07/13/2005 11:24 AM
Posted by VeggieSteph

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra starring Fay Masterson, Larry Blamire

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is a spoof of all of those black and white B Sci-Fi movies from the 1950s. It’s an independent film, and worth watching if you like the movies they used to show on the much-missed Mystery Science Theater 3000. The dialogue is groan worthy, the acting is silly, the plot is outlandish, just as it is supposed to be.


The doctor and his wife, played by Larry Blamire and Fay Masterson, are out in the woods searching for Atmospherium, an element that will alter how the human race evolves. Unluckily, a space ship has crashed in the woods, releasing a terrifying mutant, and the aliens also need the Atmospherium to get their ship started again. Another doctor also needs the Atmospherium to resurrect the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, with which he is obsessed. He succeeds in resurrecting the Skeleton. While the others chase after him, the mutant chases everyone, and of course, the skeleton orders everyone about and wants to rule the world.

There are so many homages to B Sci Fi, I can’t even count them all. The “special effects” are so cheesy they look like they came right out of Terror from the Year 3000 and The Screaming Skull. The costumes the aliens wear look just like the ones in Teenagers from Outer Space. In other words, it’s an excellent spoof, and obviously Larry Blamire, the writer, director, and actor, has a love of 50s Sci-Fi. (No worries, it is better than that much loved MST3K Manos Hands of Fate, another writer, director, actor adventure.) The only way it could have been better would to have had Mike and the Bots in the corner of the screen, joking it up like always.