Wonderful Movie

Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

An affectionate pastiche of low budget 50's sci-fi movies filmed in ten days which marks the return to the big screen of Bronson Canyon in Los Angeles: strong, silent star of many of that era's cheesiest productions.Director Larry Blamire and Fay Masterson make an attractive couple as scientist Dr. Paul Armstrong and his wife Betty. As the exotic hybrid creature, Animala, Blamire's wife Jennifer Blaire looks electrifying in her boyish beatnik haircut and black catsuit (probably borrowed from one of the Cat-Women of the Moon); she looks even more electrifying in colour in the blooper reel.Blamire's amusing script is unfortunately let down by his sluggish pacing, and by the drabness of the black & white transfer from film to video (although - possibly by accident - in the exterior scenes Animala's outfit vividly stands out against the washed-out greyness that otherwise serves as her backdrop).

This movie was great. Made me laugh and was the definition of bad movie. It was way better than "A Million Ways to Die in the West"I loved the aliens in this film that bend in half. We actually reference this scene at work regularly. There are genuinely funny parts of the film. The alien that's made from a mattress pad is great, and the woman that is a cat keeps you on your seat the whole time. She really doesn't make any sense, but adds an unnecessary line to the movie that is entertaining.The story line is entertaining and I liked it. I recommend watching this if you are into B movies and find entertainment in low budget quirky films.

Any attempt to rate this as "awful" would mislead readers to an expectation of kitsch, so with no other choice I have opted for an innocuous "2". Sadly this production has little hope of achieving any Ed Wood-like bad taste horror film status. Instead, it is an example of just how far many have strayed from the age of innocence. By innocence, I am not referring to a lackluster script nor to the my-mates-will-do casting, which all of us, with any true community theater experience, will recall with fond, if only privately recalled, pleasure. No. By a loss of innocence I refer to the inability to recapture and communicate through film the experience of, whilst on holiday, reaching out for a beach towel and having a rat drop on your head, or a cockroach run along your arm...these things stay with us, even if we have only experienced them through media and not personally.Lost Skeleton's Director's lack of understanding in the depth of the modern and sophisticated audience's requirement to be treated as a quasi-innocent, even a momentary "idiot-savant", where suspending ones disbelief is a far more subtle, historical and complex contract than ever before, gives him away and fails him abysmally. MST3K may be of interest, if not keep it local...for our sake, 'cause cute as you are...we don't know you and so have little affiliation.

The humor in this movie is so good it captures the essence of the B movies I watched as a kid on Saturday watching the "Creature Double Feature".Those old sci-fi movies were funny while attempting to be scary.And that feeling is captured in this modern day tongue and cheek sci-fi masterpiece.The actors in the movie completely understand writer/directer Larry Blamire's sense of humor and the genre he was going after.His style reminds me of the great Mel Brooks and his satirical spin on what can be called some of the greatest movies.If you like Robin Hood And The Men In Tights, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python, Kung Pow or other comedies of that style you will love "The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra.Larry Blamire has a great sense of humor look for anything written or directed by him.