Rawhead Rex (1986)
Rawhead Rex (1986) ★★☆☆☆
He was here before Christ, before civilisation. He was king here! Rawhead, that’s what they called him! RAWHEAD!
“Rawhead Rex”
Based on a short story by Clive Barker.
A monstrous pagan god is loosed when a neolithic stone that held him prisoner is moved. The creature goes on a killing spree to reclaim that which was his.
Clive Barker has expressed a desire to make another attempt to adapt this story, as he was not happy with the final film. Mostly the look of the monster.
I saw this on television when I was about 8 or so. It scared the living hell out of me.
My “Nightbreed” comics that I have managed to track down. This is the closes thing you can get to a sequel to the film. The first four issues adapt the film. I believe that it was based off of Clive Barker’s screenplay rather than the final product that the studio meddled with and ultimately fucked up. It also has some crossovers with other Clive Barker creations. In one storyline the Nightbreed meet and battle Rawhead Rex, and in a special edition they encounter Pinhead and the Cenobites from “Hellraiser”.
