Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.
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| David Dukes | ... | Howard Hallenbeck | |
| Kelly Piper | ... | Elaine Hallenbeck | |
| Hugh O'Conor | ... | Robbie Hallenbeck | |
| Cora Venus Lunny | ... | Minty Hallenbeck (as Cora Lunny) | |
| Ronan Wilmot | ... | Declan O'Brien | |
| Niall Toibin | ... | Reverend Coot | |
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Niall O'Brien | ... | Det. Insp. Isaac Gissing |
| Heinrich von Schellendorf | ... | Rawhead Rex | |
| Donal McCann | ... | Tom Garron | |
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Eleanor Feely | ... | Jenny Nicholson |
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Gladys Sheehan | ... | Ena Benedict |
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Madelyn Erskine | ... | Alice Gibson |
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Gerry Walsh | ... | Dennis McHugh |
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Noel O'Donovan | ... | Mitch Harney |
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John Olohan | ... | Dennis Nicholson |
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Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.
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EnglishRelease Date:
17 April 1987 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Det. Insp. Isaac Gissing: Yes. They're all dead.
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Lyrics by John M. Neale
Music by Michael Praetorius and George Ratcliffe Woodward
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The comic book Robbie Hallenbeck is reading in the car is Marvel UK's Secret Wars #37 (Dated 15th March 1986) See more »Goofs
The police have "Police" on their body Armour. Since this film is set in Ireland, they should be known as "Garda". See more »Quotes
Reporter: Are there any connections between the murders?Det. Insp. Isaac Gissing: Yes. They're all dead.
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That Eastertide With Joy Was BrightLyrics by John M. Neale
Music by Michael Praetorius and George Ratcliffe Woodward
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"Rawhead Rex" was one of several "unknown" films I prided myself on "discovering" during the late 1980s, when friends would visit for a day or four. I seemed to have a knack (seemingly lost, now!) to pick out videos I had never heard of, which turned out to be surprisingly quite good. Rawhead Rex was one of these.
I found it a quite riveting, scary movie. As with almost all horror movies, I thought a few things could have been done better. Still, Rex was infinitely more satisfying to me than a number of present-day "horror" flicks which center on someone hacking people up with a knife for no apparent reason or which drift confusingly between reality and halucination.
I thought the monster looked pretty convincing -- then again, I was weaned in the pre-Speilberg era. I have to agree with the reviewer who said the scene where Rex kills the farmer in the shed and the wife sees him from the kitchen window, then tries to hide, is quite scary. So was the boy glancing up from his comic books in the van, to see Rex standing outside.
I loved the touches with the stained glass puzzle & the chief detective's stunned "I'll be d****, the Yank was right" when he looks at the horrific crayon drawing made by the young survivor of the trailer park attack, too stunned to speak. (The severed arm was a very nice touch, too.)
Anyone who thinks Rawhead Rex was "hilarious," is no horror fan. It may not have been one of the genre's best efforts ever, but it was one of a number of very meaty horror flicks of the 1980s which are still have plenty bite today (pun intended)!