User blog:Mattia Garavini/Pure Evil proposal: Rawhead Rex

Let's venture in the Barkverse to talk about one of the most dickish monsters ever, Rawhead Rex.

What's the work?
Rawhead Rex is a short story by Clive Barker, which is a part of his third Books of Blood anthology from 1984.

A farmer in England digs up a large monolith stone in his lands, only to set loose a malevolent monster from the past, called Rawhead. Free from the prison that had held him for centuries, Rawhead then proceeds to cause mayhem across the countryside.

Who is he and what he has done?
Rawhead Rex is the titular monster from the short story of the same name by the horror author Clive Barker, and its 1986 fantasy horror film adaptation of the same name. The original short story was published in the third volume of the Books Of Blood series. Rawhead's looks in the short story are different from his movie counterpart. Clive Barker described the monster as a 9 foot tall walking phallus with a large mouth and teeth, while in the film, he looks more like a traditional ogre dressed like a death metal fan.

Rawhead is a monster from the days before Christianity, released from the earth in a small English village. Rawhead promptly dispatches the man who dug him out and sets about trying to regain his kingdom. The first thing he does is to murder a farmer, eat the man's little daughter alive and also kills the man's pregnant wife before attacking a police car, castrating the survivor of the crash and then burning him alive. Rawhead corrupts the local verger and hideously mutilates the reverend out of contempt for his "weak" religion abd he also kills the hero's son and eats one of his organs at a time like if the poor kid's body was a plate of pastries. At the story's climax, Rawhead attempts to burn down all of Zeal in his fury. Unlike many literal monsters, Rawhead is a sentient being that amounts to a brutish and perverted bully who loves carnage, pain and especially eating children.

Freudian excuse
Nope.avi

Heinous standards
A monster in every sense of the word who loves to engage in eating children, killing and mutilating grown adults, commit blasphemous acts because he sees christianity as a weak faith, raping women in ancient times and burning whole villages.

Final verdict
I say he's vile even for revived ancient evil standards. Keep.