Barker's badass

                                                       Introducing the movie of the day.

RAWHEAD REX

                              

                                                  If you must, then you can watch it right here.

RAWHEAD REX is the film adaptation of a short story by Clive Barker. In this film, a man travels to Ireland to research religious artifacts. He witnesses a farmer trying to remove a stone pillar from his field. Let's just say that isn't the best idea because this thing is basically a big wine bottle cork holding down one nasty fella. An ancient pagan demon known as Rawhead Rex.

In addition, Rawhead also has a brainwashed deciple of doom named Declan O'Brien, who became insane after touching an altar and given hideous visions.

Rawhead feels fit to baptize the man by pissing on him, because that's how demons roll. Basically the plot consists of the researcher following Rawhead's trail of destruction and murder, unraveling the story behind the beast and looking for a way to defeat him.

In the meantime, the old brute rampages through the Irish countryside, maiming and mutilating the population as he goes.

I haven't watched this film in years and was surprised to find it on YouTube. My memory is rather rusty to be honest, hence the vague plot details. I may have to watch this one again myself. I recall loving it as a teenager during the late 1980s. 

Barker himself did not like the film adaptation of his story, mainly feeling that Rawhead looked entirely wrong. His creation is described as a "nine foot phallus with teeth" and later incarnations from the Nightbreed comic books seem to follow this idea.