Anyone familiar with Roger Corman's output in the 1950s will appreciate how much artistry (or lack thereof) has gone into this cornball masterpiece.
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01/17/04
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2004)
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Reviews Counted:66
Fresh:35
Rotten:31
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Lost Skeleton is clever at spoofing B-movies, but the joke isn't sustainable for its running time.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: It's 1961 and Dr. Paul Armstrong (Larry Blamire) and his lovely wife Betty (Fay Masterson) head into the mountains in search of a recently fallen meteor containing the rare element atmosphereum.... [More]
Starring: Larry Blamire, Fay Masterson, Andrew Parks, Susan McConnell
Director: Larry Blamire
Reviews for The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Armed with enough cliches to make Ed Wood proud.
02/13/04
If you think the premise is silly, wait until you hear the dialog that goes along with it...hilariously campy.
03/12/04
Blamire has managed to make an inventive and entertaining movie out of stock heroes and villains, vacuous plotting and community-theater-quality special effects.
03/11/04
No, Cadavra isn’t for everyone, but what a great gift to fans of drive-in flicks the world over.
06/25/04
One of the more enjoyable times a film fan can have at the cinema.
02/18/04
The joke…is sustained fairly well…only flattening out in the middle of the film, but returning for a crazed finale. With enough room left for tapioca!
03/06/04
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra has to be one of the greatest parodies of old black and white sci-fi movies to date. It is just brilliant.
08/30/03
The score, costumes, sets and intentionally bad, exposition-heavy dialogue (delivered in either cool deadpan or borderline-hysterical readings) are a deft mix of campy spoof and finely shaded replication.
08/30/03
Stands out for its convincingly spellbound, Wood-like hermeticism: It feels like the very first '50s sci-fi parody ever made.
03/11/04
Largely a hoot.
02/24/04
You have to be good to be this bad, and judging from Cadavra, Blamire is very, very good.
02/06/04
A monster hoot, one so gut-busting that we can only hope that, as in the good ol' days, a nurse will be stationed in the lobby.
03/11/04
How can one begin to compete with the organic awfulness of Plan 9 From Outer Space, with its kitchen-cabinet spaceships and gratuitous Bela Lugosi cameos? The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra tries, and to a disconcerting extent, succeeds.
02/19/04
A parody of the kind of movies we were already giggling at, which leaves no actual room for parody ... works best when we just go along with [it].
02/05/04
The perilously low budget plays to Lost Skeleton’s advantage, and the scant 90-minute running time assures that it doesn’t wear out its welcome.
01/09/04
Destined to be a midnight movie favorite for years to come!
02/19/04
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is teeming with terrible dialogue, cardboard thespians, corny props snatched off eBay and mutilations, mutilations, MUTILATIONS!
02/16/04
May not be for everyone, but for those who appreciate spot-on spoofs of the cheesiest of '50s sci-fi monster movies may find it an inspired delight.
02/06/04
Top CriticVery clever and very daffy, and it will remind you how delicious trash cinema can be.
03/12/04
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