Wow! Such a good movie.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Eegah was one of those science fiction B movies, for me, that you could sit through and get a good laugh out of it, but not necessarily love it. I mean, the concept is pretty cool, a caveman is living on his own in the wilderness somehow unaware of the modern world around him. This could loosely be based on the story of Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe whom was discovered in California as recently as the 1900s. So yea, the concept is good, but the acting is shoddy and the storyline tends to jump around a lot. Overall, it's a decent film, but not a great one.

I never thought I'd say it, but "Encino Man" did it better. A group of teenagers come across a caveman and drama ensues. Richard Kiel, best known as the James Bond villain Jaws, plays the titular 7'2" caveman, Eegah. Kiel goes on a rampage smashing cars and chasing teenagers. As you might expect from a film titled "Eegah," it's not a very good movie. Filmed in Bronson Canyon, where other notable turkey "Robot Monster" was filmed, "Eegah" is an indefensibly bad film, but I will say I was quite entertained on a so-bad-it's-good level of entertainment, particularly anytime Kiel got to rampage or was distracted by shiny object from his female captives. It also didn't help the quality of the film when nearly all of the dialogue had to be dubbed because sound engineer on the film failed to record most of the original dialogue. Overall, only watch this turkey if you're in the mood for some Ed Wood levels of bad cinema entertainment.

A giant caveman inexplicably appears out of the desert and encounters a teenage girl named Roxy in whom he is immediately curious. Roxy's devoted Rock-n-Roll boyfriend Tom stumbles along and unwittingly scares away the giant. Later, after her escape, her father Mr. Miller is skeptical of her story but appeases her by going out the next day, along with Tom, to search for the enormous man. Much to their surprise, the two men discover the giant's footprints, which they believe are headed toward Shadow Mountain. Roxy's father heads out with camera in hand to try to photograph the giant and is dropped off near Shadow Mountain via helicopter. Unbeknownst to Roxy and Tom, Roxy's dad has been locked away behind a large stone in the giant's cave dwelling. Having failed to return from the desert, Roxy and Tom search for Mr. Miller while enjoying an oddly cheerful, Rock-n-Roll spin through the desert. After a close midnight encounter with the giant, Roxy is ultimately taken captive and reunited with her father in the giant's primitive cave. Roxy soon discovers much about the giant, who has more charisma and humanity than expected. While Mr. Miller and Roxy are sympathetic to the giant—Eegah they now call him—they begin an awkward cat and mouse game with Eegah to distract him as he takes an obvious interest in Roxy's perfume and womanly charms. As Eegah's advances become more aggressive, Roxy finally convinces Eegah to go out with her. But as Eegah starts to molest Roxy and attacks her father for trying to escape, Tom conveniently appears with his rifle and wounds Eegah. While Eegah is a menace without malice, Tom also feels sympathy for Eegah and can't kill him. As the three make a clumsy escape, Roxy looks back at Eegah in sadness, bewilderment and concern. Back at the cave, Eegah decides he can't live without Roxy and tracks her back to town. As Eegah makes his way to the loud Rock-n-Roll party where Roxy and the teens in town have gathered, calamity ensues and the police are called to investigate. Back at the party a sullen Roxy confesses to her father that she has a funny feeling that something has happened to him, to Eegah. Her father empathizes and tries to console her. And Tom tries to lift Roxy's spirits by dancing with her. But an upstart rival boy tries to cut in. As a fight breaks out between the boys, Eegah appears over the fence and the fight turns on Eegah, adding to Roxy's dismay, fear and concern for Eegah. Eegah grabs Roxy and attempts to flee with her in classic Hollywood style, but the police appear, draw their guns, Eegah tries to beat back the police but Eegah is shot repeatedly and falls dead into the pool. As the teenagers ask if he was real, Mr. Miller gives Eegah his rite of passage, "It says so in the book of Genesis, 'There were giants in the earth in those days.'"

Unlike other movies that have been on Mystery Science Theater 3000 I did not watch this movie through that, I instead watched this through the modern day Elvira show (I'll review that after this) so the movie centers around a caveman who is 7 foot tall and scares the crap out of Roxy, a supposed teen and has a boyfriend who likes performing music as a non-sequitur and considering this person is played by the director's son I would not be surprised if he had his own wannabe pop band that he wanted hits inserted into the movie so he could be what The Beatles were... it's all speculation but considering how not-relevant to the plot it is right down to Roxy having no problem with him singing songs about other girls it's pretty sound. So anyway they look for the caveman and find it and he has evidently survived all this time, untouched by civilization because "shut up it does" and takes a liking to Roxy. So they try and get away from it and the caveman tries getting to her apparently not taking "no" for an answer and gets killed once it goes back to civilization as we're supposed to feel sorry for it. This movie is not interesting - the plot is ridiculous, the acting is annoying and it could not be more evident of it's low budget and it gets per-occupied with shooting crap Arch Hall Jr music videos.