Eegah! (1962)

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Eegah was one of those science fiction B movies, for me, that you could sit through and get a good laugh out of it, but not necessarily love it. I mean, the concept is pretty cool, a caveman is living on his own in the wilderness somehow unaware of the modern world around him. This could loosely be based on the story of Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe whom was discovered in California as recently as the 1900s. So yea, the concept is good, but the acting is shoddy and the storyline tends to jump around a lot. Overall, it's a decent film, but not a great one.

I was bored with this film right from the start. I hit the fast-forward button then back to normal speed for the ending. I realize this film is something of a cult classic but right now I'm not "feeling it". I might try watching this film again in the future - maybe if I'm in one of my really dorky moods and want something stupid to watch but that might be a very long time from now.I bet Eegah is where Encino Man (1992) lifted it's idea from. A caveman in the current modern times. I got a few giggles out of Encino Man, but I didn't crack a tiny smile nor giggle to myself at Eegah. Eegah bored me and had me rolling my eyes at it.1/10

Say what you like about this film but it's certainly a one off. Some folks will no doubt consider this a blessing of course. For me, this is a strange and trashy movie that is worthy of its cult status. It's not exactly good as such but it's a unique oddity and for that it scores some points. The story is about a giant caveman called Eegah who has somehow survived into 60's California by living in a cave in the Mojave Desert. His life is complicated when he falls in love with a young woman who discovers him by chance. And from here on in a bunch of stuff happens.Production values are rock bottom and the acting is really bad but none of that damages the film very much. The ridiculous story doesn't need production values. What we do have though is the somewhat unorthodox leading man Arch Hall Jr. in the role of the rock 'n' rolling boyfriend. He intermittently calls a halt to proceedings and knocks out one of his rock 'n' roll numbers. This adds an extra layer of unusualness to proceedings, giving Eegah yet a further string to its bow. The scenes with Eegah and the girl and her father in the confines of his cave are also worthy of note. In the sense that they are very dodgy indeed! At one point the daughter shaves her father, which I have to say just felt wrong on a number of levels. And then later she is roughly fondled by Eegah while her strange dad impassively looks on. Again, the tone and handling of the scene is bordering on being fairly inappropriate in a film that otherwise would probably be a kids movie. Still, its details like that that simply add to Eegah's bizarro reputation.It's bad but sort of quite good at the same time. Whichever way you look at it, it's far superior to the much bigger budgeted but essentially quite similar California Man from 1992. That one starred the appalling Pauly Shore – give me Arch Hall Jr. any day of the week over that guy!

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?