| "One
of the funniest and most accurate spoofs ever... deliriously
silly moments... a gem!"
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"...posed, with
incredible authenticity, as a lost Z-grade horror picture from the 1950s.
Prediction:
by 2010, this will be remembered as one of the biggest cult movies of
the decade."
-- Matt Singer, IFC (Independent
Film Channel)
IFC Picks the TOP
5 INDIE FILMS OF THE YEAR
"A hoot.... Cadavra
reaches comic heights that approach the 'Your
stupid minds! Stupid, stupid, stupid!'
speech from Plan 9."
-- Glenn Kenny, PREMIERE MAGAZINE
"Parodic
bull’s-eye scored!...
A deft parody of ‘50s Z-grade sci-fi and horror pics, The Lost Skeleton
of Cadavra will delight...!"
-- Dennis Harvey,VARIETY
"Tinfoil spacesuits,
rubber-ribbed aliens, and ray guns.... Writer-director-star Larry Blamire
re-creates B-movie scenes with precision.... Cadavra's low-rent
indie roots... make it that much more amusing.
-- Jon M. Gibson, WIRED MAGAZINE

"A
cheerfully trashy, dead-on spoof of the B-movie
genre."
-- Megan Lehmann, NEW YORK POST
"From
its sweeping black-and-white, often-in-focus cinematography to its bargain
basement reject special effects, 'The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra' is awfully
good. ... You don't have to be some obscure movie junkie to enjoy
it, you just have to have a sense of humor."
-- Tom Long, DETROIT NEWS
"it
takes tremendous skill to emulate amateurism so effectively - Unless alien
ray guns reactivate our innocence-to-cynicism cycle, 'The Lost Skeleton
of Cadavra' will remain the definitive sci-fi parody
because it's so obviously fake.... The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra"
is aimed squarely at ironists, who will know they are in good hands from
the first black-and-white images of a vintage convertible tooling through
the ominous countryside."
-- Joe Williams, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
"Inspired,
inventive and funnier than it has a right to be, Larry Blamire's
loopy spoof of 1950s bargain-basement sci-fi and horror knock-offs gets
it right where so many well-meaning efforts go wrong. Blamire walks the
thin line between tribute and parody without winking at his audience or
trumpeting his own cleverness."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"A
single, giggle-inducing mutation... A '50s
sci-fi spoof that's a silly hit to the funny bone."
-- Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"See,
find, get this film .... A spoof you can watch over and over again
and laugh harder and harder every time ... Multiple
viewings are mandatory!"
-- Emily Blunt, BLUNT REVIEW.com

"the
innuendo does exactly what it's supposed to--reduce
you to adolescent giggle fits. When Dr. Paul Armstrong (Blamire)
gets randy with his wife, Betty (Fay Masterson), he earnestly says, "Why
shake [hands], when we can touch other things--like lips!" And we
haven't even delved into the sexual pathos of Animala, played by frequent
scene-stealer Jennifer Blaire.
-- LAS VEGAS MERCURY
"you'll
laugh yourself silly and hate yourself in the morning.... How can
one begin to compete with the organic awfulness of Plan 9 From Outer Space,
with its kitchen-cabinet spaceships and gratuitous Bela Lugosi cameos?
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra tries, and to a disconcerting extent, succeeds....
Ironically enough, the college crowds that may turn it into a cult
favorite would be too young to tell Ed Wood from Natalie Wood."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
A
complete delight… pitch-perfect spoofing… marvelously insipid…
hard-pressed to complain.
--Robert Horton, AMAZON.COM
GF (Great Filmmaking)
- "one
of the most inspired displays of absurdity....
Larry Blamire does an excellent job of intentionally striking out in every
department and manages to create one of the best parodies I’ve ever
seen....While Mel Brooks has made some fairly amusing parodies of specific
films... Blamire manages to lampoon an entire sub genre and brilliantly
at that."
-- Matt Forsman, THE CINEMATIC VERSES
“A heap of fun…
gets funnier the dumber it gets... aided
immeasurably by his funny cast.”
-- Cinescape
“I haven’t
laughed so hard and so often at a comedy
in quite a while.”
-- The Masked Movie Snob
FOUR
STARS - "Right
through to its fade-out, the seedy-looking, black-and-white Lost Skeleton
of Cadavra, with its two-bit props and special effects, provokes laughter,
and everyone involved in all aspects of its making gets into the zany
high spirits of the occasion."
-- Kevin Thomas (redeux), AZ REPUBLIC
"If
you think the premise is silly, wait until you hear the dialog that goes
along with it...hilariously campy."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"One
of the more enjoyable times a film fan can have at the cinema."
-- Edward Havens, FILMJERK.COM
"Lost
Skeleton is a nostalgia coup and... a real hoot. The perilously
low budget plays to Lost Skeleton’s advantage, and the scant 90-minute
running time assures that it doesn’t wear out its welcome."
