Rawhead Rex
So I think THIS may be the worst movie I've watched so far for this horror challenge. I was really looking forward to seeing this in order to complete my viewing of Clive Barker's movie work, but man, this was bad. Not good bad either.
#1. Movie credits at the beginning are in the Papyrus font. Not ok. I don't care if Rawhead's origins are supposed to be from when, I don't know, papyrus existed.
#2. The monster design is ridiculously bad. The head looks like it was basically one of those rubber horse head masks. Also, the monster had really ripped abs and this weird punk rock sort of outfit and retractable Lee press-on nails.
#3. Story was boring and not even gross or scary.
#4. The wife is super annoying. She gets all pissy at her kids and husband and at having to travel, but it seems like she also insisted that the whole family joined in on this guy's work trip in the first place. She is also weirdly sexual but in a gross PG13 mom way (I know, I sound super not cool towards women.) And then she turns out to be the hero! Bleeeeh.
Only good character was a priest that got possessed or something and then developed tourette's. Also, at one point he implores the monster to baptize him, so the monster pees on him. That's the ONLY interesing part.
The end.
Recommended by Paris
Reviewed by Noël
The baptism may be the best part of the story its based on too.
ReplyDeleteDoes the monster also have light up eyes?
ReplyDeleteYes, and they were hypnotizing to anyone who stared too long into them. There was also a reference to Rawhead's reluctance to harm a pregnant woman, so he just rendered her crazy. I imagine something a bit more interesting may have happened in the written story? I feel like Barker can be a bit more complex when dealing with women in his writing, but the movie interpretation felt very drained on any nuance.
DeleteAs I recall the story is very much a pagan Male vs Female thing. I think the mother dies right away in the story.
DeleteI am trying to remember this movie, but for the life of me, I cant' remember what "weirdly sexual but in a gross PG13 mom way" means. haha, it's actually making me think about watching this movie again
ReplyDeleteHahahaha she just really gets into french kissing her husband in public and it goes on a little too long and then later she is like don't leeeeaaave meeee when they are in bed. I think she's supposed to be horny or something, so I guess it makes sense if she's supposed to be the embodiment of feminine pagan power? I don't know; kind of stupid.
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