, Kelly Piper

Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man ...( read more  read more... )struggles to stop it.

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R, 1 hr. 29 min.

Directed by: George Pavlou

Release Date: April 17, 1987

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DVD Release Date: October 19, 1999

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  • June 2, 2007
    Great concept by Clive Barker - but the effect is killed by the ultra-low budget, which meant hiring low-rent acting talent and bad sets. A must-see for Barker fans, others will probably find it weak and tiresome.
  • September 17, 2009
    In the 23 years of this movies exsistence I never saw it. In my 22 years of watching horror movies I always wanted to. I remember seeing the box art in the video stores a lot in the late 80's and early 90's and being intrigued, but for reasons unknown never asked my mom to rent ...( read more)it. Time passed and the movie slowly disappeared from rental places and slipped from my mind altogether. That is until about seven years ago when I was reading some stuff on Clive Barker, whose three films I adore, that I came across the info that he had written the script for a film called Rawhead Rex. It all came rushing back to me. I got super excited, but it was too late the dvd was out of print by then and going for an amount I would not shell out. I thought I would never see this movie. For the next few years I read about it online and in books, and heard a lot of bad things about including some nasty comments from Barker himself and tried to convince myself it wasn't a big loss not seeing it considering all the reviews. Well... last night I had my cherry popped. And I must say that most of the reviews I'd read over the past few years where dead wrong. I fucking loved this flick!!Cheesy...yes, but it was wicked fun. And call me stupid, but an Irish trailer park? I always equated trailer trash with the shitty country I live in. The United States. The kid even had a fucking mullet. I almost lost it. Anyway, sorry that the story about not seeing it is longer than my thoughts on the film, but all i can say about it is that it was a blast.
  • July 12, 2009
    If this movie had more than a "Blair Witch" budget, it could've been a great adaptation of Clive Barker's story from "Books of Blood".
  • May 12, 2009
    Formulaic but some memorable scenes.
  • March 13, 2009
    I liked it! It was obviously generic & the creature could've been less comical but i liked it. I like the story. This too would be a real good one to remake w/a bigger budget & better actors! Its weird but its like this movie disapeared off the face of the earth. I tried to rent ...( read more)this all over the place w/no luck. When I ask people about it they look at me like I'm speaking Chinese. I finally watched it on youtube if anyones interested.
  • March 7, 2009
    a true classic from a dark era.
  • December 27, 2008
    Rawhead Rex looked awesome (sorta silly), but he was the only part worth watching. There was some good gore, but a lot of it was boring.
  • September 23, 2008
    Gruesome...that's all I remember about it.
  • June 28, 2008
    I remember liking this a while back, need to see it again to give a good rating:)

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  • MrGrimlock
    July 6, 2007
    The only 2 things I remember from this movie is the Irish girl's boobs and rawhead rex pissing on the priest.

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