The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)

I love this movie so much

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

An affectionate pastiche of low budget 50's sci-fi movies filmed in ten days which marks the return to the big screen of Bronson Canyon in Los Angeles: strong, silent star of many of that era's cheesiest productions.Director Larry Blamire and Fay Masterson make an attractive couple as scientist Dr. Paul Armstrong and his wife Betty. As the exotic hybrid creature, Animala, Blamire's wife Jennifer Blaire looks electrifying in her boyish beatnik haircut and black catsuit (probably borrowed from one of the Cat-Women of the Moon); she looks even more electrifying in colour in the blooper reel.Blamire's amusing script is unfortunately let down by his sluggish pacing, and by the drabness of the black & white transfer from film to video (although - possibly by accident - in the exterior scenes Animala's outfit vividly stands out against the washed-out greyness that otherwise serves as her backdrop).

This movie was great. Made me laugh and was the definition of bad movie. It was way better than "A Million Ways to Die in the West"I loved the aliens in this film that bend in half. We actually reference this scene at work regularly. There are genuinely funny parts of the film. The alien that's made from a mattress pad is great, and the woman that is a cat keeps you on your seat the whole time. She really doesn't make any sense, but adds an unnecessary line to the movie that is entertaining.The story line is entertaining and I liked it. I recommend watching this if you are into B movies and find entertainment in low budget quirky films.

I am a big fan of the B movies, the ones that get shown on independent television stations late at night and were ripped on gloriously by shows such as Mystery Science Theater 3000. So when I saw that this was on Netflix, knowing that it is in fact an homage to those movies, I had to check it out.What I really liked was how this movie combined various elements from many divergent B movies into a plot that was relatively straight forward. I could almost pick out the specific movies they were recreating. Plus the location was a well known location where many of those films were shot. It is difficult to get more authentic.The acting is, of course, cheesy, but not in an overdone way. Rather it seemed as though it was respectful in trying to recreate the feel of the classic B movie. That's what an homage to those films needs to be.What keeps this from getting a perfect score though, in my opinion, is the look may have been better achieved had it not been shot on a digital hand-held camera and rather put on film. I know there are ways to get that grainy and out of focus type look in post production, and even the black and white was done in post, but still to make it feel more authentic I would have opted for a film camera instead. Really though that is the only complaint I have. The characters were good, followed the stereotype well, and this movie to me was thoroughly enjoyable.

Can't believe the number of good comments for this dull,unfunny alleged "send-up" of all those '50's flicks I used to love that were REAL entertainment.Someone on here(probably a shill for the company that released this junk)states that the IFC lists it as one of the BEST FILMS OF 2004.So....I guess that shows what crap the IFC is.I've always heard that only people with real singing talent can fake bad singing.Well,the folks in this thing must be pretty bad because they can't fake bad acting worth CRAP.I'll also repeat that this wouldn't have made a good 10-minute skit on SNL as someone else said(and as lousy as SNL is nowadays,that's saying something).This "film" committed the sin that even "Robot Monster" or "The Giant Claw" NEVER did....BORE ME TO TEARS!!Glad I got this on a free rental at Blockbuster,or I would have been really disappointed.I also find it hard to believe that any of the people who gave this raves have ever seen any of the 50's movies they mention.There...now all you critics can go back to saying "cheesy" again.