10 Horror Movie Creature Features That Broke All The Rules

Now listen, no one guaranteed these would all be stone cold classics just because they're all creature features which broke the mould and offered something truly new.

Recently spotlighted by YouTube critics/ amateur film historians RedLetterMedia, 1986's Rawhead Rex is the infamous Ireland-set flick which prompted Hellraiser author Clive Barker to insist that he retain creative control on any later adaptations of his work.

Make no mistake, the original short story does feature a penis-headed demon, so the jury's out on whether this could ever have worked onscreen.

But whilst this quintessentially eighties slice of rural horror is pretty laughable at times, it did cross a line by offing one of the hero’s kids early in proceedings. The eponymous monster tears his way through a rural village with wanton bloody abandon, but none of the gory massacres prepared viewers for the thankfully offscreen scene wherein the titular terror kills and eats a small child.

Silly as the rest of the film can be, it's hard not to admire its daring in this surprisingly effective sequence.