5 Horror Novels That Deserve Film Adaptations (And 5 That Deserve Better)

10. Rawhead Rex - Deserves Better

Released a year before Book of Blood Clive Barker decided to adapt his own work with the iconic Hellraiser, Barker’s earliest adapted work Rawhead Rex deserved better than the unintentionally hilarious eighties horror treatment it received.

Set in rural Ireland, the original story concerns a monstrous entity which represented the most aggressive excesses of the human sex drive, and it was an unremittingly bleak and vicious slice of folk horror which deserves a grim, horrifying adaptation.

Give us the original phallus-headed monster Barker envisioned! But, you know, somehow less unintentionally funny than the rubber-suited monster featured in the 1986 film, whose sexual predilections are played down presumably to appease censors... Only for him to still eat children.

A weird middle ground to choose, that.