Mystery Science Theater 3000 experiment #506: Eegah.
Originally aired August 28, 1993.
Available at Amazon.
"Watch out for snakes!"
Arch Hall Sr. wrote, directed, and co-starred in a strange hybrid of shlock horror, youth comedy, and beach party of a film starring Richard Kiel as the title character, a caveman who has somehow survived over millions of years, and is living just outside of suburban Los Angeles, which means had he lived longer than 1962, he probably would've been displaced by a subdivision or a strip mall at some point. Eegah terrorizes Roxy Miller (Marilyn Manning) one night, and she tells her boyfriend Tom Nelson (Arch Hall Jr.) and her father Robert Miller (Hall Sr., as "William Watters") about him, which leads to a wacky quest where the caveman kidnaps both Roxy and her dad (whose relationship seems waaaaay too creepy for a father-daughter one), and it's up to gas station attendant slash budding rock guitarist Tom to save them. Oh, and there's the mandatory sequence where Eegah invades modern society looking for Roxy.
Arch Hall Jr. was being promoted at the time as a teen idol in the vein of Elvis Presley by his dad, with limited success. He did have one good role in him, namely the main character in the horror movie The Sadist.
As for the host segments, two questionable experiments take place as Tom Servo freezes Crow to absolute zero, and Dr. Forrester replaces TV's Frank's blood with antifreeze. The bots also try to use a device to change Joel's face into one resembling Arch Hall Jr., with horrifying results. Later, weirded out by the relationship between Roxy and Dr. Miller, they discuss television families from the Sixties headed by widowers, and conclude the only normal TV family from that era was the Munsters.
Highly recommended episode!
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