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Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

davidcarniglia Pretty terrible stuff. A caveman giant in the desert wilderness, surviving into the modern age due to an abundance of sulphur in his cave habitat, does...what? Scares a local girl, kidnaps her and her father, and then they just hang out. He does get a mean streak going when they try to escape, but there's no sci-fi involved; he's acts like just another rustic nut. His mummified ancestors are the scary presence. Maybe the sulphur water could've been put to better use by somehow reanimating them. There aren't really any memorable performances here. Richard Kiel is kind of a cool caveman. His better scenes occur when he makes his way to town; "Large man or giant creating disturbance" as the police dispatcher aptly puts it. The scene with the drunk is a good bit: he admits he's got to be pretty messed-up to see the likes of a 7'2" caveman. Eegah also makes a splash at the club; plus its buffet line has he-man portions.It might've been better to explore the comic possibilities of his fish-out-if-water situation. Instead that aspect is just hinted at. Given the more or less serious role he has, Eegah needs some menacing quality: a hideous mutation, possessing some superpower, something more. As big as he is, he's not even that convincing as a giant. James Arness was half a foot shorter than Kiel (ok, probably the same height with his elevator shoes), but was a frightening presence in The Thing. The only scene where Kiel truly looks gigantic is in his first appearance, where he's juxtaposed to Roxy, in her diminutive 'bug-eyed' Sprite. His relative normality increases after he's shaved. When townspeople freak out at his appearance, it's probably at least as much because of his obvious primitivism, than because of his size.It doesn't help that the owl-faced Tom has no charisma. The blending of rocking-and-rolling teens with monsters in 50s-60s sci-fi is infinitely better-handled in The Giant Gila Monster and The Blob. The lead in Gila Monster actually plays a cool character who can sing; Tom's a wannabee.In fact Eegah is a wannabee movie: it's got invited to the sci-fi party, but just couldn't swing.

a_chinn I never thought I'd say it, but "Encino Man" did it better. A group of teenagers come across a caveman and drama ensues. Richard Kiel, best known as the James Bond villain Jaws, plays the titular 7'2" caveman, Eegah. Kiel goes on a rampage smashing cars and chasing teenagers. As you might expect from a film titled "Eegah," it's not a very good movie. Filmed in Bronson Canyon, where other notable turkey "Robot Monster" was filmed, "Eegah" is an indefensibly bad film, but I will say I was quite entertained on a so-bad-it's-good level of entertainment, particularly anytime Kiel got to rampage or was distracted by shiny object from his female captives. It also didn't help the quality of the film when nearly all of the dialogue had to be dubbed because sound engineer on the film failed to record most of the original dialogue. Overall, only watch this turkey if you're in the mood for some Ed Wood levels of bad cinema entertainment.

Michael_Elliott Eegah (1962)** (out of 4) Roxy Miller (Marilyn Manning) is driving through the desert one night when a giant caveman (Richard Kiel) jumps out at her. No one believes her wild story so her father (Arch Hall, Sr.) goes out there looking for him and when he doesn't return her boyfriend (Arch Hall, Jr.) takes the lead. Soon the caveman has a love for Roxy that will stop at nothing.EEGAH is often called one of the worst movies ever made but I have to really laugh at this. To me, many awful quality movies are out there and some of them are so boring that watching the film is like seeing paint dry and having to write a ten thousand word essay on it. Even many big-budget pictures from Hollywood are just downright boring to the point where you can't get through them. That's certainly not the case for EEGAH, which might technically be awful but at least it's entertaining in its own goofy way.Arch Hall, Sr. was trying to turn his son into a superstar, which was the main purpose of this movie. You have him acting and singing like a wannabe Elvis but can you really not watch these scenes and not laugh? Can you not listen to the silly back-and-forth banter between Junior and Manning and not giggle? The dialogue going on during the sequence where the father and daughter are in the cave is without question some of the strangest you're ever going to hear. As for Richard Kiel, he's delightful in the title role and seeing him run around with a club is entertaining! Much more entertaining than the majority of "class" movies out there.Yes, the performances, the direction, the screenplay and just about everything else is awful but this is without question one of the most entertaining bad movies ever made, which is exactly why I'd refuse to call it one of the worst. A movie this entertaining really doesn't deserve to be call the "worst" of anything. EEGAH features some pretty silly stuff from start to finish but as long as you're entertained by it I'm not going to complain.

artpf While driving through the desert, a teenage girl is frightened by a seven-foot giant which appears in her path. After escaping, she returns to the site with her boyfriend and her father in an attempt to find the giant. The father leaves without provisions, including no water in the desert for what he says will be a 2 day trip --by helicopter! Include some time to hear Alan sing his latest hits and his kissing cousin time to pose in her bikini.Then the kids take a dune buggy and get to the caveman quicker than the helicopter! The giant caveman who somehow is now normal sized, proceeds to terrorize them and the rest of Palm Springs, California.OMG this is really a bad movie. But somehow, it's watchable. In a few years the guy who played the monster was the villain Jaws in a Bond flick with Roger Moore.