Nice effects though.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

A giant caveman inexplicably appears out of the desert and encounters a teenage girl named Roxy in whom he is immediately curious. Roxy's devoted Rock-n-Roll boyfriend Tom stumbles along and unwittingly scares away the giant. Later, after her escape, her father Mr. Miller is skeptical of her story but appeases her by going out the next day, along with Tom, to search for the enormous man. Much to their surprise, the two men discover the giant's footprints, which they believe are headed toward Shadow Mountain. Roxy's father heads out with camera in hand to try to photograph the giant and is dropped off near Shadow Mountain via helicopter. Unbeknownst to Roxy and Tom, Roxy's dad has been locked away behind a large stone in the giant's cave dwelling. Having failed to return from the desert, Roxy and Tom search for Mr. Miller while enjoying an oddly cheerful, Rock-n-Roll spin through the desert. After a close midnight encounter with the giant, Roxy is ultimately taken captive and reunited with her father in the giant's primitive cave. Roxy soon discovers much about the giant, who has more charisma and humanity than expected. While Mr. Miller and Roxy are sympathetic to the giant—Eegah they now call him—they begin an awkward cat and mouse game with Eegah to distract him as he takes an obvious interest in Roxy's perfume and womanly charms. As Eegah's advances become more aggressive, Roxy finally convinces Eegah to go out with her. But as Eegah starts to molest Roxy and attacks her father for trying to escape, Tom conveniently appears with his rifle and wounds Eegah. While Eegah is a menace without malice, Tom also feels sympathy for Eegah and can't kill him. As the three make a clumsy escape, Roxy looks back at Eegah in sadness, bewilderment and concern. Back at the cave, Eegah decides he can't live without Roxy and tracks her back to town. As Eegah makes his way to the loud Rock-n-Roll party where Roxy and the teens in town have gathered, calamity ensues and the police are called to investigate. Back at the party a sullen Roxy confesses to her father that she has a funny feeling that something has happened to him, to Eegah. Her father empathizes and tries to console her. And Tom tries to lift Roxy's spirits by dancing with her. But an upstart rival boy tries to cut in. As a fight breaks out between the boys, Eegah appears over the fence and the fight turns on Eegah, adding to Roxy's dismay, fear and concern for Eegah. Eegah grabs Roxy and attempts to flee with her in classic Hollywood style, but the police appear, draw their guns, Eegah tries to beat back the police but Eegah is shot repeatedly and falls dead into the pool. As the teenagers ask if he was real, Mr. Miller gives Eegah his rite of passage, "It says so in the book of Genesis, 'There were giants in the earth in those days.'"

About 5 years ago I set out on a quest to watch as many bad movies I could stand and this was one of the first ones I saw. The budget is low, and it's a "caveman meets Beverly Hills story", to give you an idea of this movie's quality. However, what makes this flick strictly better than a lot of stuff I have watched since then is that it's so easy to make fun of. There were five or six times that this movie was quite (unintentionally) funny. I've watched comedy movies where I have laughed quite a bit less. What makes this movie so bad, and so funny (at points), are the stupid musical numbers. There are 3 or so of them and they're so bad, oh so very awful. The guy's girlfriend is named "Roxy" and one of the musical numbers is all about a girl named Valerie, what the crap!? If you want to watch a classic bad movie and laugh at one of the corniest flicks in existence, this is it. If you are bored by the rest of the movie just try and stay for the awesomely bad musical numbers.

If there's a plot, there's no need to recap it.Dare I say it. The movie at times shows flashes of competence, but fortunately these pass quickly. Now, why our flimsy skirt girl prefers Pillsbury Doughboy Arch Hall Jr. to a guy who could make big bucks in pro-basketball is beyond me. The trouble is our lonely pre-historic man hasn't learned how to court a woman. Instead, he paws her like an awkward first date. Likely it's the flimsy dress she's wearing. Then too, introducing her to the folks is like a tour through an Egyptian mortuary. Still, she does eventually see advantages to his size. Probably that's because Hall Jr.'s hair-mop seems to be devouring his head. But, better an over-grown grunter than a 3rd-rate rock and roller who bleats out bad tunes. Poor Eegah. His worst mistake was wandering into civilization in pursuit of his ladylove. If only he had seen King Kong, he'd know better. Frankly, I was rooting for the Big Guy the whole time. Maybe that way, he would have kidnapped Hall Sr. and Jr., thereby sparing us further installments of home movies like this one.

Eegah! One of Le Bad Cinema's most notoriously terrible productions, was directed by Arch Hall Sr. and released on June 8th, 1962. Featuring a small cast of schlock actors and actresses including: Richard Kiel, Marilyn Manning, and Arch Hall Jr., the film has obtained "Fifty Worst Films of All Time" status as stated by Michael Medved. Although the film in itself is rather boring and especially cheesy, watching the film with commentary from the cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is truly hilarious. The overall plot of Eegah is particularly unbelievable and based on absolutely no scientific basis. However, numerous films have followed the same format and are still moderately enjoyable such as Demolition Man. So, what exactly makes Eegah different? Besides its ungodly explanation for how Eegah survived for the past several hundred years, the acting isn't top notch either. Basically, the storyline follows a teenage girl as her and her boyfriend go on a scavenging hunt through the desert for a genuine caveman she ran into a few nights ago. Her father, played by Arch Hall Sr., actually went out looking for the giant also after listening to his daughter's claims of nearly hitting one with her car. Somewhere along the way, Roxy is kidnapped by Eegah and dragged away to his cavernous encampment where he is also holding her father. Once within Eegah's home, her father, Robert explains how he has begun to unsophisticatedly communicate with the Neanderthal. Eegah then presents his mummified relatives to Robert and Roxy, receives a shave, gives them a glass of sulfur water, and even attempts to sexually harass his new female companion. All the while, Arch Hall Jr., has been reluctantly scouring the desert-side in his dune buggy looking for his comrades. Upon discovering their location, Roxy and Robert break free of Eegah's clutches and hop in the dune buggy. For the next subsequent fifteen minutes, Eegah chases them around the entire hillside until they finally lose him. The film ends when Eegah finds his way into a party being hosted by Roxy and picks a fight with two cops each carrying a .357 Magnum. Although the ending was a rip-off of King Kong and The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari, in total, Eegah was a good yet terrible film. Its main strong point was its affinity for making me laugh due to the sheer level of nonsense filled within its scenes. However, as a warning, if I hadn't seen it with commentary from Mystery Science Theater 3000, I might not have appreciated it as much.