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03/27/04
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
There are only so many jabs you can take at B-movie genre tropes before you run out of gags.
03/17/04
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
While the film gets by on its inoffensive glibness, it's weighed down by the very elements that make even the kitschiest B-movie classics seem draggy.
02/13/04
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02/14/04
Insanely entertaining, though it's difficult to discern exactly why.
08/30/03
Has been made by people who are trying to be bad, which by definition reveals that they are playing beneath their ability.
03/12/04
Top CriticThe makers of The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra can't quite live up to the 1950s-era B-movies that they parody.
03/11/04
Perilously close to the pop-culture trash it aims to mock.
02/19/04
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04/29/09
Blamire tires to re-create [Ed] Wood's stilted dialogue, but just because Wood was bad, it doesn't mean this is an easy job.
06/18/04
When such amazing artifacts of genuine 1950s ineptitude as 'Robot Monster' are available on DVD, it's hard to imagine why anyone would prefer this ersatz cult readymade...
03/30/04
It sounds like a marvelous idea... until you actually watch the movie.
06/30/04
Since there's no shortage of enjoyably bad movies out there, why settle for processed cheese when there's real cheddar to be devoured?
04/01/04
It's all great fun, and Blamire has at least as promising a future as all this dot.com nonsense.
04/09/04
It's not really cheese, it's Velveeta. As many who have tried have learned, midnight movies can not be manufactured, they must be discovered.
03/12/04
You don't have to be some obscure movie junkie to enjoy it, you just have to have a sense of humor.
03/11/04
This homage, affectionate though it is, lacks the additional wit needed to carry a feature-length parody.
02/06/04
No, Cadavra isn’t for everyone, but what a great gift to fans of drive-in flicks the world over.
06/25/04
In a way, this failure is a product of its success: so adept is Blamire's backhanded homage that it results in a film every bit as gruelling as its antecedents.
04/09/04
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