So much average

Powerful

Best movie ever!

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

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. Horrible film.Directed so poorly. And don't expect any skin eating. In fact, don't expect anything resembling a movie! Bad B&W prints abound. No acting. No story. No directing. It's not even bad funny.Nothing but sleep for you.

The title "I Eat Your Skin" should identify that this is a grade-Z flick. Specifically, it's the type that only "MST3K", Joe Bob Briggs or Elvira could present. I saw Elvira's presentation. The Mistress of the Dark's commentary made the movie watchable, and she even included a tribute to "Gilligan's Island"! The movie itself is about a Caribbean island inhabited by zombies. Not zombies like we know the term nowadays, but people manipulated to carry out someone's orders. But nonetheless, it's one of the most misbegotten movies ever made. Terrible to the point of being hilarious (quite a few of those flicks).So, just watch Elvira's version and you're sure to have fun...here on Voodoo Isle! Unpleasant dreams!

While not as famous or based on a scientific study of voodoo the way "The Serpent and the Rainbow" is, this movie—under whatever title--seems to forecast the latter Wes Carven masterpiece. This film seems to have no basis in any facts about zombies or voodoo.However, the locale in Florida does give the impression of a tropical island. The makeup might be cheap but it is good. It works.Director Del Tenney does not take himself or his film too seriously and that redeems it. This is not a so-bad-that-it-is-good movie but a simple regression to much earlier horror films. The acting is immature-well awful and not the least believable but the music works. Editing and photography are done well. Watching this is much better than submitting to reruns of police investigative program early on Sunday mornings.

Sadly, no skin is eaten in "I Eat Your Skin," but that's still a much better title for this low budget stinkeroo than its alternate, "Zombies." Filmed for what looks to be about five dollars, "Skin" tells the tale of a playboy writer who's whisked away by his agent to a jungle island where stories of strange going on abound, in the hopes that the writer will be inspired to compose his next bestseller. Once there, they find...you guessed it....freaked out zombies made so by some sort of scientific experiments being conducted by the wealthy man who lives on the island and serves as host to the writer and his posse.The handsome but completely unknown (to me at least) actor William Joyce plays the writer and delivers some beefcake eye candy to the ladies in a couple of shirtless scenes. But there's not much of a compelling reason for the rest of us to watch, unless it's to make fun of a bad movie.And oy vay does this movie do nothing for 1960s civil rights. All of the black people in the movie are either oogie-boogie savages, zombies, or zombie accomplices. Martin Luther King, please look the other way.Grade: D