Title: Earlier Clive film touches primal nerve
Review: Clive Barker's script to "Rawhead Rex" elevates an otherwise pedestrian horror-thriller. Why? Because of Barker's instinctive understanding was what's REALLY scary: not the Rawhead (in his ridiculous costume), but the underlying pagan and pre-Christian imagery. Notice that this is a "Green Man" production -- the most potent, the most potentially pervasive of all pre-Christian images. I also liked the close-ups of the tombstones in the Irish church yard ... again, reflecting that uneasy alliance between Celtic (or even pre-Celtic) gods and Catholicism. It's a theme that Barker should return to some day ... but with a bigger budget (and better actors!)
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