The story here is that of a writer who brings his wife and kids to the Irish countryside for a vacation, where he also wants to do research for an upcoming book about legends and myths. What does attract the attention are the special effects, the church windows, and how almost normal everything is, and that’s the point, really. It just looks incredibly normal, making a film that comes out of the norm for the usual nostalgia crowd. Then there were movies like Rawhead Rex where people look more like your next-door neighbor growing up there’s just about not a single bright color seen in clothing or décor, cars aren’t fast or fancy, and the food looks like the stuff you’d have at home. Most people remember all the colorful fashion, the flashy looks, the pretty people, and horror films like The Monster Squad, Chopping Mall, and even Evil Dead, which were fairly brightly colored horror films with varying levels of the blood being used. And Rawhead Rex (watch it HERE) is basically the cinematic realization, if that makes sense. This is an exaggeration created through media for the sake of a glossy reality being depicted. The 1980s were a period of overabundance in culture and films it’s a period most remember as being colorful, loud, and filled with bright personalities on television and in film.
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