The Lost Skeleton Returns Again

YES IT'S TRUE! THE LOST SKELETON RETURNS AGAIN!

Variety Magazine says: "Irresistible! Blamire & Co. retain a firm hold on retro psychotronic-cinema sensibilities, parodying the already campy with deadpan in-joke assurance, wonderfully daft non sequiturs, faux-naive performance moments and faithful stylistic tropes...pushed to surreal extremes!"

Moms, hold tight your children's fragile little fingers! Girls, don't go outside without your boyfriends! The immortal skeleton lives! Because he is immortal! America's scientists warn: the lost and found bones will be in your backyard soon!

Take heed.

Study the horrors of the original Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. Little picture, big words. Take a peek... you will be scrolling down and down forever... terrifying, huh? Year after year this frightening festival favorite lurks in movie theaters around Planet Earth. You will find The Skeleton loping immortally in stores of movie watching. Earthlings: You must go to these places and ask (discretely) for the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra now... before it is too late for your children and girlfriends.

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"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)
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"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

Betty Hails the Mutant

"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

Animutant!

"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

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"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

Beauty and the Beast

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

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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)

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