‘The name written in blood!’
Eegah is a 1962 fantasy horror film about teenagers who stumble across a prehistoric caveman who then goes on a rampage.
The movie was directed by Arch Hall Sr. from a screenplay by Bob Wehling.
The production stars Arch Hall Jr. (The Sadist), Arch Hall Sr. (who directed as Nicholas Merriwether, co-produced The Thrill Killers; and wrote The Corpse Grinders), Marilyn Manning and Richard Kiel (The Solarite in The Phantom Planet) in the titular role, the same year he was in the classic Twilight Zone episode ‘To Serve Man’.
Seven foot two inch tall Kiel would go on to appear in House of the Damned (1963) twice play “Jaws”, a James Bond villain in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, star in Italian sci-fi film The Humanoid (1979) and play ghost Captain Howdy in horror spoof Hysterical (1982).
Assistant cameraman Ray Dennis Steckler appears in the picture as Mr Fischer, the man at the hotel who is thrown into the pool near the end. Steckler made his directing debut the next year in the Arch Hall Jr. vehicle, Wild Guitar. Steckler’s first independent feature, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies was later distributed by Fairway-International, owned by Arch Hall, Sr.
Eegah is often cited as being one of the worst films of all time. Unfortunately, there are many worse movies.
Plot:
One night after shopping, Roxy Miller (Marilyn Manning) is driving to a party through the California desert when she nearly runs her car into Eegah (Richard Kiel), a giant caveman. She tells her boyfriend Tom Nelson (Arch Hall Jr.), and her father Robert Miller (Arch Hall Sr.) about the giant. Her father, a writer of adventure books, decides to go into the desert to look for the creature and possibly take a photograph of it.
When his helicopter ride fails to show up at his designated pickup time, Tom and Roxy go looking for him but the latter is soon kidnapped by Eegah and taken back to his cave…
“A horror movie of sorts whose central character is chased away by a barking poodle in one scene, Eegah maintains its level of goofiness with a golly-gee-whizz sincerity that makes it far more enjoyable (read: laughable) than mere run-of-the-mill bad moviemaking.” John Wilson, The Official Razzie Movie Guide book
Trailer:
Free online on YouTube [1080p HD]:
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Budget:
$15,000 (estimated)
Technical specs:
1 hour 32 minutes
Audio: Mono
Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
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