Really piss awful film based on a Clive Barker short story, of which I've never had the chance to read. Though I'm sure that even if the original story is not all that great, it still has to be loads better than this film, of which Barker has tried to distance himself from through the years. To be fair to old Clive, I think he wrote the screenplay and that's about the limit of his involvement concerning this mess. In the Irish countryside a farmer removes a rather phallic looking tree/statue from his field, not knowing that a monstrous demon is sealed in his earthly tomb by the tree/statue thing. Seems that back in the old days Rawhead was sort of a demigod demon type who laid claim to the loval area or something. The locals had enough of him and placed him in his earthly tomb, till the present day when he is unwittingly released. So, in a puff of smoke and lightning, Rawhead rises again to munch on the locals, piss on priests, and reestablish himself as lord of the area. I will say that for being a supposed god, old Rawhead is actually pretty lame. He's about 9 feet tall, has a big, fake, rubbery head and eyes that glow red, reassuring the viewer that he is demonic. He also looks fairly gay when he runs. The f/x is pure crap in this one, as is the acting, story, ...hell the whole damn thing blew. Watch for the part where Rawhead goes to rip out the priests throat, in which the blood does not start to spray until 5 seconds after he starts to get bit. When it does start to gush, you can tell that they did nothing more than hold a hose full of fake blood up to the dudes neck. God-awful. The best part of this one is watching the possessed priest overact and utter lines like "you're going to meet my god, fuckface!" A really terrible film, and coming from me that's saying a whole helluva lot.