History Film / TheLostSkeletonOfCadavra

* AffectionateParody: The movie was clearly made in good fun of classic B-movies.

* AntagonistTitle: The film's title is the "name" of the it's BigBad.

* TheFifties: There's nothing in the movie that is overly 1950s in nature, but the movie itself is a parody of 50s B movies.

%%* SpaceClothes. And SpockSpeak.

* TheFifties: As s send-up of 50s B movies, the movie it's naturally set in the same time period.

%%* TheFifties

%%* BadBoss: The Skeleton.

* {{Anticlimax}} / CurbStompBattle: The Skeleton vs. the Magraclop. [[spoiler:crunch]]

* DemBones: The Skeleton of course.

%%* DeadpanSnarker: The Skeleton.

%%* DemBones

-->THE END? [[spoiler:OR IS IT? ISN'T IT MORE LIKE A KIND OF BEGINNING IN A WAY? LIKE A NEW BEGINNING? FOR EVERYONE? HM... I WONDER... OH WELL.]]

The plot revolves around Dr. Paul Armstrong (a man OF SCIENCE), [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr.]] Roger Fleming (a man OF EVIL), and Kro-Bar and Lattis (aliens FROM OUTER SPACE), all of whom wish to acquire the rare radioactive element "[[{{Unobtainium}} atmosphereum]]" for various reasons: [[ForScience to do science,]] to revive a [[DemBones mysterious lost skeleton]] and to [[AppliedPhlebotinum power their spaceship,]] respectively. A mutant (WHO KILLS FOR KICKS!) and a [[PettingZooPeople petting zoo person]] factor in here somehow also.

* GoshDangItToHeck

* LargeHam: Andrew Parks decided to play Kro-Bar as though he thought it was the role of a lifetime. There's also a lot of [[Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace Eros]] in there.

* AgentScully: Dr. Fleming is a scientist; he doesn't believe in ''anything''.
* AffectionateParody: The movie was clearly made in good fun.

* AntagonistTitle: The film's title is the "name" of the film's BigBad.

* JungleJapes

%%* ConfusingMultipleNegatives

%%* JungleJapes

%%* ThePollyanna: Betty

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* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Someone asks Paul if, since he studies meteors, he's a meteorologist. Paul laughs, and explains that a meteorologist is a weather man. No, he's a ''meteographer''. Which, if that was a real word, would mean something like "one who writes in the air."[[note]]There's actually a few different brances of science, like Chemistry, Geology, and Astronomy, that study meteors, or in Paul's specific case, meteorites.[[/note]]

%%* AntagonistTitle

%%* DeliberatelyMonochrome

* MarsNeedsWomen: The Mutant and Betty. Inverted with the Skeleton wanting to marry Lattis, as she's an alien and he's presumably from Earth. However, she's a HumanAlien and he's...a skeleton, so it still looks like this trope played straight.

** Paul Armstrong and Roger Fleming are both scientists. Paul spends a couple scenes staring into a microscope (and doing other things that could be called experimentation by someone feeling charitable), but otherwise seems more interested in discussing what a scientist's life is like than doing anything scientific. Roger doesn't even do that much, as the actor puts it, he spends all day laughing in a cave. In one scene he does have what appears to be a [[NoBudget child's chemistry set]] laid out on the floor of the cave, though he doesn't actually do anything with it.

* NoBudget: The movie was made on a budget of $100,000, most of which went towards securing the location. In this case, the lack of budget was a positive, since the movies it was parodying were likewise made on shoestring budgets.

A 2001 AffectionateParody of campy 1950s {{B Movie}}s, complete with nonsensical plot, stilted acting and cheap SpecialEffects. Directed by, written by and starring Larry Blamire.

In 2008 a sequel ''The Lost Skeleton Returns Again'' was made by Blamire, this time in the style of a 1960's color cheapie; it was released on DVD in August, 2010.

* BadBadActing: Everyone. Dan Conroy, the actor who played Ranger Brad, plays his character as though he were [[CastTheExpert an actual park ranger who got talked into playing a role in the movie]] because he had his own costume.

* ClusterFBomb: Not in the film's final cut, but the actor in the Mutant costume swore up a storm during his fight with the skeleton.

* {{Anticlimax}}: The Skeleton vs. the Magraclop. [[spoiler:crunch]]

* AntagonistTitle

* BadBoss: The Skeleton.

* BeastAndBeauty / MarsNeedsWomen: The Mutant is smitten by Betty. The Skeleton decides to marry Lattis.

* ScreamingWoman

* SpaceClothes. And SpockSpeak.

** Well, the locations part wasn't totally off. Bronson Canyon is a pretty well-known place...to movie buffs. Hell, most of the film's budget went to getting the rights to film there.

* {{Anticlimax}} / CurbStompBattle: The Skeleton vs. the Magraclop. [[spoiler: crunch]]
* ConfusingMultipleNegatives

-->'''Bartender:''' Si, I know a gringo. We call him...the Man in the Corner. ''(indicates man sitting in the corner of the bar)''

* ItsTheJourneyThatCounts: Subverted, since it turns out that [[spoiler: Animala had the Jerranium 90 all along]].

* JungleJapes

** AuthorAppeal: Still the director's wife. Still a lucky bastard.

* ThePollyanna: Betty

** Animala is said to be a person-shaped [[LEGOGenetics mix]] of four different animals, but is not even a LittleBitBeastly outside acting like an... animal. At the end, these are revealed to be a fox, two ferrets, and a squirrel.

* InformedAttribute: Animala is said to be a person-shaped [[LEGOGenetics mix]] of four different animals, but is not even a LittleBitBeastly outside acting like an... animal. At the end, these are revealed to be a fox, two ferrets, and a squirrel.

* LeaveTheCameraRunning / {{Padding}}: A requirement for a film spoofing 50s B-movies. Though they purposely made the padding funny, unlike the movies they're referencing.

* MsFanservice: Animala. Rowr.
** AuthorAppeal: That's the director's wife. That lucky bastard.
* OverlyLongGag: The scene mentioned in ContemplateOurNavels. It goes on so long that it goes from funny to tedious to funny again.