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==Summary==


A U.S. historian (David Dukes) takes his wife (Kelly Piper) and son to an Irish town where the oozing devil incarnate dwells.

==Details==

* Release Date: 1986
* Country/Language: UK/Ireland/USA, English
* Genres/Technical: Horror, Fantasy
* Runtime: 1 hr 29 min
* Starring: David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Hugh O'Conor
* Director: George Pavlou
* Writer: [[Clive Barker]]
* Producer/Production Co: Alpine Pictures, Green Man Productions
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI0nhiSKOCY link])

==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===

* Rated: R (Violence, Profanity, Adult Content)

===Tentacle Ratings===
A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)

The original short story was somewhat more "Lovecraftian" than the film adaptation, which seems to have lost a lot of Barker's subtlety and symbolism (if [[Shub-Niggurath]] is taken as a Lovecraftian deity of the feminine principle incarnate as a monster, then Barker's Rawhead is something of the male counterpart, a kind of pagan hyper-masculine "sealed evil in a can" accidentally released on a rural Irish town, where he can only be defeated by pagan symbols of femininity hidden under the local church run by priests turned cultists).

''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===

Review Links:
* Hypergorea, ([http://hypnogoria.blogspot.com/search/label/Rawhead%20Rex link]) - "Really the movie needed to build more of an atmosphere of a dark fairy tale, with a greater sense of the rural landscape - in other words, in needed to draw on the very folk-tales from which Rawhead sprang...."

==Synopsis==

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A U.S. historian (David Dukes) takes his wife (Kelly Piper) and son to an Irish town where the oozing devil incarnate dwells.
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==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===


===Associated Mythos Elements===
* fiction: "[[title]]"
* ''[[Tome1]]''
* [[Race1]]

===Keeper Notes===


===External links, See Also===
For more rural Lovecraftian horror, see also:
* ''[[Children of the Corn (1984 franchise)]]''
* "[[The Colour Out of Space (fiction)]]"
* ''[[Pumpkinhead (1988 franchise)]]''


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 * fiction:  [[Clive Barker]], "Rawhead Rex" (from ''Books of Blood'')
-* Deity: Rawhead Rex (compare/contrast to [[Shub Niggurath]])
+* Deity: [[Raw Head and Bloody Bones|Rawhead Rex]] (compare/contrast to [[Shub Niggurath]])
 * Artefact:  Stone Idols, Altars, Monoliths, etc.
 * Race: human cultists

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-A U.S. historian (David Dukes) takes his wife (Kelly Piper) and son to an Irish town where the oozing devil incarnate dwells.
+A U.S. historian takes his wife and son to an Irish town where the oozing devil incarnate dwells.
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-A U.S. historian (David Dukes) takes his wife (Kelly Piper) and son to an Irish town where the oozing devil incarnate dwells.
+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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