WATCH THIS TRAILER:
This fucking movie.
The first five minutes or so I was laughing my tits clean off with the brilliantly stupid dialogue, all delivered deadpan without a single drip of
insincerity... but I suspected this whole act would grow tired after a
while. I turned out to be pretty goddamn
wrong.
All of the people responsible for this movie understood
that the concept in itself wouldn’t hold it all up. You can’t just be yourself writing a shit
movie and make it a funny parody-homage to unintentionally hilarious film; you
have to understand WHY those movies fail in their very sincere intentions, and
WHY we happen to find their failures both funny and endearing.
Really what everyone on the production did was act
as though they were really making an Ed Wood style film. The actors aren’t really just playing the stupid,
2-dimensional character that appears in the movie, because beneath that, they
were all portraying an actor who would actually be in a film like this. Particularly in the male alien’s performance,
you can tell that the actor he is portraying (as in the character of a bad
actor playing the bad character in a real 1950’s shit film) is really putting
his all into this horrible fucking schlock, like he was an actor in the 50’s who
has been hired on this film and he is truly excited about the production,
really thinks that it will be a great movie and feels lucky to be playing this
part.
If you’re big on Ed Wood, Plan 9 From Outer Space
or other ultra-low-budget, 1950’s B movies, other “So Bad it’s Good®” movies, this
is a very important movie to see.
If you watch it and you do in fact dig it, there’s
a sequel called: “The Lost Skeleton Returns Agains!” and a handful of other
movies the writer/director has made with the same crew, like Dark and Stormy
Night. Both of them are amazing, but
Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is the best place to get started with this series of
films with writing that eventually reaches modern-Shakespeare level of brilliance,
while still never leaving the territory of dumber than all shit.
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