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Sunday 24 May 2015

Rawhead Rex (1986)

Choosing to remove an ancient standing stone that’s on your land might be viewed as a good decision in some parts of the world, but not in Ireland because it might just be a powerful seal keeping a savagely pissed-off and murderous part of the island’s pagan past trapped beneath it.
Rawhead Rex does a few things well. The elevated camera angles and tense music are excellent and if not for his stupid rubber face and joke shop eyes the creature would be a terrifying creation.
Unfortunately, the end result excised or downplayed most of the original story’s subtext, keeping just the aggression for the most part.

2½ jugular veins out of 5
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2 comments:

  1. cuckoo24 May 2015 at 08:17

    I don't have the heart to revisit this one again as it broke it with it's shittiness.

    Rex looks a googly eyed penis with a severe infection.

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  2. Dr Faustus24 May 2015 at 13:04

    When it goes POV or focuses on his abrupt movements it’s aggressively good, but that face... :notgood:

    A drunk with a balloon and some papier mâché could've made a better one.

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