It's not so much bad as it is boring; the gaps between the deliciously bad bits are often long and action free. It's also missing a necessary element of camp and delightfully bad dialog, more of a Dick and Jane mentality that is historically interesting only because it features future Bond villain Richard Kiel. Heading to a nightclub one night, Marilyn Manning runs over what she believes to be a giant, or a caveman. Boyfriend Arch Hall Jr. agrees to help her find him, and somehow, Manning and her father end up as unwilling guests of the obviously lonely Kiel, perhaps the long lost cousin of Joan Crawford's pal, Trog. Hall spends the time roaming the desert, avoiding rattlesnakes, coyotes and large lizards while Manning gives Kiel a shave and a haircut. Her reward? A grunt suggesting that she take a look at his etchings. It gets momentarily very funny and even a little touching when Kiel grunts his way into his reluctant guest's heart. But it's just so silly when it's trying to be even remotely intelligent science fiction. The film is truly low quality, with very tinny sound, faded color, cue card reading style acting and the feeling of being rushed out. I find it strangely endearing, however, because after Hall's sneering, drooling performance in "The Sadist", he seems surprisingly normal in this. I'm just glad that acting wasn't his first choice of a long term career. Kiel's performance can just be described as one that has to be seen to be believed, and I mean that as nicely as possible. At least he got the free shave. The film seems to come to a conclusion an hour into the film, but makes the audience suffer for another half an hour, pretty much going nowhere but down. By this time, any intentional humor has vanished, and the temptation to hit fast forward becomes overwhelming.

"Eegah" is probably one of those movies that had a few gems under piles of rubble. The overall story of Eegah sounds like that of Nephilim and I instantly loved it because of that. However, a great story hook (at least for me) can't just dangle in the background which is pretty much what happened here. With all the really terrible scenes of random dune buggy'ing, ugh music, uncomfortable exchanges between the "father and daughter"... Far too much clutter, basically. I'm not going to lie, I'm a bias Richard Kiel fan and I had such a huge crush on him ever since I first watched this movie (I was about 13-14) and Jaws?! He's just too amazing. Which I think was the only redeeming quality of this stinker. Despite my complaining, I think leaving Eegah's background (well, all information really) a mystery was a pretty decent way to go. Though there were many, many....many! parts of the movie that were just unwatchable, the underlying main plot and Kiel struck my heart. (Reasoning for really generous rating.)

Unlike other movies that have been on Mystery Science Theater 3000 I did not watch this movie through that, I instead watched this through the modern day Elvira show (I'll review that after this) so the movie centers around a caveman who is 7 foot tall and scares the crap out of Roxy, a supposed teen and has a boyfriend who likes performing music as a non-sequitur and considering this person is played by the director's son I would not be surprised if he had his own wannabe pop band that he wanted hits inserted into the movie so he could be what The Beatles were... it's all speculation but considering how not-relevant to the plot it is right down to Roxy having no problem with him singing songs about other girls it's pretty sound. So anyway they look for the caveman and find it and he has evidently survived all this time, untouched by civilization because "shut up it does" and takes a liking to Roxy. So they try and get away from it and the caveman tries getting to her apparently not taking "no" for an answer and gets killed once it goes back to civilization as we're supposed to feel sorry for it. This movie is not interesting - the plot is ridiculous, the acting is annoying and it could not be more evident of it's low budget and it gets per-occupied with shooting crap Arch Hall Jr music videos.

Teenagers stumble across a prehistoric caveman, who goes on a rampage after his romantic advances are pooh-poohed.The only film directed by writer-actor Arch Hall Sr, which also happens to star his son, Arch Hall Jr (whose career seems to only exist because of his father's influence -- he never appeared in anything noteworthy). It remains a fun b-movie because of its casting of Richard Kiel, and because of the additional exposure from "Mystery Science Theater 3000".This is not a good film, but it is not a terrible film. A bit of editing here and there and it might actually be decent for what it is. Then again, maybe I am giving it too much credit. But how much can you ask of a caveman movie that had a total budget of $14,000?