Directed by: Arch Hall Sir
Starring: Arch Hall Jr, Marilyn Manning, Richard Kiel, William Watters (aka Arch Hall Sir)
Plot: Richard Kiel plays a caveman/giant who almost gets ran over by a dumb rich girl named Roxy. She passes out from the fright of seeing a caveman giant thing and when she comes too she tries to explain to her father and boyfriend what happened. Of course they don’t believe her. So she bugs the crap out of them till they decide to go on a journey to find this so called caveman.
Review: This is one of the greatest “so bad it’s good” movies ever made. Everything about this is pure high grade cheese. From The bad title music till the pool party at the end, it’s all poorly done. The Opening credits are a hoot. It consists of fake blood on rocks for titles in eegah’s cave, goofy looking toy corpses, a smoke machine set on median and bad guitar music in the background. It really sets us up for the crap storm to come.
Arch Hall jr is one of the worst actors I’ve ever seen. The way he reads his lines always makes me start laugh uncontrollably. It’s like he’s half drunk with an earache. His best scene involves him singing to a group of teenagers. Only thing is that it’s about a girl named Vicki and his girlfriend’s name is Roxy. God What a goofball. For some reason everyone thinks he’s the star, but that job goes to Mr. Kiel. The Look on his face while he plays eegah is priceless. It looks like he’s half pissed and half” I’m about to pass out”. Also most of his dialogue is just yelling “eegah” or some strange mix of that and another word. He hams up the whole show. Now on to Roxy, she’s played Marilyn Manning who goes for the dumb valley girl with a heart of gold. Her acting is not as bad as Arch’s but it’s still pretty bad. Last and least is Arch hall sir. I have to be honest if this was a slasher flick I would want him to die first. His not that bad as a actor it’s just I can’t stand him.
The setting of this film is why I like it so much. It’s a desert and I love movies in deserts. It gives the movie a cheaper feel and you can tell that’s why they choose it. The Cave set is awesome; it’s so cheap and goofy. It looks just like the one used in Robot Monster (1953).
One of my favorite scenes in the movie is when the trio goes to the place where Roxy saw the caveman. While there walking out of the blue some random voice yells “watch out for snakes”. I don’t know where it came from; it’s not one of the cast members. My only guess is that it’s a blooper where the director was warning the actors and it was left in.
Another scene that’s stuck in my mind is where the young couple is riding in a dune buggy. As they race around they both yell “wee”. Man this movie is cheesy gold.
Overall: Eegah was a fun monster/caveman movie and one of the worst in a good way.
5/10 Remember to watch out for snakes.
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