Eegah

Starring:Carolyn Brandt, Bob Davis, Arch Hall Jr., Richard Kiel, Bill Lloyd, Deke Lussier, Marilyn Manning, Addalyn Pollitt, Bill Rice (II), Ron Shane, Clay Stearns, Ray Dennis Steckler
Studio: Alpha Video
Product Type: DVD

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A classic episode of the cult television series (in which an amiable space janitor and his metallic pals are forced to watch and deliver a sardonic running commentary on terrible movies), "Eegah" stars the gargantuan Richard Kiel (who would later become known for his sensitive portrayal of Jaws in a couple of the Bond films) in the title role as a still-kickin' Neanderthal looking for a little love in swinging 1960s California. One of the worst (or best, depending on your point of view) films ever to be featured on the show, this excruciating waste of celluloid provides ample fuel for Joel and the 'bots to deliver a wildly diverse, sustained barrage of hilarity (including an in-depth discussion of the widowed dad dichotomy of '60s sitcoms) at the source material's full expense. Enjoy, and remember to "watch out for snakes." (You'll understand after viewing.) --Andrew Wright

Customer Reviews:

'Watch out for snakes'.......2007-06-08

Nuff said really! Love this film

As Egah rips out and holds aloft swimming pool steps: 'That's a strange thing to weild.'

A must have for all MST3K fans........2007-03-10

Joel and the 'bots at their best.
Oh this movie deserved this kind of riffing.

Two Clubs Up For Eegah.......2007-02-09

"Eegah" is a deliciously contrived, pointlessly filmed movie about a caveman run amok in downtown Palm Springs. Roxy Miller (a girl who is all thorax) runs into the neanderthal one night with her car. She seeks solace from her oily father, Robert Miller (played by Arch Hall, Sr., the man who also wrote and directed this festering blister of a film), and her equally oily boyfriend (Arch Hall, Jr., proving that creepiness may actually be hereditary), who agree to help her find this mysterious mammoth-man, played by Richard Kiel (better known as Jaws from "The Spy Who Loved Me"). What ensues are a variety of hi-jinks (or low-jinks, as the case may be), more than a few whiny musical numbers, and an ending that is lackluster, shoddy, and pretentious.

Perfect! Joel and the bots have struck comedic gold with this gargantuan bit of cinematic gristle. The riffs and jokes rarely let up, and swing around the typically-diverse mistie range. There are avant-garde quips, kooky observations, obscure cultural references, witty inside jokes, and, of course, running gags ("Watch out for snakes!"). In between enduring horrific clips of this nauseating foolishness, the Joel and the bots wax philosophic about evil's more insidious forms, the plight of early sitcom single parents, and how the incidental music was made for such shows as "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Petticoat Junction" (hint: it involves unprocessed bacon).

The movie is just bad enough to be fertile ground for funnies, but there are also almost unendurably disgusting moments, including the icky relationship between Roxy and her father, Arch Hall, Jr.'s face (he has the skin texture of a grapefruit, the complexion of magma, the facial features of a ferret, and hair like a bleached oil slick), and a seriously sick scene involving shaving foam (I was eating nachos at the time and, no fooling, I almost had to excuse myself). In between this are lackluster beach part musical numbers, girls screaming, and Joel getting jiggy to a dune buggy overdub.

Buy it, watch it, love it. Laugh. And, as has been said many times before, watch out for snakes.

Eegah indeed.......2006-06-25

A young woman named Roxy Miller played by the adorable Marilyn Manning (The Sadist, What's Up Front?) encounters a strange being while driving out one night. That being is indeed a Neanderthal giant named Eegah played by the great Richard Kiel (Moonraker, Happy Gilmore). Arch Hall, Sr. (Wild Guitar, The Sadist) plays her father Robert Miller who gets kidnapped by Eegah. So, Tom played by Arch Hall, Jr. (The Sadist, Wild Guitar)and Manning go off to find her father. Roxy is eventually kidnapped by Eegah and he brings her to his cave where she finds her father alive and well. Eegah lives in a cave with only 3 drawings on the wall and some dead corpses who he talks to. Eegah even gets his long beard shaved by Roxy. As soon as Roxy, Mr. Miller and Tom escape....Eegah goes on a rampage across Palm Springs terrorizing all in his path. Probably one of the worst movies I've seen in my life. I didnt see the Mystery Sceience Theater 3000 episode with this in it and I want to. I really didnt care for it really. I hated Arch Hall, Jr's hair and singing. Behhhh! Eegah is exhaustingly mindnumbing. Arch Hall, Sr. wrote, directed and starred in it.

