The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavera - has anyone seen this movie? Apparently it only played ina select few theaters.. Also, has anyone seen a DVD release date for it yet?

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra ... to be released on DVD 6/22 ... (as noted currently on the front page of DVD Talk) ... got 59% at RottenTomatoes ... haven't seen it but am sure looking forward to the release ....

Here's a link to a small discussion in the Movie Forum. Seems a few folks here saw the movie and wasn't impressed. One person thought it was okay. Click here

But, it might be your cup 'o tea.

I saw it in the theater and quite enjoyed it... not a classic, but if you like Mystery Science Theater 3000 and/or 50s scifi movies, you will enjoy it. It was one of those movies where my jaw hurt after from laughing and smiling so much.

I love Mystery Science Theater 3000 and flicks by Ed Wood and the like, but the film is awful. Trying to be intentionally unintentionally funny does not work as seen in the Lost Skeleton of Cadavera. I would not make it a blind buy purchase, I'd rent it first if I was you. I enjoyed the movie trailer, but I hated the 90 minute train wreck that it was.

It played for a week in Atlanta earlier this year at a Landmark theater. I didn't see the movie but I saw the trailer a couple of times, and it was terrific, the audience at first didn't know what they were seeing (myself included) but as it kept playing everyone got the joke and the laughter kept growing ...

I don't know if the trailer is available for viewing anywhere but you might be better off watching that and skip the movie. Sustaining the low-budget sci-fi film takeoff joke was probably easier over three minutes as opposed to 90.

Easily the worst film of 2004.

I agree with you. Taking Lives and Along Came Polly are tied for 2nd through.

and that Meg Ryan stinker Against the Ropes

I'll add TORQUE, MAN ON FIRE, and TWISTED to this threadjacked list!

I can't belive you guys would hijack a thread like this.

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I think that folks who grew up watching sci-fi films from the '50s--not just the bad ones, as mocked on MST3K, but all of them--have a greater appreciation for Lost Skeleton. I didn't grow up in the '50s, but I had a steady diet of those films in my youth (on UHF and at the navy-base theater, which showed them on Saturday mornings), and I loved Lost Skeleton.

My biggest complaint is that it went on too long. Then again, so did most of the films it lovingly lampoons.

I'm looking forward to the DVD. The movie's official web site is a hoot, and I'm hoping the DVD replicates that content.

It looks like it not only emulated the awful z-grade movies, but is actually one itself!

Even if it's a stinker, it looks worth checking out.

Of course, this is coming from someone who thinks Patch Adams is a worse movie than Manos: The Hands of Fate.

I'm with you. I never watched Mystery Science Theater 3000 because I hated the little talking heads. I wanted to watch the movie.

Have you seen White Gorilla? It's wonderful, with tigers in Africa, recently came out on DVD.