The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2004)
53 %
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
Theatrical Release: Feb 6, 2004 Limited
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. Paul needs it to help him with his science work, but Betty'd just as soon have a vacation. Also in... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Larry Blamire, Fay Masterson, Andrew Parks, Susan McConnell, Brian Howe
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11/19/04
Watching campy movies can be almost as funny as as watching a well-written comedy. However, watching a movie that intentionally mimics bad filmmaking is excruciating.
07/16/04
It sounds like a marvelous idea... until you actually watch the movie.
06/30/04
No, Cadavra isn’t for everyone, but what a great gift to fans of drive-in flicks the world over.
06/25/04
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
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
An affectionate, amusing tribute to the Ed Wood-style, no-budget science fiction films of the 1950s.
04/09/04
It's all great fun, and Blamire has at least as promising a future as all this dot.com nonsense.
04/09/04
Top Critic
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
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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
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03/27/04
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[The] slavish devotion to the shlock of the '50s that prevents the movie from ever becoming anything more than a bizarre curiosity.
03/17/04
There are only so many jabs you can take at B-movie genre tropes before you run out of gags.
03/17/04
Some judicious editing would make a huge improvement, however, because even at 90 minutes, it feels like Blamire's stretching the joke a bit thin.
03/13/04
Very clever and very daffy, and it will remind you how delicious trash cinema can be.
03/12/04
A little too true to it sources and ends up reminding you just how boring inept acting, editing and story-telling can be.
03/12/04
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THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA has been revived w/ 'atmospherium'/Ed Wood would b proud
by: REEL_REVIEWER 7/14/04
by: REEL_REVIEWER 7/14/04
THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA has been revived w/ 'atmospherium'/Ed Wood would b proud
by: REEL_REVIEWER 7/14/04
by: REEL_REVIEWER 7/14/04
THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA has been revived w/ 'atmospherium'/Ed Wood would b proud
by: REEL_REVIEWER 7/14/04
by: REEL_REVIEWER 7/14/04
THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA has been revived w/ 'atmospherium'/Ed Wood would b proud
by: REEL_REVIEWER 7/14/04
by: REEL_REVIEWER 7/14/04
This is some mighty tasty cheese!
by: Helen Wheels 2/22/04
by: Helen Wheels 2/22/04
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