Mjeteconer Just perfect...

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

azathothpwiggins In I EAT YOUR SKIN (aka: ZOMBIE), Uber-macho hero guy / writer, Tom Harris (William Joyce), is pried away from his gaggle of fawning fem-bots, long enough to take a trip to Voodoo Island. Why? Well, there's a mad scientist there, working on a cure for cancer, using snake venom (!). Plus, there are zombies! And young, nubile voodoo dancers! Annnd, bongo drums! Sooo, Harris is soon off for the island w/ his agent, Duncan Fairchild (Dan Stapleton) and his unbelievably squeaky, utterly annoying wife, Coral (Betty Hyatt Linton). Oh, and Coral's poodle. Within seconds after crash-landing, Tom spots his first bathing beauty! Oh no, she's being stalked by a pop-eyed zombie! No, seriously, his eyes are basically two fried eggs, painted on his head! From here, things get a tad absurd. Thankfully, voodoo dancing and mad science merge to get us through! If you enjoy hyper-schlock, especially the films of Del Tenney (THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, THE CURSE OF THE LIVING CORPSE) then, nirvana is your destination! This brain-hammer is a personal favorite...

Rainey Dawn What can I say about this one? It's odd - it uses snake venom modified to create the zombies. The natives believe in human sacrifice but it has to be a blonde virgin female. The movie really is nothing new as far as your average classic zombie movies go but adds its own twist like most all of them do - and it's kind of an odd one.If you like the older style of zombie films then this one is just "ok" to watch - it's nothing special but not a complete snooze to watch either. Another slightly less than a middle of the road production.I like the dancers in the film, in fact the scenes of the voodoo priest and his group are the best parts of this film to me. The rest of the film is meh! The acting is lacking but tolerable to watch. And the story, again, is just so-so. Watchable zombie film.4/10

Europeancinema I got this movie as part of the St. Clair Vision's Living Dead collection. I thought it would be a horror movie. But to my surprise I Eat Your Skin, while having the most gruesome title, is a comedy! Not a very funny one, but the characters go about so lightheartedly, and so ignorant, that it must be a comedy. The main character does nothing but look puzzled and ask for explanations. Almost all the ideas that he comes up with are stupid, and yet everyone follows him. There is a zombie army following at 50 meters, yet he tells the women (who never think for themselves) to stand still at some point. Obviously the zombies will catch up. It is racist as can be. Black people are either zombie or bad guy, but either way savage. It is also as sexist as can be. Women don't think for themselves (or at all). They are there to swoon for the men. The only thing that made me laugh very hard, was the island in the end. You'll know it when you see it. But don't.

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!