The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra
There are good movies and there are bad movies. There are movies that are intended to be good but turn out bad, and movies that are so bad that they end up being good. Somewhere in the middle lies The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra, the 2001 film shot in the style of those “so bad they’re good” sci-fi classics from the drive-in era.
At first glance the movie appears to originate from that era. Originally shot in in MiniDV format, the film has been digitally converted to black and white and manipulated to look older than it really is. The plot harkens back to the midnight budget films from that era as well. A series of coincidences has led three separate couples to the same location, searching for the ultra-rare radioactive element “atmosphereum”. Scientist Paul Armstrong and his wife Betty are searching for a meteor filled with atmosphereum, which has crashed in a field. Kro-Bar and his wife Lattis, two aliens from the planet Marva who have crash landed on Earth and need atmosphereum to repair their rocket. And then there’s Dr. Roger Fleming, the mad scientist who needs atmosphereum to bring the titular Lost Skeleton of Cadavra back to life. Thrown into the mix later are Animala, the “half woman/half four other forest animals” dancing queen, and “The Mutant”, a horrible-looking creature whose costume gives Sigmund the Sea Monster a run for his money. (more…)
