Cheese is an important part of everyone’s diet, and it certainly stands to reason that one should get their fair share of the film variety. Now, current cinematic cheese includes everything from Martin Lawrence driving his daughter across country in Disney’s College Road Trip, the Flaming Lips’ Christmas on Mars, Atonement…wait…that was for real, any movie starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McCanaHeycanIstillhaveacareer, and the legion of So I Know Who Knocked Up 40-Year Virgin Ron Burgundy’s American Pie Axe-Murderering Mother movies to enjoy after the long-delayed lobotomy.

Then we have the sci fi/fantasy/horror/big ugly cheap costumed monster variety. Back in the day—the early 1960s—Roger Corman could be relied upon to churn out low budget cheese classics which sometimes featured future superstars like Jack Nicholson. In the 1970s, we got disaster cheese from Irwin Allen like landmark sludge called Earthquake. In the ’80s, well…just about every movie made in that decade classified as cheese with synths, pastels and that dude from Grey’s Anatomy when he was just plain McDorky. The ’90s had a weird variety of cheese which included variations on early ’80s slasher films with nifty titles called Scream, Scary Movie, and So…I’m Hot, Get Over It.

This week’s selection from the hard block cheese portion of the film aisle of the celluloid supermarket next to the rotting vegetables of poor M. Night’s slowly dying career is a pure low-budget mocking of all that was cheese back in the early ’60s black-and-white heyday of the Corman era. This time, it is completely played for laughs. Our Hidden Flick is The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and as the title indicates it is an important study of our current archaeological studies in Cadavra, Massachusetts starring Angelina Jolie, Harrison Ford, Matt Damon, Denzel Washington, and Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. READ ON for more…

Alright…I keed. I keed. The film is played straight and stars a cast of actors that have appeared elsewhere and are all fine thespians, but have not quite hit it big yet, which is kind of the appeal of a Hidden Flick, anyway. Written, directed and starring Larry Blamire, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is a dark and mythical tale about a skeleton with supernatural powers (he ‘walks’ and shoots lasers or something sinister like that out of his empty eye sockets), some amazing thing called ‘atmosphereum’ which will give its keeper god-like powers, and aliens landing on earth battling the wayward and daft humans in their own quest for the aforementioned powerful items. Or something like that.

I’ve seen it around four times and I still don’t know what it’s about but I don’t care. Played purely for cheesy laughs with all of the lines read in straight face, the film is cinematic cheese gold and is a grand homage to all that was bad-ass wacky back in the Corman era, plus it features occasional cool lounge music, a huge three-eyed monster that looks like a combination of that horrible burrito that you got at 2am last Saturday night, and an Incredible Hulk doll that was accidentally melted in the microwave and you have to hand it back to your kid and say, “Sorry.” (Accidentally?)

Anyway…cheese is on the menu this week and I don’t want to give away too much, but I think it is absolutely critical to your mental health to occasionally indulge your inner stoner/sci fi/horror/monster-lovin’ beast and give the cheap bastard what he truly needs: MORE CHEESE! Fetch a copy of The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and witness the flip side of Cloverfield and Blair Witch Project as Larry Blamire knows he is being silly and derivative, but also juggles a witty script and a clever cast toeing that fine line between absurd and hilarious in a cheese classic for our post-jaded “What’s Next?” era.