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.
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06/18/04
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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.
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.... [More]
Starring: Larry Blamire, Fay Masterson, Andrew Parks, Susan McConnell
Director: Larry Blamire
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Reviews for The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Blamire walks the thin line between tribute and parody without winking at his audience or trumpeting his own cleverness.
02/20/04
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
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
It's all great fun, and Blamire has at least as promising a future as all this dot.com nonsense.
04/09/04
Top CriticVery clever and very daffy, and it will remind you how delicious trash cinema can be.
03/12/04
It sounds like a marvelous idea... until you actually watch the movie.
06/30/04
Remarkably, it manages to spoof bad movies without actually being a bad movie.
02/06/04
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
could develop cult status with the MST3K crowd
02/07/04
Insanely entertaining, though it's difficult to discern exactly why.
08/30/03
No, Cadavra isn’t for everyone, but what a great gift to fans of drive-in flicks the world over.
06/25/04
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
Top CriticIf you think the premise is silly, wait until you hear the dialog that goes along with it...hilariously campy.
03/12/04
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
Top CriticHas 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
Top CriticThe best thing about this knowing send-up of B horror movies is the vintage 1937 Disney animated short that precedes it in theaters.
02/13/04
Anyone familiar with Roger Corman's output in the 1950s will appreciate how much artistry (or lack thereof) has gone into this cornball masterpiece.
01/17/04
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
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