Reviews

This film isn't a big budget, CGI ladened, epileptic fit inducing block buster, but it's still fun. There are some good moments like the monsters raid on a caravan camp and the stand off between Rawhead, his human follower and the Riot police. The film starts in the Irish countryside with a strange boulder being found out in the fields. A farmer then disrupts the ground with his plow, it gets struck by that awful lightning thats 2D pasted onto the screen. Anywho, surprise surprise, it's the tomb for the title monster, who then rips the farmers face off, good introduction, Rawheads skills as a people person is shown further by having him kill another farmer, then, in a random scene, spare his wife for she's pregnant, or something. All through this, a strange alter glows red and disrupts morning mass. Then, a camera man realises more about Rawhead, who then kills his son. It's not done on screen, but, it's still quite disturbing, better than if it was done on show. He then, goes on a personal vendetta against the monster. After, Rawhead destroys a caravan park. This is where the best parts lie. People are thrown around, ripped apart, explosions happen cause someone falls and shoots a gas line. It's great, cheesy, and a gruesome. After, this policeman gets possessed by Rawhead, he leaves his partner to death in the car and goes to the church where the police have blocked off because, Rawheads in there, and his crazy priest friend. So, crazy cop blows up the police and burns to death, the vicars ripped up, the alter turns out to be hiding their statue that will kill Rawhead, then 80's special effects kick in, Rawheads dead, kinda... There's, many more points of interest, but, I don't want to ruin the whole film for you, watch it for yourself, it's a good cheesy movie, just, don't treat it seriously and it'll be a good time.

Also, you do not want to screw with Rawhead, he is a beefy thing that'll screw you up!

I saw this after most people had, so my expectations we're high. After watching it, I had realised I never had so fun much fun watching a monster movie. I used to love Godzilla movies but after a while, the fun just was sucked away as I grew up.

Then, I went to see this. It was so adult and so personal, it packs a heavy emotional punch. It had me thinking what I would do in a situation like that, how I would react with my friends dieing around me while being stalked by a creature in one of the largest cities in the world.

The beginning makes you show compassion towards the characters, it shows their personal lives and drama's we've all faced at one point in our life, then, it all gets turned upside down. The hand-held camera doesn't catch everything so it's like your watching from a first person perspective so you see what the characters are seeing from there perspective like when the army roll down the streets and Hud the cameraman ducks behind the cars as you hear the monster roaring, it adds that fear and terror as you feel like you hiding with him.

Then there is the monster. The monster is the most important part of a monster film, of course, and the production team have really made a monster to be scared of. Also, the idea of it shedding off little parasite creatures adds to the fear and terror and confusion that the characters on screen feel.

A must see, but is best viewed in a cinema if you caught it or with a home cinema system for the effect.

A brilliant masterpiece of monster film making without the tacky cheesiness of a B-movie.