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company: Bantam Street
year: 2009
runtime: 93′
director: Larry Blamire
cast: Frank Dietz, H. M. Wynant,
Brian Howe, Christine Romeo,
Kevin Quinn, Fay Masterson,
Robert Deveau, Daniel Roebuck,
Larry Blamire, Susan McConnell
writer: Larry Blamire
cinematography: Anthony J. Rickert-Epstein
music: John W. Morgan
and William T. Stromberg
Reviewed from a screener provided
by Shout! Factory, LLC.
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Plot: Two bands of adventurers, one good, one bad, and one including a man possessed by a living skull, head into the Valley of the Monsters on the hunt for Geranium, a rare element that will . . . something . . .
Writer, director and actor Larry Blamire has made something of a name for himself in cult film circles for his low budget send-ups of the B-grade science fiction of old, and is best known for the prequel to this film – 2004’s The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. Picked up and released through Sony Pictures, The Lost Skeleton… proved pretty successful for a no-bugdet niche production with limited appeal beyond its target audience of bad cinema aficionados. A sequel seemed inevitable and, after the similarly themed 2007 effort Trail of the Screaming Forehead, the inevitable came to pass.
