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Spilled Inktober day 17: inspired by a Clive Barker story
#this is an excerpt of a longer work that can be read at the link#i chose the story rawhead rex though really i was more inspired by the film adaptation (also written by barker)#spilled inktober#spilled ink#id in alt text#poetry#tcp#patreon#my writing
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Rawhead Rex by Vojislav Jankovic
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NST #944: Rawhead Rex (1986)
A classic map and string variant appears in multiple scenes in Rawhead Rex (dir. George Pavlou, 1986).
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Stats from Movies 801-900
Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes
Thirst (2009) had the most votes with 1,097 votes. Captain Clegg (1962) had the least votes with 413 votes.
The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage
Fright Night (1985) was the most watched film with 32.8% of voters out of 665 saying they had seen it. Zibahkhana (2007) had the least "Yes" votes with 0% of voters out of 444.
The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage
The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) was the least watched film with 68.3% of voters out of 492 saying they hadn’t seen it. Sewing Love (2023) had the least "No" votes with 5,9% of voters out of 523.
The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage
Fright Night (1985) was the best known film, 14,6% of voters out of 665 saying they’d never heard of it.
The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage
Zibahkhana (2007) was the least known film, 93% of voters out of 444 saying they’d never heard of it.
The movies part of the statistic count and their polls below the cut.
Near Dark (1987) The Wrath (2018) The Uncanny (1977) Fright Night (1985) Zibahkhana (2007) My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987) Willard (1971) Woman's Wail (1986) The Atticus Institute (2015) Resurrección (2016)
Nanny (2022) The Lodgers (2017) Dead Birds (2004) The Medium (2021) Captain Clegg (1962) The Flesh and the Fiends (1960) Hagazussa (2017) The Priests (2015) The Wailing (2016) The Devil's Doorway (2018)
House of Usher (1960) Shutter (2004) Without Name (2016) Lake Bodom (2017) The Axe Murders of Villisca (2016) Under the Shadow (2016) Southbound (2015) The Dybbuk (1937) The Golem (2018) Invaders from Mars (1986)
Birth/Rebirth (2023) Dave Made a Maze (2017) Await Further Instructions (2018) The Beast Must Die (1974) Imprint (2006) A Wounded Fawn (2022) The Housemaid (2016) Slash/Back (2022) Slumber Party Massacre (2021) Sissy (2022)
In The Spider's Web (2007) Maneater (2007) Stigmata (1999) Resurrection (2022) The Pale Door (2020) Jack Frost (1997) Return of the Fly (1959) She Will (2021) Spiral (2019) The Strange House (2020)
Mary Reilly (1996) The Binding (2020) 32 Malasana Street (2020) The Strange House (2015) Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight (2020) The Reaping (2007) The Moth Diaries (2011) Let Us Prey (2014) The Possession of David O'Reilly (2010) The Burrowers (2008)
Cruel Peter (2019) Sewing Love (2023) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971) Darkness Falls (2003) Night Killer (1990) Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022) Black Sunday (1960) Superhost (2021) The Puppetman (2023)
Tom at the Farm (2013) Malum (2023) Suitable Flesh (2023) The Deep House (2021) Winifred Meeks (2021) Son (2021) The Banishing (2020) Alone with You (2021) Enys Men (2022) The Unkindness of Ravens (2016)
Sennentuntschi (2010) The Queen of Spades (1949) Super Dark Times (2017) Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach (1970) Life (2017) Citadel (2012) Creep (2004) Thirst (2009) The Canal (2014) A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
The Innkeepers (2011) The Sacrament (2013) Apollo 18 (2011) The Outwaters (2022) Horror in the High Desert (2021) Spring (2014) The Uninvited (2009) The Grudge (2020) The Messengers (2007) Rawhead Rex (1986)
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fun find at the used bookstore the other day since their horror section is usually pretty sparse. had to stop myself from saying Holy Fuck out loud upon picking it up and seeing that guy. retro horror book covers you will always be famous to me
as for the actual stories inside,
son of celluloid - really cool concept of a monster in a movie theater that can like send your ass to the Movie Dimension and shapeshift itself into old film stars to lure you in with a beloved face and gets stronger the more it is "perceived"
however i really did not understand part of the lore of this creature which was that it partially grew out of cancer cells...?? what does that have to do with the rest of this... and unfortunately this story gets bogged down with the central POV character who is a fat woman, which is obviously fine, but like half of her narration is just thinking about how she hates being soo fat and how men aren't into her which is just. :/
also it made me question if clive has ever actually seen dumbo. dumbo's ears were his notable feature, my guy. that's kind of the whole thrust of the film.
