Eegah starts late one night with the young & attractive Roxy Miller (Marilyn Manning) driving along a Californian desert highway in Palm Springs when suddenly she spots a 'giant' (Richard Kiel) in the middle of the road, luckily for Roxy her boyfriend Tommy Nelson (Arch Hall Jr.) turns up & scares him off. Roxy tells Tommy & her Father Robert (Arch Hall Sr. who also acted as director, producer, writer & musician) who don't believe her tales of 'giants', they don't believe her that is until they decide to check the area out the next morning & discover huge footprints that could only have been made by, yes you've guessed it, a giant. The entrepreneur that he is Robert thinks that there might be some money in their discovery so sets about hiring a helicopter to drop him off in the desert to take a look around, not that there is much to see in a desert obviously, just mainly sand really. Unfortunately for Robert it's not long before Eegah finds him... Roxy gets a phone-call from the helicopter pilot who says his chopper has broken down & can she pick her Father up to which she agrees & both her & Tommy set off. Eegah has a bit of a crush on Roxy & decides he wants her to himself & no one is going to get in his way...
As star, writer, producer & director Arch Hall Sr. must be the number one suspect on the list of people to blame for making such an inept & awful film, everything about Eegah is terrible. The script by Bob Wehling is painfully slow & dull with some of the most absurd narrative ever, so you get a broken collar bone from falling over in sand? Eegah has been living in the Californian desert for literally 1000's of year & yet no one has ever seen him before Roxy? Why does Tommy have to periodically break into an awful love song? Why would someone go & look for something in desert that is probably 1000's of square miles large all by himself? What's with the beard & hair? Surely it would have been longer than that by now? Why is Eegah so clean with a set of nice white teeth too, I mean this guy has supposedly been living in the desert by himself for years & just so we, the viewer that is, knows that he is a prehistoric caveman Eegah even gets a large wooden club made from a branch. Nothing in Eegah makes a blind bit of sense & the script doesn't even try to explain anything, we just have to accept it I'm afraid. Forget about the 'so bad it's good' thing as Eegah is truly difficult to sit through. This film has zero entertainment value whatsoever while the character's & dialogue are as dumb as any your likely to witness, Eegah really has to be seen & heard to be believed although please don't take that as a recommendation whatever you do.
Director Hall Sr. shows his incompetence both in front & behind the camera as Eegah is an extremely lifeless, dull, flat & unexciting film. For instance just take the climactic showdown when Eegah 'rampages' through the town, the best he can do is walk around a bit & throw a couple of people in a swimming pool. Please stop, I can't bear the excitement anymore. However there is a hilarious scene when Eegah walks along with a bunch of yellow flowers that he has just picked for Roxy! Isn't this guy meant to be well hard? Hall Sr. also films whole scenes in the irritating day-for-night process which hardly helps the mood of the film. A special mention goes to the opening credit sequence which is one of the most bizarre & yet at the same time annoying I've ever seen, it's certainly unique to say the least & those rotten corpses look terrible. Forget about any sort of violence as there isn't any.
Apparently Eegah had a budget of about $15,000 which still doesn't excuse it from being crap. Everything is substandard, the cinematography is terrible, the guitar twanging main theme seriously got on my nerves & as a whole Eegah is a very poorly staged & executed film & what on Earth is that so-called dune buggy all about? It looks like some 5 year old glued a load of old car parts together! The acting is awful by everyone involved, Manning was apparently Hall Sr.'s secretary & all I can say is don't give your day job while Hall Jr. lets his hair style do the talking. Eegah himself the 7'2" Kiel would go onto better things as Jaws in the two James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) & Moonraker (1979).
Eegah is an awful film plain & simple, it's beyond stupid & will bore most people to death. Do yourself a favour & give this one a miss, Eegah isn't even good for laughs as there just ain't enough of them. Definitely one to avoid.
As star, writer, producer & director Arch Hall Sr. must be the number one suspect on the list of people to blame for making such an inept & awful film, everything about Eegah is terrible. The script by Bob Wehling is painfully slow & dull with some of the most absurd narrative ever, so you get a broken collar bone from falling over in sand? Eegah has been living in the Californian desert for literally 1000's of year & yet no one has ever seen him before Roxy? Why does Tommy have to periodically break into an awful love song? Why would someone go & look for something in desert that is probably 1000's of square miles large all by himself? What's with the beard & hair? Surely it would have been longer than that by now? Why is Eegah so clean with a set of nice white teeth too, I mean this guy has supposedly been living in the desert by himself for years & just so we, the viewer that is, knows that he is a prehistoric caveman Eegah even gets a large wooden club made from a branch. Nothing in Eegah makes a blind bit of sense & the script doesn't even try to explain anything, we just have to accept it I'm afraid. Forget about the 'so bad it's good' thing as Eegah is truly difficult to sit through. This film has zero entertainment value whatsoever while the character's & dialogue are as dumb as any your likely to witness, Eegah really has to be seen & heard to be believed although please don't take that as a recommendation whatever you do.
Director Hall Sr. shows his incompetence both in front & behind the camera as Eegah is an extremely lifeless, dull, flat & unexciting film. For instance just take the climactic showdown when Eegah 'rampages' through the town, the best he can do is walk around a bit & throw a couple of people in a swimming pool. Please stop, I can't bear the excitement anymore. However there is a hilarious scene when Eegah walks along with a bunch of yellow flowers that he has just picked for Roxy! Isn't this guy meant to be well hard? Hall Sr. also films whole scenes in the irritating day-for-night process which hardly helps the mood of the film. A special mention goes to the opening credit sequence which is one of the most bizarre & yet at the same time annoying I've ever seen, it's certainly unique to say the least & those rotten corpses look terrible. Forget about any sort of violence as there isn't any.
Apparently Eegah had a budget of about $15,000 which still doesn't excuse it from being crap. Everything is substandard, the cinematography is terrible, the guitar twanging main theme seriously got on my nerves & as a whole Eegah is a very poorly staged & executed film & what on Earth is that so-called dune buggy all about? It looks like some 5 year old glued a load of old car parts together! The acting is awful by everyone involved, Manning was apparently Hall Sr.'s secretary & all I can say is don't give your day job while Hall Jr. lets his hair style do the talking. Eegah himself the 7'2" Kiel would go onto better things as Jaws in the two James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) & Moonraker (1979).
Eegah is an awful film plain & simple, it's beyond stupid & will bore most people to death. Do yourself a favour & give this one a miss, Eegah isn't even good for laughs as there just ain't enough of them. Definitely one to avoid.