EDITOR’S NOTE: Teenage Caveman was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, December 26, 1964 at 1:00 a.m.

Robert Vaughn thought that this was the worst movie ever made. Roger Corman wanted it to be called Prehistoric World. In England, they called it Out of the Darkness. Yes, Teenage Caveman is something.

The early humans live amongst the rocks and suffer, despite there being a lush grassland on the other side of the river. There’s also a terrifying monster of a god over there, so they keep happy in the dirt.

It turns out that the god is an old white haired-man who was all burned up. One of the young cavemen (Vaughn) makes him a peace offering while another attacks the man, killing him. The tagline of this movie gives it away — “Nuclear holocaust has destroyed the world as we know it – and now the future of humanity is in the hands of TEENAGE CAVEMAN!” — because this movie does Planet of the Apes without the apes or the budget. Just the end of all things and cavemen coming back after nuclear destruction.

Robert Vaughn, despite playing a teenage caveman, was 26 when this was made.

Beach Dickerson tops that by dying three times — he’s the boy who drowns in quicksand (and the guy playing drums at his funeral) as well as a bear and the caveman who gets speared by the old man.

And that monster costume? It also shows up in Night of the Blood Beast.

When this title was used for a series of made for cable movies on Cinemax, Larry Clark directed it. Yes, the director of Kids.