# The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127 "2005-08-22T16:19:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/1 "2005-08-22T16:19:49Z")
Amidst all my MST waching, I took time out to get this gem from Netflix - what a hoot! Pitch-perfect parody of 50’s Sci-Fi. I think the only cliche they missed was “Shooting really obvious day-for-night”. … I SLEEP NOW! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/2 "2005-08-22T16:23:40Z")
“Rowr.” Animala makes the film. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/3 "2005-08-22T16:50:14Z")
Animala was hot. I really liked this film, it reminded me of all the awful “creature feature” I watched growing up in the 70s. I wish someone would make a good, laughable spoof on the post-apocalypse mutant films of the red scare too. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/4 "2005-08-22T17:06:28Z")
I saw this on cable a while back, then tried tro buy it – but now it’s gone from the video stores. I grew up on the cheapo 1950s films this parodies – all bottom-of-the-barrel flicks, and I can identify which ones are being parodied. **Plan Nine from Outer Space** and **the Cape Canaveral Monsters** and (for Animala) **The Astounding She Creature** , among others. Great stuff. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/5 "2005-08-22T17:16:32Z")
Animala is definitely hot. I also enjoy the horribly abusive Skeleton. “I always hated you!” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/6 "2005-08-22T17:33:33Z")
I’m glad people here liked the movie, which got mixed reviews. I thought it was hilarious. “This could lead to important advances in the field of science.” “We take our horrible mutilations seriously around these parts” “I’m a scientist, Ranger Dan. I don’t believe in anything.” ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/7 "2005-08-22T17:42:37Z")
I laughed out loud when I saw the trailer in the theatre (before **Bubba Ho-Tep** ), and eventually bought the DVD. Unfortunately, the full-length movie was meh. It needed to go way over the top toward the end, but continued to plod along. But the trailer is sheer genius. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/8 "2005-08-22T17:59:25Z")
I need to own a copy of that. Almost every line is good. My two favorites: “Aliens? Us!? Is this one of your Earth jokes?” and “I guess if I wanted a safe life, I wouldn’t have married a man who studies rocks.” ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/9 "2005-08-22T18:39:44Z")
Actually found it at Borders. I was smiling in line to pay for it, on the drive home and was rolling when I sat down to watch it. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/10 "2005-08-22T18:52:22Z")
I only thing I fault the movie for is that the pacing was a bit t o o s l o w. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/11 "2005-08-22T19:10:58Z")
“Mankind could benefit in many ways, many of them good” “Amish terrarium, must get Amish terrarium” “it’s just like your house…only it travels thru space” Who knows how many will die at it’s hands" “If only it _DID_ have hands, my woman, if only it _did_ have hands \” …and of course, the classic “Dinner scene” ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/12 "2005-08-22T19:24:43Z")
“Seriously, we’ll clean the dishes before we go.” One of the funniest throw away lines ever. I love this film. Yes the pacing is slow… but so are the films it parodies. it is a result of the small plot in the big film. With crappy films Nowadays we fill in the time with explosions, car chaces and gun fights. Back then they had no budget so filled the time with walking and talking and going over the plot again and again. other favorite lines “Hmmmm I also wonder” "Of course, Betty, it’s absurd. Putting the Amish in glass cases would be inhumane. " “I must make a skeleton meatier using a crowbar covered in lettuce.” “Even when I was a child, I was hated by skeletons!” ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/13 "2005-08-22T22:52:00Z")
My husband and I were just talking about how we need to buy this movie. “I sleep now!” and “Row-er” have become part of our household lexicon. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/14 "2005-08-22T22:59:57Z")
Another “meh” vote. It was just a tad too long for me. ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/15 "2005-08-22T23:08:04Z")
I wish I could appreciate things, like cabins. And bicycles. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/16 "2005-08-22T23:26:58Z")
“Moons, teaspoons… that’s all gibberish to me I’m afraid.” ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/17 "2005-08-23T12:24:49Z")
It is one of the most quotable movies I’ve ever seen… “Tip-tip-tip-tip-tip.” “Always agree.” ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/18 "2005-08-23T12:44:12Z")
“quickly Fold In The Middle!!” ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/19 "2005-08-23T15:41:39Z")
I just about died during the scene where they’re all drinking from candle holders, uh I mean alien glasses. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127/20 "2005-08-23T16:29:05Z")
or seeing the pegboard wall with all the miscellanious mechanical gauges behind them… sorry, “HyperNeutronium VentiMesh Support Structure” with “Chronomat Indicator Technology System”… or their incredible (cardboard tube) spaceship… or even better, the Transmutatron (no it’s _NOT_ a caulking gun, really… i mean it, it’s really _not_ a caulking gun, don’t be silly) the first time Lattis uses the Transmutatron, he props it up with a stick, uses it to convert himself and Lattis into their human forms, then goes back to the Transmutatron, picks it up… then throws the _stick_ away, yet leaves the Transmutatron laying in plain sight… Animala’s hands go from ungloved, to “kitty gloves” midway thru the film, no explination… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-skeleton-of-cadavra/318127.md?page=2)