loujackandrandy OK, so I think my favorite part of this movie was the zombie makeup effects. I loved the bug eyes and the transformation scene. Now, the main character was kinda annoying (at least at first). All his womanizing and bad pickup lines. But for me the zombies made up for it lol.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- 1964, An Miami Beach pulp fiction author and his agent with his wife in tow are invited to a unknown Caribbean island by a British peer for a relaxing visit. The author seeks just more of surf, sand, sea and native virgin girls in bikinis. They go to get more 'research' material for the author's next book, but they get more than they bargain for in this island's terror, murder, voodoo rituals, poisoning, zombies and fighting for their lives. Gilligans island was never like this!! *Special Stars- William Joyce, Heather Hewitt, Walter Coy. Dir- Del Tenney *Theme- Be careful what adventure you wish for, you might get it.*Based on- Voodoo myths and rituals and pulp novels of the era*Trivia/location/goofs- There's no 'eating your skin' matters with zombies, just a secret doctor's elixir given to the island natives that make their skin and eyes wrinkle-ly and dry with no will of their own (like zombies) for world domination ??!!!*Emotion- A wonderfully watch-able dated early 60's film with the characters hard drinking, smoking, bikinied and male exhibiting deep misogynistic attitudes towards all the Caucasian women featured in this film. A film dinosaur to see and enjoy.

ferbs54 Pop quiz: Which film from 1964, after a brief sequence set in the tropics and some jazzy opening credits, segues into a bird's-eye view of the pool area at the Hotel Fontainebleau, and our handsome leading man cavorting with some bikinied babes? If your answer is "Goldfinger," well, a gold star for you, I suppose, but the film I was actually referring to here in an infinitely lesser affair, Del Tenney's "I Eat Your Skin." As revealed in my bible, "The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film," this picture actually first saw the light of day in 1971, after going unreleased for seven years. Apparently, producer Jerry Gross needed a film to pair with his rabid-hippies classic "I Drink Your Blood," and so purchased Tenney's picture (which had previously been titled "Voodoo Blood Bath," more appropriately) and gave it a complementary moniker. Then came the poster for the double feature with the legendary caption "2 great blood-horrors to rip out your guts"! Anyway, as has been noted elsewhere, there is no eating of skin in the Tenney film whatsoever. In it, hunky-dude playboy/writer Tom Harris (played with granite-jawed machismo by William Joyce, a poor man's Sterling Hayden) is given the assignment of going to Voodoo Island in the Caribbean to do research for his next novel, and so hightails it there with his drunken agent and the agent's kooky broad of a wife. And what do they find on the island? A madman attempting to take over the world, a scientist seeking a cure for cancer by utilizing radioactive cobra venom (!), a beautiful blond hottie for Harris to seduce and conquer, a voodoo-practicing tribe, and oh...an army of rather nasty zombies!These zombies, it should be mentioned here, are not of the George A. Romero variety; indeed, these fast-moving creatures, with horribly scabrous skin and eyes like sunny-side up eggs, would rather lop off your head with a machete than take a bite out of it. Still, they are a memorably frightening-looking bunch. Tenney's film, cheaply made as it is and shot, for the most part, in Coral Gables, FL, exudes a pulpy, Saturday matinée charm that this viewer finds kind of irresistible. The picture has any number of striking images (I love the shot of the zombie advancing toward the camera with a crate marked "Explosives") and a fairly suspenseful windup, one whose debt to another Bond film, 1962's "Dr. No," seems fairly apparent. Tenney, who not only directed this picture but also wrote and produced it, is now a very solid three for three with me; his "Horror of Party Beach" (also from 1964) and "Curse of the Living Corpse" (1963) were both also loads of fun. I don't wish to make too strong a case for "I Eat Your Skin"--the film is undeniably cinematic junk food, and as far from "art" as can be imagined--but offhand, I cannot think of a picture that would be better to watch with your favorite 12-year-old nephew. And surprise of surprises: THIS DVD, from the usually undependable folks at Alpha Video, actually looks pretty decent!

Zeegrade William Joyce is Tom Harris a womanizing writer that travels to Voodoo Island, no hint there, to investigate a forgotten tribe who sacrifice virgins for the sake of the inflicted. This is standard sixties drive-in fare and the quality shows. The screen jumps frames like a kangaroo on steroids and some of the sound is choppy and at times inaudible. Unfortunately the sound quality remains for the lines spoken by Coral (Betty Hyatt Linton) using the most gratingly annoying voice I've heard in a film. The voodoo zombies are laughably awful and the plot surrounding their creation even worse.I eat your skin can be summed up for me in one scene. Tom Harris and his companion are swimming up to a boat that is guarded by an evil henchman with a rifle. It doesn't seem to matter that they are making more noise than a comet hitting the earth with all of the splashing they make. Dumb henchman looks over the side of the boat out of curiosity and Tom grabs him and pulls the poor dope into the water. Next, he throws the RIFLE, into the water as well. As he and his companion climb into the boat Tom begins rummaging through equipment on the boat grabbing a flare gun to which his partner asks, "What are you going to do with that?". Tom shrugs his shoulders and replies "It's better than nothing" as the waterlogged rifle hits the riverbed. I'm going to guess this film was greatly ignored as part of the double feature and bodily orifices were vastly explored due to bored filmgoers.