EEGAH (1962)

EEGAH (1962)

Tagline: The Crazed Love of a Prehistoric Giant for a Ravishing Teenage Girl!

(Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy) [PG]

Note: This movie was not given an MPAA rating, but likely would have landed a [PG] just due to the fact that this does have a few horror elements. 

It is a footprint! There's the heel and there's the toe.

First off, I know I have sci-fi for the genre up there and it’s because this movie is often sold with sci-fi movie collections. It also features a caveman and nearly everything that came out in the 50s and ’60s that had a caveman or a dinosaur was categorized as sci-fi. This one is also often listed under the fantasy and adventure genres. 

In this storyline, a teenage girl named Roxy nearly runs into a giant caveman on the road that they later start calling Eegah. Roxy tells her father and boyfriend about the giant and after discovering footprints Roxy’s father Miller goes to look for this beast. After not arriving on time to a rendezvous Roxy and her boyfriend Tom go looking for Miller and we end up with a spiral or running and chasing and screaming and Eegah talking to his dead relatives. So you know…nonstop excitement. 

This is another one of those crappy 1960s films that sucks on just about every level possible. Some movies on “worst movies” lists are actually so bad they are good, this one is so bad it’s horrifyingly bad. A huge chunk of this movie takes place in a cave with Roxy, her dad, and Eegah. It seems like they could have easily cut 20 minutes off this thing just to make it a little easier to handle. 

This movie has some pretty crazy issues like in one scene where Eegah gets shot and pretty much just shakes it off. We also get a bible verse that mentions giants as being Genesis 4:32 only there isn’t a verse 32 in that chapter. They were likely referring to Genesis 6:4. The bible actually references several different peoples that were giants who biblically would have been considered anyone between 6’10” and 8’7”. The tallest NBA player was 7’7” but the tallest people currently living in the world range from 7’7” to 8’3”. So the entire idea of biblical giants isn’t even remotely far-fetched even from the most skeptical viewpoints. 

Acting-wise, Richard Kiel (THE PHANTOM PLANET) who plays Eegah in this movie is a towering 7’2”. He doesn’t really have any dialog in this movie outside of grunting nonsense. Arch Hall Jr. appears in this as Tom and he does a decent job, but just for this movie. Hall Jr. ended up in 8 movies and seems to have stopped acting in 2018. Then we have Marilyn Manning who was only in 3 movies playing Roxy. She is also just okay for this movie. You really can’t blame the actors and actresses for one of the worst scripts known to mankind. 

On a good note, the music isn’t terrible and one scene even has a live band. This movie was also in “The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made” list so there’s that. 

I feel like recommending this would get me punched, so the best I can do is give it a 2 out of 7. This thing is just really terrible and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

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