Rawhead Rex

Rawhead Rex is a 1986 British/Irish horror film directed by George Pavlou and written by Clive Barker. The film is about a monstrous pagan god's bloody rampage through the Irish countryside, and based on the short story by Clive Barker that originally appeared in vol. 3 of his Books of Blood series. Pavlou and Barker had previously worked together on Transmutations (also known as Underworld)'. Accompanied by his wife and two children, Howard Hallenbeck (David Dukes) travels to Ireland to research items of religious significance for a book he is writing. He leaves his family at a motel and goes to a rural church to photograph some graves. Meanwhile, three farmers are attempting to remove an ominous stone column from a field. Two of the...