Homo Erectus Movie 2007 May 2026

If you’re a completist of Ali Larter’s filmography, a scholar of Adam Rifkin’s weird career, or someone who genuinely enjoys watching Gary Busey smear berry paste on his face while chanting, Homo Erectus is your holy grail.

1 out of 5 fossilized footprints. Watch only with friends and alcohol. Homo Erectus Movie 2007

If you stumbled upon a dusty DVD or a late-night cable listing for Homo Erectus (2007), you might have expected a National Geographic-style docudrama. Instead, you found National Lampoon’s Homo Erectus —a film so obscure that even Wikipedia seems unsure whether to classify it as a comedy, a tragedy, or a tax write-off. The film stars Adam Rifkin (who also wrote and directed) as Ishbo , a prehistoric everyman living in the uncivilized world of 2 million BC. Unlike his brutish, grunting peers who are content with clubbing seals and dragging women by the hair, Ishbo is a sensitive, intellectual proto-hippie. He dreams of art, poetry, and—much to the tribe’s confusion—monogamy. If you’re a completist of Ali Larter’s filmography,

The film is available on obscure streaming services and YouTube in potato quality. A small community of fans (perhaps 47 people worldwide) celebrate its unapologetic stupidity. They quote lines like “Ishbo no make fire. Ishbo make love ” and debate whether the chimpanzee’s philosophical monologues were actually written by a postgraduate student on LSD. If you stumbled upon a dusty DVD or