What can you say about this hopelessly dreadful movie? It's in color, that's a surprise. This movie blends rock 'n roll, hot rod dune buggies, desert landscapes and prehistoric men all into the same weird brew. What emerges is a painfully slow, but oddly mesmerizing morass of movie tropes and goofy one-liners.
The story briefly has a young woman named Roxie literally bump into Richard Kiel, a giant caveman on the highway. She faints but the the caveman is fascinated but runs away when her boyfriend, a gas attendant and rock 'n roll front man shows up. She tells her dad and boyfriend about the "giant" and they look for him. Eventually the dad flies out in a helicopter to the middle of the desert and gets nabbed by the caveman, the Roxie and her boyfriend named Tom go to find him and eventually she gets grabbed too. Then it really gets unusual as the caveman (who says "Eegah" a lot so they name him that) becomes more and more attracted to Roxie and invites her to drink his life-sustaining sulfur water and to meet his mummified family. Eventually he gets a bit grabby but Tom shows up and then helps both Roxie and her dad to escape eventually in the dune buggy. Eegah though is entranced now and follows them into town causing all sorts of mayhem until he busts up a pool party Roxie and Tom are at and gets himself shot.
There's not a lot of plot there to support this bloated ninety minute flick. If you cut out twenty minutes of this movie, it still wouldn't be good, but it would be more watchable. I give the director (the guy playing the dad) credit for getting this movie made for tiny money, but it shows all over the place.
When it comes to caveman movies alas, Eegah is no Trog.
Here's a link to a website dedicated to the movie:
EEGAH The MOVIE
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