rawhead rex - this is the only one i'd heard of in advance and it's certainly... memorable.
again the idea here is kino with this beast from ancient times being unleashed on this blase little british town and kind of plunging them back into a more primal state of being. the descriptions of rawhead and especially of him eating the children is like. viscerally freaky and horrible.
but the decision to write some scenes from the POV of rawhead himself is... i dunno. like i do think the story would feel a bit unfinished without his perspective so it's more How they're written, i guess, in this very normal voice that just makes him come across as a simple animal crossed with a petulant cruel teenager or something, and thus kind of ruining his scariness. maybe that was part of the intention and i just didn't fully get it? to me it would've been better for his POV to read as very stylized & different from the humans somehow.
and god i wish there didn't have to be so much piss involved. the demonic watersports scene got me staring off into the distance with a tired resignation
confessions of a pornographer's shroud - relatively simple ghostly revenge story. due to being told in big part from the POV of the ghost i can't call this one particularly scary, but the base idea of taking the silly halloweencore ghost wearing sheet and turning that into an actual serious haunting is fun.
scapegoats - a ship gets beached on a creepy little island they hadn't even noticed on the map which turns out to be a burial ground for tons of unidentified bodies who washed up there during the world wars.
the ending bit of this one was pretty effective but i can't get over my disappointment that this island wasn't more like lovecraftian in origin, which felt plausible based on initial descriptions of it. half alive corpses are scary sure but i wanted At The Shitty English Island of Madness instead.
also there's one part that felt straight out of one of junji ito's weirder oneshots which made me laugh out loud and im not sure the humor was intended.
human remains - sex worker goes home with a guy and finds some kind of sentient human sized statue in his bathtub which then proceeds to start following him around and taking on his identity & exact appearance.
probably my favorite in this book which feels odd to say since it's the least horror out of them. the MC's reaction to this creature eventually becomes almost friendly or loving, and the creature is polite and well spoken and though it kills people it generally only does so to live. very interesting. a story that it's difficult to imagine a straight author writing. could probably read some layers of metaphor into it if you were inclined
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Underworld will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on December 19 via Kino Lorber. Featuring reversible artwork with its alternate title Transmutations, the 1985 British horror film is spine #5 in the new Kino Cult line.
George Pavlou (Rawhead Rex) directs from a script by Clive Barker (Hellraiser) and James Caplin. Denholm Elliott, Steven Berkoff, Miranda Richardson, Larry Lamb, Art Malik, and Ingrid Pitt star.
Underworld has been newly mastered in 4K from the 35mm original camera negative with Dolby Vision/HDR. Special features are listed below.
Disc 1 - 4K UHD:
Audio commentary by director George Pavlou with film historian Stephen Thrower (new)
Disc 2 - Blu-ray:
Audio commentary by director George Pavlou with film historian Stephen Thrower (new)
Transmutations - 103-minute alternate cut
Behind-the-scenes footage
Gallery of stills, storyboards, makeup tests, and Clive Barker designs
When high-class hooker Nicole is kidnapped, businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex-lover, the devil-may-care Roy Bain, to find her. Bain traces her disappearance to the diabolical Dr. Savary, who supplies a weird white powder to a secret cabal of mutant sewer-dwellers. Under the city, out of sight—they wait!
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#underworld#clive barker#horror#80s horror#1980s horror#british horror#kino lorber#kino cult#dvd#gift#ingrid pitt#denholm elliott#steven berkoff#miranda richardson#art malik
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i’ll never forgive the film industry for doing what they did to rawhead rex the whole overarching theme of the story was gynophobia and the horrors of hypermasculinity so what do they shit out? a sexless demon ogre dressed like a leather daddy
#where are the spontaneous erections when praying to his altar. tell me#admittedly it was nice seeing the priest piss scene in the flesh but that’s my only praise for the movie#r
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Should "Rawhead Rex" be considered folk horror?
I would say so! It's definitely an unconventional folk horror- most folk horror films are less actiony than Rawhead Rex. But it has all the important genre signifiers, namely being set in a rural small town with a strong emphasis on local history, culture, and religion.