-- Jeremiah Kipp, SLANT MAGAZINE
"A
monster hoot, one so gut-busting that we
can only hope that, as in the good ol' days, a nurse
will be stationed in the lobby."
-- Jackie Loohauis, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"A
really, really hokey movie that is indeed so
bad it's good. With its deliciously trite dialog and its anything-but-special
effects, it's a hoot."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"A
parody of the kind of movies we were already giggling at."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
"Giving
the nod to everything from 1953's Robot Monster through 1964's Creeping
Terror, writer-director-star Larry Blamire parodies the worst of atomic
age sci-fi drive-in horror with deadpan aplomb."
-- Dennis Harvey, SF BAY GUARDIAN
"You
will enjoy The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra....the funniest low-budget-'60s-sci-fi-spoof-with-a-talking-skeleton
of the year. This is the one you've been looking
for. Obey the skeleton."
-- Kelly Vance, EAST BAY EXPRESS
"Insanely
entertaining"
-- Tim Cogshell, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"Destined
to be a midnight movie favorite for years
to come!"
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"But
the real eye-popping performance is that
of Jennifer Blaire as Animala. Bringing a
new level of sensuality to both the genre and this film, she is the reason
men will run to see "Skeleton." (And to think she never auditioned
for "Catwoman" is beyond me.)... an absolute
must see.... An independent production written, produced, directed
and starring Larry Blamire, thanks to some extraordinary behind the scenes
marketing and screening efforts, 'Lost Skeleton of Cadvara' was picked
up.... Now THIS is a movie."
-- Debbie Lynn Elias, MOVIE SHARK DEBLORE, THE OBSERVER, INC.
"...it’s
harder to create honest amusement than to get it by failing with serious
intent... it’s much easier to admire and appreciate what Blamire
has achieved than what Ed Wood or Phil Tucker wrought."
-- Michael Gingold, FANGORIA
"It's
been a long time since I laughed, really laughed, in a movie.
That's why 'The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra' is such a refreshing indie discovery."
-- Mike Szymanski, ZAP2IT.com

and finally... AIN'T
IT COOL NEWS says:
"Not
so much a parody as a recreation... many who watch SKELETON will find
it akin to coming upon a grisly train wreck
they can't turn away from. Blamire's... observations of visual grammar
are so astute, that for those in the know, SKELETON may even take on the
patina of - do I dare say it? Low artistry. SKELETON is pure
nostalgic novelty. Lightening captured in a bottle."
- Nikko of Oz, AINTITCOOL.com
"As
much fun as any self-respecting geek can have in a
theater!"
--Moriarity at the SATURN AWARDS
"Leave it to Robogeek,
that great big bundle of research. For an AI like him, surfing the net
isn't just a hobby... it's like breathing. It's simply one of his essential
functions. In one of his many dips into the ocean of data out there, he
came up with a groovy website....
I've heard rumors of
this picture for years, much like DESTINATION MARS or the long-fabled
New Zealand production of SALOME. Now, at last, there appears to be hope
that we may see THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA. And it's even being presented
in SKELETOSCOPE!!
Come on! It's got ATMOSPHERIUM!
A Radioactive meteor! Skeletons! Beatniks! Aliens! The TRANSMUTATRON!
And a cave, damn it!!
Larry Blamire... you
are not forgotten..."
-- Robogeek & Moriarty, AIN’T IT COOL NEWS

|
2005
Saturn Award Nominee,
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
-- SciFi Academy
"You have to be
good
to be this bad, and judging from Cadavra,
Blamire
is very, very good."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Stands out for
its convincingly spellbound, Wood-like hermeticism: It
feels like the very first '50s sci-fi parody ever made."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"Both
affectionate and knowing."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Blamire nails
Ed Wood's trademark syntactical acrobatics, and a sublimely awkward set
piece featuring masquerading aliens recalls the dinner scene in Eraserhead
drained of queasy dread. May be 100
percent cult-in-a-can...."
-- Mark Holcomb, VILLAGE VOICE
"A parody of
B-movies stupid enough -- and yet with just enough brains -- to appeal
to the most discriminating fans of the genre.... 'Lost Skeleton' might
just come close to comedy perfection. "
-- Michael O'Sullivan, WASHINGTON POST
"Armed
with enough cliches to make Ed Wood proud."
-- Carla Meyer, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"'Lost
Skeleton of Cadavra' is crypt-kicking fun... I stand
humbled and amazed after viewing 'The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.'
Blamire has managed to make an inventive and entertaining movie out of
stock heroes and villains, vacuous plotting and community-theater-quality
special effects."
-- Colin Covert, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
"The dialogue
is particularly fine, with every single line a fine example of the tin-eared
writing that made films of Ed Wood caliber such a perverse
hoot..."
-- Scifi.com
"Writer-director
Larry Blamire expertly nails the genre... the actors are clearly having
a good time... "
-- LA Weekly (two times "Film Pick
of the Week")
"Saucier than
a killer tomato ... The Lost Skeleton is the gem
of the Festival!"
