User:Yorick~enwiki/Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is an independent film spoofing 1950s era B-movies. It was videotaped on a budget of less than $100,000, and converted to black and white film in post-production. Actors were instructed to give wooden performances to help with the intentional cheesiness of the film. Director Larry Blamire also wrote and acted in the film. In total, it took five days to write, and just over 10 days to film. It was released in theaters in 2001, and on DVD in 2004.

Plot synopsis
Set in 1961, the film begins with hardworking scientist Dr. Paul Armstrong (Larry Blamire) and his dedicated wife Betty (Fay Masterson) driving into the mountains. Dr. Armstrong is searching for a meteor that has fallen in the nearby woods, suspected to contain the rare element atmosphereum. Another scientist in the area, Dr. Roger Fleming (Brian Howe) questions Ranger Brad (Dan Conroy) about Cadavra Cave, a site held in awe by the locals and rumored to contain a "Lost Skeleton."

In the evening, both the Armstrongs and Dr. Fleming observe in the sky another falling meteor. An instant later, a farmer encountered by the Armstrongs on their way to the cabin is horribly mutilated by a mysterious beast. The second meteor is, in reality, a pair of aliens in a spaceship. Kro-Bar (Andrew Parks) and Lattis (Susan McConnell) are stranded on Earth, in need of the element atmosphereum to repair their powerless ship. The ship's pet mutant escapes from its cage while they are distracted.

The next day, Dr. Roger Fleming finds and enters Cadavra Cave, at last locating the Lost Skeleton. The Skeleton commands Fleming to locate atmosphereum to return him to life. Meanwhile, Dr. Armstrong and Betty adventure into the woods, finally discovering the meteor just outside Cadavra Cave. Dr. Fleming overhears them, and begins to plot to steal the meteor from the pair.

Kro-Bar and Lattis journey into the woods, locating the cabin containing the meteor. Using a device called the "transmutatron," they disguise themselves as "Earth people" and clumsily manage to talk their way inside the cabin, being mistaken for the property owners. Not long after they arrive, Dr. Fleming discovers the aliens' transmutatron, left outside the cabin since it would ruin their disguise. He uses it to create an ally for himself, the alluring Animala (Jennifer Blaire), created from four different woodland creatures. After briefly teaching Animala the basics of human interaction, he leads her to the cabin and convinces the Armstrongs to invite him inside.

Soon it becomes clear to Lattis and Kro-Bar (calling themselves "Turgaso" and "Bammin" on Earth) that Fleming knows their secret. They soon ally to steal the meteor, after Betty is mentally attacked by the Skeleton and Dr. Armstrong is entranced by Animala's dancing. The evil scientist has tricked the pair, however, and the Skeleton uses his mind powers to freeze the aliens in place once Dr. Fleming has the meteor.

Taglines

 * You'll be sterilized in fear!
 * None Can Stand Its Mental Power!
 * Supreme Shock Sensation of our Time!
 * This was the day the Earth was disemboweled in terror!
 * Filmed in the Miracle of "Skeletorama!" New Screen Wonder of the Age!

Memorable dialogue

 * Dr. Armstrong: "Do you realize what this meteor could mean to science? If we find it, and it's real, it could mean a lot. It could mean actual advances in the field of science."
 * Ranger Brad: "Quiet day. I certainly hope someone needs a forest ranger here sometime." Dr. Fleming: "Hello. I'm Dr. Roger Fleming, and I seem to have lost my way." Ranger Brad: "I'm Ranger Brad, and that's what I'm here for. You can call me Ranger Brad. Most folks do." Dr. Fleming: "Yes, of course. Ranger Brad. I like that."
 * Dr. Fleming: "Ranger Brad, I'm a scientist. I don't believe in anything!"
 * Dr. Fleming: "You're against me, aren't you? Of course you are. All skeletons are against me. They always have been. Even as a child, I was hated by skeletons!"
 * Kro-Bar: "You need not yell because of my proximity." Lattis: "I yell not from the volume required by great distance, but from happy excitement."
 * Ranger Brad: "We take our horrible mutilations seriously in these parts."
 * Kro-Bar: "Aliens? Us? Is this one of your Earth jokes?"
 * Lattis: "You are in a spaceship now. It's just like your house, except it travels through space."
 * Betty: "Well, I guess if I wanted to have a safe life, I wouldn't have married a man who studies rocks."