History Film / Eegah

* ExcitedShowTitle: "Eegah!"

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* TotallyRadical: Subverted. Tom uses normal language, even for the 1960's, but Robert acts like he's talking like a hepcat.

** During the last act at the party, one of Tom's bandmates gets a friend to 'jump in' for him and play guitar with the band while he dances with Roxy (who frankly doesn't seem to even notice he's there!). This annoys Tom enough to get another friend to 'jump in' for ''him'' (why they have two substitute guitar players standing around is not explained) in order to cut in and dance with Roxy himself, much to displeasure of her original harasser. This takes up about two minutes screen time before Eegah crashes the party. (Almost everyone at the party looks slightly relieved)

After the financial success of his first venture into the drive-in/juvenile delinquency genre, The Choppers, Arch Hall Sr. was able to fund ''Eegah!'', a starring vehicle for his son, Arch Hall Jr., who had some success with songwriter Alan O'Day on the rock and roll/blues scene in Los Angeles. Seeing Arch Hall, Jr. as a potential Music/ElvisPresley superstar in the making, he made the movie a combination of schlock-horror and youth comedy, with a little bit of beach party film in the mix and plenty of songs for his prodigy to belt out.

* DawsonCasting: Roxy was played by Hall Sr.'s thirty-something secretary.

''Eegah!'' never made any real impact on cinema until it was included in the Michael Medved book ''The Fifty Worst Films of All Time'', written in 1978. This earned it a cult film status for its sheer awfulness, which continues to this day. A clip from the movie appears in the opening montage on Something Weird DVD releases, and it was mocked by Elvira in a 2010 episode of her ''Movie Macabre'' show. The film's greatest claim to "fame" was being the feature of an episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', ensuring that it would be remembered for generations to come for all the wrong reasons. A scene of Arch Hall Sr. uttering "Watch out for snakes!" from offscreen in what was obviously dubbed in after filming became a minor pop-culture meme. Not only did it become a RunningGag on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' in episodes after the film aired on that show, it was also referenced on ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'' and used as the closing line of ''The Rick Emerson Show''.

!!This film contains examples of:

* AsLongAsItSoundsForiegn: Hall Sr.'s dubbed in caveman speech includes a healthy chunk of Navajo words.

* BMovie: No one involved in the productions had any doubts to what they were making, and milked the camp for all its worth. They even attended the premiere in full costume, with Kiel hamming it up in his caveman outfit. Arch Hall, Sr. told Medved everyone involved had a fun time on set, despite the audio issue (during a good chunk of the desert film the AD pressed "play" instead of "record", requiring ADR, including the infamous "Watch out for snakes!")

* WordSaladLyrics: The songs, such as this winning line, "Vitamins are good I hear, and so's a calorie."[[note]]To rhyme with Valerie. Yikes.[[/note]]

''Eegah!'' never made any real impact on cinema until it was included in the Michael Medved book ''The Fifty Worst Films of All Time'', written in 1978. This earned it a cult film status for its sheer awfulness, which continues to this day. A clip from the movie appears in the opening montage on Something Weird DVD releases, and it was mocked by Elvira in a 2010 episode of her ''Movie Macabre'' show. The film's greatest claim to "fame" was being the feature of an episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', ensuring that it would be remembered for generations to come for all the wrong reasons. A scene of Arch Hall Sr. uttering "Watch out for snakes!" from offscreen in what was obviously dubbed in after filming became a minor pop-culture meme. Not only did it become a RunningGag on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' in episodes after the film aired on that show, it was also referenced on ''TheOffice'' and used as the closing line of ''The Rick Emerson Show''.

* BittersweetEnding: Eegah is killed by the police in the end, and Roxy cries. That's about it.

''Eegah!'' (also known as ''Eegah: The Name Written In Blood'') is a 1962 horror film starring Arch Hall Jr., Arch Hall Sr., Marilyn Manning and Richard Kiel in the titular role.

One night after shopping, Roxy Miller (Marilyn Manning) is driving home through the California desert when she nearly runs her car into Eegah (Richard Kiel), a giant caveman. She tells her boyfriend Tom Nelson (Arch Hall Jr.), and her father, Robert Miller (Arch Hall Sr.), about the giant. Her father, a writer of adventure books, decides to go into the desert to look for the creature and possibly take a photograph of it. When he fails to show up at his designated pickup time, Tom and Roxy go into the desert looking for him. Roxy is soon kidnapped by Eegah and taken back to his cave while Tom searches for her. In Eegah's cave, Roxy is reunited with her injured father, who tells her that he has begun to communicate with the caveman and has even developed a theory as to the creature's astounding longevity. When a frisky Eegah expresses what seems to be romantic interest in Roxy, her father, fearful that the creature may kill them both if he is rebuffed, suggests she put up with as much of it as she can bear. Eegah never tries anything too explicit, though, and Roxy even ends up giving him a shave before the pair is able to escape thanks to Tom subduing Eegah. Crushed, Eegah follows them back to civilization, and a final confrontation ensues during a pool party where Eegah is gunned down by the police.

After the financial success of his first venture into the drive-in/juvenile delinquency genre, The Choppers, Arch Hall Sr. was able to fund ''Eegah!'', a starring vehicle for his son, Arch Hall Jr., who had some success with songwriter Alan O'Day on the rock and roll/blues scene in Los Angeles. Seeing Arch Hall, Jr. as a potential ElvisPresley superstar in the making, he made the movie a combination of schlock-horror and youth comedy, with a little bit of beach party film in the mix and plenty of songs for his prodigy to belt out.

* LoopingLines:
** The infamously poorly dubbed line "Watch out for snakes."
** Arch Hall, Sr. did all of Eegah's lines, including the grunting.

''Eegah!'' never made any real impact on cinema until it was included in the Michael Medved book ''The Fifty Worst Films of All Time'', written in 1978. This earned it a cult film status for its sheer awfulness, which continues to this day. A clip from the movie appears in the opening montage on Something Weird DVD releases, and it was mocked by Elvira in a 2010 episode of her ''Movie Macabre'' show. The film's greatest claim to "fame" was being the feature of an episode of ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', ensuring that it would be remembered for generations to come for all the wrong reasons. A scene of Arch Hall Sr. uttering "Watch out for snakes!" from offscreen in what was obviously dubbed in after filming became a minor pop-culture meme. Not only did it become a RunningGag on ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' in episodes after the film aired on that show, it was also referenced on ''TheOffice'' and used as the closing line of ''The Rick Emerson Show''.

For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E06Eegah episode recap page]].