I Eat Your Skin

1971 "A Carribean zombie nightmare"
3.6| 1h24m| R| en
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A cancer researcher on a remote Caribbean island discovers that by treating the natives with snake venom he can turn them into bug-eyed zombies. Uninterested in this information, the unfortunate man is forced by his evil employer to create an army of the creatures in order to conquer the world.

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Also starring Heather Hewitt

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Reviews

Nonureva Really Surprised!
Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some
Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?
Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.
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.
dwpollar 1st watched 6/29/2014 -- 1 out of 10(Dir-Del Tenney): Seriously bad movie about a mad doctor inhabiting an island called Voodoo Island initially trying to use venom to cure cancer but, of course, he starts using it on the natives and they start having a bad reaction(like they turn into zombies). And of course, the voodoo group on the island wants to sacrifice blond virgins ??, and the daughter of one of the doctors just happens to be one. A hunky athletic-type writer, played by William Joyce, is asked to go to this island to break out of his writing funk -- the publisher thinking he'll get inspired by the rumors about what's going on there. The "I can do everything" hunk upon arrival decides to try and rescue everyone and make everything right as well as write his novel. There are re-used sets, acknowledgments at the beginning of the movie to the companies who did product placements, and a lame title that doesn't really pertain to anything except to shock the audience. The makeup on the zombies is bad and there is a re-used plot borrowed from movies like "The Island of Dr. Moreau" complete with a bad guy who comes across way too nice at the beginning only to quickly become evil. It's fun once in a while to watch movies like this to wonder how it actually got made, and if the makers really had any intentions to do anything worthwhile or not. At least there are a few chuckles and the hopes that this will be covered on "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" for better chuckles but other than that this movie is pretty worthless.
Bezenby This one is pretty much one of my favourite black and white b-movies. It's got the lot: cheese, cheese, and even cheese! A playboy romance writer is plucked from his poolside harem for reasons I never quite managed to figure out to go to Voodoo Island, where, in a plot strikingly similar to Zombie Holocaust, a doctor is working on something or other involving snakes. I think the doctor tried to explain what he was doing at some point, but I was too caught up in all the zombie action.You've got to love the writer character. He's not above revealing himself from his vantage point of watching a girl skinny dipping when a zombie comes looking for her. Also, he's tough enough to get over witnessing a native getting decapitated to try and get into that skinny dipping girls pants! There's voodoo, zombies, punch-ups with zombies, chase sequences, slapstick comedy, spousal abuse (the writer thinks its hilarious!), and unluckily a bit of animal cruelty that I missed the first 50 times I watched this. It's all fun at the end of the day and if several hundred people get killed in an explosion, it's alright as long as you end sipping booze by the pool.Good stuff.
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.