Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 68
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 32
Lost Skeleton is clever at spoofing B-movies, but the joke isn't sustainable for its running time.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 8
Lost Skeleton is clever at spoofing B-movies, but the joke isn't sustainable for its running time.
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Mad scientists, bug-eyed monsters, alien invaders, and black-clad women who perform interpretive dances battle for center stage in this parody of '50s sci-fi flicks. Dr. Paul Armstrong (Larry Blamire) is a scientist studying alien rock formations that have crashed to Earth. When Armstrong and his wife Betty (Fay Masterson) learn that a cache of Atmospherium, a radioactive mineral found in meteorites, has been found in the desert, he sets out to find it, but he has competition -- Dr. Fleming
Feb 6, 2004 Wide
Jun 22, 2004
Fragmighty
All Critics (73) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (39) | Rotten (33) | DVD (18)
It's all great fun, and Blamire has at least as promising a future as all this dot.com nonsense.
Since there's no shortage of enjoyably bad movies out there, why settle for processed cheese when there's real cheddar to be devoured?
A little too true to it sources and ends up reminding you just how boring inept acting, editing and story-telling can be.
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.
Has been made by people who are trying to be bad, which by definition reveals that they are playing beneath their ability.
Stands out for its convincingly spellbound, Wood-like hermeticism: It feels like the very first '50s sci-fi parody ever made.
Obey the skeleton. Forget all about Mesa of Lost Women. This is the one you've been looking for.
A bland inside joke for genre aficionados.
The film is legitimately funny, with deliberately arch performances, purposefully bad dialog, consciously skewed continuity and intentionally inept special effects.
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.
When I saw it on the big screen, it was almost painful to sit through. I must admit, it's much more tolerable on DVD.
It sounds like a marvelous idea... until you actually watch the movie.
No, Cadavra isn't for everyone, but what a great gift to fans of drive-in flicks the world over.
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.
Beware! Cheekiness Overload!
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.
An affectionate, amusing tribute to the Ed Wood-style, no-budget science fiction films of the 1950s.
It's campy, bad, and fun. Unfortunately, "bad" isn't always good.
Mostly funny sendup of 50's Sci-Fi films is not as quirky or as witty as the similarly influenced 'Invasion!' but it still makes for a nice companion piece.
September 1, 2008
Super Reviewer
A well-engineered B-Movie. It's quite funny in parts. Intentionally cheap and cheesy. The actors did well to ham up their roles. I got a bit bored with how over-the-top things kept being.
August 3, 2007Super Reviewer
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