-- Senior Programmer, Mill Valley Film Festival
I
have young friends who have already watched the film a dozen times and
neighbors who are quoting dialog to me. The reason it
succeeds is that it also manages to sustain a delightfully silly
narrative, so that you are compelled to continue
watching as its humor is unleashed.
-- Douglas Pratt,
MOVIE CITY NEWS
"A hilarious
and skillful spoof of our culture, language and the ‘B’
movie genre..."
-- American Cinematheque
"Very clever and
very daffy, and it will remind you how delicious
trash cinema can be."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"Remarkably,
it manages to spoof bad movies without actually
being a bad movie."
-- Sarah Chauncey, REEL.COM
"Blamire shows
an enthusiast's knowledge of the cheesy effects, sets and models and retro
genre music that he is spoofing.... This one could develop cult status
with the MST3K crowd"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"It
never once breaks character to wink at the audience and say, 'Man, weren't
these movies just so bad?!...' It has a lack of
irony and self-awareness that is rare in spoofs these days....
It's a film that truly deserves to be called 'So Bad It's Good.' Wait.
Change that. Lost Skeleton is so bad that it's great! Whubba-whubba-whoo!"
-- Jeremy Ritter, PENGUIN COMICS
"Producer F. Miguel
Valenti and writer-director-star Larry Blamire ... have done their homework
when it comes to staging and pacing in the fashion of Corman and his contemporaries.
The actors are all pros."
-- Astounding B. Monster, B-MOVIE.com
Yes,
it’s every bit as stupid as it sounds, and
yes, I loved it! Amidst all the insipid rom-coms and teen flicks
that clog the multiplexes in the early months of the year, who knew that
the breakout star... would be a retro med-school bag o’ bones with
a smart mouth and visible hinges?
-- Elaine Perrone, ORBITALREVIEWS.com
"A mercilessly
rollicking spoof of ‘50s drive-in sci-fi, Skeleton exercises its
share of low-budget Blaire witchcraft..."
-- Tony Reveaux, FILM/TAPE WORLD
Verdict: A -- "When
Norman Cousins experimented with beating cancer
with laughter, he watched lots of funny movies. Had 'The Lost Skeleton
of Cadavra' been available, it would have been on his must-see
list."
-- Catherine Graham, SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL
"As
an embracingly 'B' movie, it earns an 'A' for authentic comedy and successful
spoofing of its genre."
-- Chris Monroe, CHRISTIAN SPOTLIGHT ON THE MOVIES
"Delicious
spoof of ’50s sci-fi B-movies, presented with uncanny
skill at a cost of many hundreds of dollars. Anyone familiar with
Roger Corman's output in the 1950s will appreciate how much artistry (or
lack thereof) has gone into this cornball masterpiece."
-- Bruce Feld, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"This
just in: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is not a modern spoof, not a loving
parody, not a larkish, prankish adventure
in deliberately bad filmmaking. It is, in fact,
a lost film dating from 1959.... Gotta, gotta, gotta love a movie
where the Mystery Science Theater is built right in."
-- MaryAnn Johanson, THE FLICK FILOSOPHER
"directror
Larry Blamire has understood it all perfectly: the tautological dialogue
Stiff-as-a-plank thespians in spacesuits, waterlogged messages of interstellar
brotherhood."
-- Richard von Busack, METROACTIVE
"the
whole fiasco is ridiculously stupid and funny enough
to make your gums bleed.... The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is teeming
with terrible dialogue, cardboard thespians, corny props snatched off
eBay and mutilations, mutilations, MUTILATIONS!"
-- Jen Vuckovic, RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE
"With
such a great film and so little to criticize, it's almost just enough
that I recommend it with great confidence.... Do expect to laugh. Laugh
in a very intelligent, sophisticated, and sarcastic way. I wouldn't place
it under the category of comedy, though. What has been created in Lost
Skeleton is much too close to art and great film
making to be called merely 'comedy'."
-- BLOODY-DISGUSTING.com
FOUR
LAVA LAMPS! -
"a
lot of work went into the period feel of the picture. It is an accomplishment
not readily apparent to the casual viewer, but still an important one."
-- Chris Holland & Scott Hamilton, STOMP TOKYO
"naive
viewers might think this is a genuinely awful no-budget ’50s movie
– precisely the antidote for something like House of Sand and Fog....
The whole thing is exactly as stupid as it ought
to be. And I mean that in a good way."
-- Andy Klein, LA CITYBEAT, VALLEY CITYBEAT
"Now
here's a great midnight movie - thank God....
it's genius. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the plot....
The greatest of the backyard send-ups.... Lost Skeleton is NOT a movie
made to be critically reviewed AT ALL."
-- Smilin' Jack Ruby, CHUD.com (Cinematic Happenings Under Development)
The superlative reviews go on and on.... and on and on.... and on and
on.... I think we're on to something.
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