"There were giants...the Bible says so!".......2006-06-17

Well, the Bible says a lot of things. Doesn't mean we should make movies about them. From the opening shots of the actors names painted on the cheap haunted house decorations that pass for Eegah's family, you just know this is going to be that special kind of schlock, like "Teenagers From Outer Space", that will win an eternal place in your heart. Arch Hall jr. gives David Love a serious run for his money as the lead, a goofy haired valley boy with a dune buggy that looks as if it's falling apart and a pack of overdubbed songs. His girlfriend hits a giant caveman, played gallantly by Richard Kiel, with her car. Her pops (played by Arch Hall Sr.) sets off onto a desert mountain to find Eegah, with the two kids in hot pursuit. The mysterious "Watch out for snakes!" that seems to come out of nowhere earns frequent mention, but Eegah! is full of great corny dialogue. "Now, my credit cards are in the desk drawer. You make sure you leave them there!" "Large man or giant creating disturbance". Feast for the ears of the comically inclinded. Get the Sci-Fi Classics 50 movie pack, which also includes classic schlock like TFOS, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Mesa of Lost Women and the Horrors of Spider Island.

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'Watch out for snakes'
A must have for all MST3K fans.
Two Clubs Up For Eegah
Eegah indeed
"There were giants...the Bible says so!"

Eegah
Starring: Carolyn Brandt , Bob Davis , Arch Hall Jr. , Richard Kiel , and Bill Lloyd
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
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Release Date: 2002-10-22

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Customer Reviews:

'Watch out for snakes'.......2007-06-08

Nuff said really! Love this film

As Egah rips out and holds aloft swimming pool steps: 'That's a strange thing to weild.'

A must have for all MST3K fans........2007-03-10

Joel and the 'bots at their best.
Oh this movie deserved this kind of riffing.

Two Clubs Up For Eegah.......2007-02-09

Eegah indeed.......2006-06-25

"There were giants...the Bible says so!".......2006-06-17

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Eegah/The Giant Gila Monster
Starring: Eegah , and Giant Gila Monster
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Release Date: 2005-03-22

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Embarrassing
Oh No!

Eegah
Starring: Carolyn Brandt , Bob Davis , Arch Hall Jr. , Richard Kiel , and Bill Lloyd
Manufacturer: Platinum Disc Corportation
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Release Date: 2001-10-10

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Embarrassing.......2006-03-19

I have to believe that Richard Kiel, who played "Jaws" in two James Bond movies, is embarrassed by his role in this movie that is about as cheesy as a movie in this genre, whatever genre that may be, can be. The plot has more holes than anything I can think of. The acting is awful. And those features are the best parts of this movie.

As the movie begins, we meet young and beautiful Roxy Miller (Marilyn Manning). Soon Roxy is driving to the beach and runs smack into a giant caveman. The caveman appears to be carrying a deer and a club. The caveman, who we later learn is called Eegah (Kiel), is immediately smitten by Roxy. Fortunately for Roxy, another car drives up. It turns out that Roxy's boyfriend Tom Nelson (Arch Hall, Jr.) is driving the car. Had Tom arrived any later, Roxy might have been making out with a caveman in the desert.

At some point Tom utters a classic line. "I swear on my Elvis Presley LP." Dialogue just hardly gets any better than this. I also enjoy it when Tom sings a song early in this movie about some babe named Vicky when Roxy is his girlfriend.

Tom and Robert Miller (Arch Hall, Sr.), Roxy's father, go with Roxy to the location where she saw the giant. Mr. Miller decides to go off into the desert of southern California to look for the giant after the trio finds a giant footprint. When the helicopter is unable to retrieve Mr. Miller, Tom hops into his dune buggy with Roxy to go find him. Tom is soon destroying desert habitat, including rare desert plants, just so he can prove to Roxy how macho he is. The next thing you know, Roxy and Tom are getting ready to spend the night in the desert, and Tom whips out his...guitar! The next thing you know, backing vocals kick in, whistling starts, electric guitars join in, and suddenly Tom sounds like he is in a studio somewhere. This time Tom sings about Valerie. Roxy kind of gets her revenge for Tom's singing about other women later.

