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Subject: Re: Script Book Volume 1 Received
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:40:55 +0000 (UTC)
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

Amy Guskin wrote:

> >> JMS seems to be having a great time writing the volume descriptions.  Check
> >> out
> >> http://www.babylon5scripts.com/Vol02.htm .
> >
> >
> > He's been looking at those blurbs for horror movies from the '50's
> > again, hasn't he? <<
>
> Which reminds me: if you haven't seen "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" yet,
> run, do not walk, to your local video store and rent it.  Now.  I'm serious.
> It's incredibly funny, and should inspire many drinking games.  It's a parody
> of 50s horror movies, but done by playing it as a nearly absolutely deadpan
> straight homage.  It's just hilarious.  Trust me.  Go get it.  Now.
>

I have to concur with Amy's description of the movie.  I picked it up
on a whim on DVD and loved it.  (The ancillary features are also pretty
funny.)  If you know the SF/horror movies produced during the period
they're spoofing -- and sadly I've seen all of them, from the really
yucky stuff to the silly stuff, Attack of the Crab Monster, Robot
Monster, on and on -- then you're the perfect audience for this
particular movie, which also shows what you can do with something like
forty grand to make a movie.  It's just fall-over funny.

jms