Review of Rawhead Rex

Rawhead Rex (1986)
7/10
A great low budget monster film with irish people, explosions and good gore...
19 July 2010
Warning: Spoilers
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!
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