The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

I get that it’s supposed to be a comedy, but it’s not funny… (06/27/2013)

A film by fans of 1950s Hollywood sci-fi B-movies for similarly afflicted fans (of which I count myself among), an all-around ultra low-budget (a whopping $40k) enthusiastic affair that is killed by its overlong 90-minute runtime (most genre-related films from the 1950s get by just fine with about an hour of pure time), given the simplicity of the script. By the end, it was tedious. Shorten it by half an hour or so, throw out the verbal filler and a few unnecessary scenes, and it would be a delicious genre treat, where the blatant visual austerity wouldn't be a bad thing. You won't see worse visual effects (quite deliberate, of course) anywhere else, and the main villain, a skeleton apparently borrowed from a biology teacher somewhere in school, was a lot of fun, especially in his slapstick fights, with an actor holding it and swinging it around, pretending to wrestle (as in the famous fight with the octopus in Ed Wood's Bride of the Monster). The main attraction, the monster on the poster, had a punishingly small space, but his sneakers were awesome :) (05/24/2006)