Tonally its very different than like, The Wicker Man, but horror is nothing if not a versatile genre.
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466 : JS77 – C1E25 ‘Hell’s Event Part 1’
Welcome to the Clive Barker Podcast, and part 25 of our Dungeons and Dragons game, Jericho Squad 77, set in the capitol city of Yzordderrex in the second dominion.
Hearing news about a mysterious race against the Hells with the leadership of squad 77 on the line, the team Investigates Beatrix and learns why this race is happening, and how it involves Chur ‘Do’Vir’s pact with the Gulfs.
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Rawhead Rex (1986)
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Synopsis – A U.S. historian (David Dukes) takes his wife (Kelly Piper) and son to an Irish town where the oozing devil incarnate dwells. Director – George Pavlou Starring – David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Hugh O’Conor Genre – Horror | Mystery Released – 1986 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. “Rawhead Rex” is a horror film adaptation of Clive Barker’s short story of the same name. Released in 1986, the…
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#1980s Cinema#★★★★#cinema#David Dukes#film review#Film Reviews#George Pavlou#Horror#Hugh O&039;Conor#Kelly Piper#movie review#Mystery
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Watched Midnight Meat Train! I liked it overall.
SPOILER THOUGHTS
Liked the practical gore (BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD!), ambivalent towards the super cheesy CGI splatter nonsense, it was bad but also.... it was a little fun. It was a little fun to see those eyeballs go everywhere.
Like the alteration to make the protagonist a photographer and give him a girlfriend, it helped pad out the short story in a way that had me pleasantly engaged, this may be entirely because I like when disheveled scruffy white men go crazy in movies. Need a girlfriend to be there like "babe what's wrong you're being consumed by your weird obsession with this guy, babe pls :(" I'm down with the way that Mahogany had a sixth sense and especially liked how it tied him to Leon. They were vibing in nemeses together.
Deeply disappointed to have no giant lovecraftian horror at the end. I don't think I liked the ending all that much? The conductor was ok, but it's more enjoyable to have whatever the fuck was in the short story. And that little film fight setpiece area was so cool! All nasty and bone covered, you should have just slapped a shadowed horror in there to deliver your expository dialogue about
I feel like you lose something having movie!Leon completely consumed by the Butcher role, it's more fun in the short story where like, the City Fathers are this huge revelation about him understanding the city and finding super fucked up meaning in his life. They set this up at the beginning of the film! It's all about movie!Leon's desire to understand the city and see it and he does by the end! But it cost him everything! But like, idk it's a little goofy to see him wear the suit and do the thing with his hair, especially when you know he's not like, all gone personality wise because of the photo. Idk too much emphasis on him losing his girlfriend (even though I liked her, sorry Maya) by the end, not enough mind-being-blown-by-the-ramifications, especially since the film sort of sets it up like he's being like, supernaturally chosen by the city to do this duty. The little speech went on for a tiny bit too long and the heart thing made me LAUGH and we didn't even get to see him eat it or anything, should have been like a minute longer to lose himself and he should have eaten that heart. ....This isn't weird I'm not being weird about it. <^< I think he should have killed her. It's about being consumed by the thing, you know, becoming a part of the system. He should have been pushed to do that himself would have been more gut wrenching. This is why I like the short story. ANYWAY.
Was very pleased to see so much Clive Barker art in that gallery though. VERY fun little treat for me specifically.
also bless Vinnie Jones he was an absolute gem in this, definitely the star, you will watch it for this man butchering people with a meat cleaver and sitting in his little subway seat like >:I
I think.... I think I've seen all the "core" Clive Barker movies now? I keep forgetting I've seen Rawhead Rex, but I'm pretty sure I've seen Rawhead Rex.
#the dragoon diaries#midnight meat train#horror#clive barker#in the short story this fucked up thing answers a need he has to be meaningfully part of the city#in the movie he is called to do it by his drive to see the heart of the city but in the end does it just because he has nothing left#which is ok#but I DO SO ENJOY when people lose themselves in the bad thing#I may..... be a little bit of a whump enjoyer
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#rawhead rex#imagine you had a family grave here#i dont recommend this film lmao#you may need to crank your brightness
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Rawhead Rex (1986) - Trailer
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