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Out on video already?
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07/30/04 08:01 PM EST
posted by Blearns email web |
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Perhaps Jerry even has his copy already:
A complete delight for fans of psychotronic cinema and the Saturday-afternoon creature feature. Writer-director Larry Blamire has distilled every clich of the drive-in movie era of low-budget horror and put it into The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, 90 minutes of pitch-perfect spoofing. The dialogue is marvelously insipid, and the music (taken from a stock music library) cuts in and out of the action with breathtaking suddenness. It was even shot in Bronson Canyon, location of many a cheap B-picture (one knock: the black-and-white image, shot on video, wears the eye out after a while). Aliens from Mars crash-land, setting loose a mutant, while a mad scientist re-awakens a talking skeleton that could hold the key to world domination. And don't forget Animala, a half-woman, half-animal beatnik! Rowwwr! Blamire allows it all to run on too long, yet hardcore fans of this movie world will be hard-pressed to complain.
[ Amazon.com: DVD: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra ] |
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| I bought this as a gift for my stepdad Chris a few weeks ago. What a gem! |
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07/31/04 07:16 AM EST
posted by nate web |
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| Yeah, I saw this movie last week. It's definitely different. There were some times where it annoyed me and it ultimately felt like it was half an hour too long. |
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| I can sympathize a bit, Nate, but there were a few fantastic lines of insipidly stupid & funny dialogue (e.g. "Us, aliens? Is this one of your Earth jokes?"). |
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07/31/04 07:30 AM EST
posted by nate web |
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| Yeah, pretty much every "Earth *" joke was funny. The repeitous use of "science" made me crack up every time too. Then there was the visual joke where the scene lasts just a few seconds longer than it should. That was funny the first or second time but not every time after that. |
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| Nate, did you get a chance to watch any of the extras? Was there anything on this disc that made it worth buying rather than renting? |
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08/04/04 09:11 AM EST
posted by nate web |
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I think I did watch some of the extras. However they didn't seem too "special". The one extra I seem to remember watching (keep in mind that I was very tired when watching it) was the blooper reel. It had it's moments. Hrm...now that I think about it, I might be confusing the credits with the blooper reel.
I would definitely recommend netflixing it and then deciding if you want to buy it. |
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