Tom's singing is really nothing to write home about, but it turns out that, like the Pied Piper, his singing attracts creatures. In this case the creature is Eegah. Eegah is frightened away by Tom's transistor radio, but the next day Tom leaves Roxy at the dune buggy to search for her father and Eegah takes the opportunity to kidnap Roxy. Eegah soon sets up house (cave, actually) with Roxy, except Eegah decides he wants more than a shave and a meal. Tom shows up in the nick of time to save Roxy's honor, but Roxy looks wistful as she sees Eegah on the hilltop as they leave the desert. After all, if Tom can sing about other women, Roxy can dream about a caveman as a boyfriend.

Later, Eegah decides he is unable to live without Roxy, so he goes to great lengths to track her down. Unfortunately, few people are able to tolerate a caveman wandering about, so they have to take action. Poor defenseless Eegah just did not know what he was up against. I suspect that Roxy broke up with Tom soon after. After all, there was no way that Tom could compete with Eegah.

The transfer for this movie is reasonable. The picture was generally clear and the sound was okay. I do have to wonder why I am concerned about the quality of the DVD. This movie is awful. The plot is silly. How could a caveman exist in southern California with no one knowing? How was Eegah able to find Roxy? I know she had perfume, but Roxy rode in a vehicle for quite a distance, leaving no trail. I know the movie went to great lengths to explain that Eegah was friendly, but Eegah was a caveman, and a seven foot tall caveman should have been more forceful than he was. Regardless of what the opening credits show, Eegah does not kill anyone, other than the audience, who die from boredom.

Instead of watching this turkey, find the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version instead. Trust me; you will be glad you did.

Oh No!.......2006-01-20

The English language doesn't really have a word to describe how bad of a movie Eegah! truly is. It was made by someone named Arch Hall, Sr. as a vehicle for his completely talentless son Arch Hall, Jr. Junior isn't handsome to look at, can't act and can't sing as we find out when he sings not 1, but 2, horrid songs in the movie.

The story, if you care, is Arch's girlfriend meets a 7 foot prehistoric man in the desert, played with deep embarrassment and shame by Richard Kiel. Her father decides to hunt the caveman down so he can study him and write a book about him. It takes about 2 minutes for dad to get captured by Eegah. So the daughter takes Arch Jr. out to look for dad. The daughter also gets taken captive and of course Eegah is smitten with her. This all leads to a scene where she shaves Eegah with the encouragement of her own father. You will need to shower after watching this scene.

It's left to Junior to be the hero, and even though he's really not up to it, they all eventually escape Eegah. But you can't stop love, or caveman lust, so he comes to civilization looking for the girl.

One of the worst movies ever made. And even that sentence does not do justice to how awful this film is.

Sci-Fi Movie Marathon Volume 3: 8 Movie Pack

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Sci-Fi Movie Marathon Volume 3: 8 Movie Pack

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BONUS: Each movie comes with a portable-media friendly version that can be downloaded to your Apple iPod!
Eight feature films on four DVDs
Eegah,The Lost World,Metamorphosis,Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter,The Amazing Transparent Man,Santa Claus Conquers the Martians,First Spaceship on Venus,Night of the Blood Beast

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The legends of Science Fiction are gathered here for you in this definitive DVD collection of some of the greatest Sci-Fi classics to ever come out of Hollywood. This 8 DVD collection is sure to provide you with countless hours of entertainment. Volume 3 includes: Eegah directed by Arch Hall, Sr and starring Arch Hall, Jr; The Lost World directed by Harry Hoyt and starring Wallace Beery; Metamorphosis directed by George Eastman and starring Gene LeBrock; Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter directed by William Beaudine and starring John Lupton; The Amazing Transparent Man directed by Edgar Ulmer and starring Maguerite Chapman; Santa Claus Conquers the Martians directed by Nicholas Webster and starring Pia Zadora; First Spaceship on Venus directed by Kurt Maetzig and starring Yoko Tani; Night of the Blood Beast directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and starring John Baer

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