WakenPayne 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.

Bezenby It took three attempts to get through this one. That's not a good sign. First time round I thought 'this looks like a slow one' and set it aside to watch during the day. Then I get round to watching it during the day and fall asleep after half an hour! Arch Hall Jnr and his girlfriend Becky (I think), are to meet up somewhere or other so that Becky can show off her new bikini. Arch works at a petrol station and feels the need to gibber on to customers about this, while spilling gasoline everywhere. Then he apologises about that and starts rabbiting on again. The customer in this scene also appears to be drinking a beer. By-gone days indeed.Becky's driving along and manages to knock down a massive caveman played by Richard Kiel (we've all got to start somewhere I guess). She freaks out and the caveman runs off. Arch and her dad don't believe a word of it, but then decide to go out to shadow mountain to track down the caveman.This is where we run into Beast of Yucca Flats territory and the film becomes boring to the point of pain. Dad gets captured by Eegah. The kids run around looking for him. Becky gets kidnapped by Eegah. The viewer gets bored. Arch runs around looking for him. Becky and Dad try and communicate with Eegah. The viewer falls asleep. Becky teaches Eegah how to shave (no, really!). Eegah draws a picture of her. The viewer slips dangerously into a coma.If you're reading this at all then you've heard this film is one of them 'so bad it's good' bad movies. It's not. Robo Vampire is a so bad it's good film. Eegah is just boring. Even the chase through the desert is boring. It only picks up in the last ten minutes when Eegah arrives in town looking for Becky. Arch Hall Jnr gets some musical numbers in which isn't too bad.The worst thing about this is that it was made by the same folks that made The Sadist! Now that's a good film! See that one instead and avoid this one.

cobern_usmc The film I chose to review for Le bad cinema is Eegah which stars Arch Hall Jr., Arch Hall Sr., Marilyn Manning, and Richard Kiel. This movie is the story of a couple of teenagers that stumble upon a giant caveman in the desert and have various encounters with him throughout the film. At the beginning, Roxy Miller (Marilyn Manning) is driving down the road in the desert and almost crashes into Eegah (Richard Kiel). She gets away and tells her boyfriend Tom Nelson (Arch Hall, Jr.), and her father Robert Miller (Arch Hall, Sr.) about her crazy encounter with the cave man. Her father gets the bright idea to venture off into the desert alone to try and get a photo of Eegah. He then arranges to have a helicopter drop him off in the desert then come back to get him at a certain time.Tom and Roxy begin to worry because Mr. Miller has not yet returned so they take Tom's dune buggy out to look for him. Eegah kidnaps Roxy and takes her to his cave. This is where we see the traditional "monster carrying the girl" scene. Once inside the cave Roxy finds her father alive but with a hurt arm. It becomes apparent that Eegah is attracted to Roxy and her father pretty much just tells her to keep him distracted and to give him what he wants so that he doesn't kill the both of them. I found this part of the film actually quite priceless. Eegah leaves the cave for a short while but blocks the door so that Roxy nor her father can escape. Roxy then decides to give her father a shave to help him feel better. When Eegah comes back he notices Roxy shaving her father and decides he wants one too. Tom finally makes it to the cave and helps his girlfriend and her father escape the mighty Eegah with his trusty dune buggy.It takes them a while to finally get out of the desert because they keep getting turned around as Eegah continues to chase after them in hopes of getting Roxy back. Eegah follows them all the way back to civilization. He ends up on a small rampage at the party where Roxy and Tom are. The cops are called and when they arrive they unload their pistols on Eegah and shoot him to death causing his body to fall into the swimming pool. At this same moment Mr. Miller quotes some sort of bible verse that just wasn't even necessary to be in the film.This film was made very low budget and even though it wasn't that great I enjoyed the story line and got a few laughs out of how badly made the film actually was. During the cave scene it's quite obvious that the insides of the cave walls are made out of some sort of cloth resembling thick sheets. Overall I would recommend this film for other people to watch if they've got nothing better to do. It's literally so bad it's funny. Watching this film on the episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 made it even funnier.

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.