I Eat Your Skin (1971)

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

I EAT YOUR SKIN is a neat little zombie film, shot in 1964 (so we get the old-fashioned zombies here, not the Romero type) but not released until seven years later. The title makes it sound like a video nasty but in fact it's a largely tame black and white jungle adventure movie with much in common with the films made in the 1940s.The plot sees a group of characters heading into the deepest jungle (actually a Floridian island) and soon discovering that the place is awash with zombies that have been created by a misguided scientist's experiments. The film has a definite swinging sixties vibe to it with a playboy hero and lots of good-natured flirtation and dialogue between the characters.The zombies themselves are really cool-looking with some great make up. They look like they're suffering from bad psoriasis with bug eyes to boot and scenes of them stalking their victims through the jungle have a genuine frisson of excitement to them. It's not a gory film at all, even though there's a brief beheading, and at times it gets bogged down in stock native ritual padding. Otherwise it's a fun little effort and one for the fans.

Totally ridiculous! The 'Zombies' are comically unreal, not undead. The lead throws a guy off a boat, clubs the guy with his own rifle, 'THROWS THE RIFLE AWAY', climbs into the boat and grabs a flare gun. His buddy says "What are you gonna do with that?" He replies, " It's better than nothing!" Geez! He just threw away a perfectly good rifle! My thirteen year old granddaughter, used to the more modern zombie movies where the zombies just keep coming at you, was totally incensed that no one got killed, maimed, or otherwise hurt. Of course that is today's zombie culture at work. Damn! Today's kids are bloodthirsty! I am a Marine and not quite that bad in wanting to see death and destruction.

Two fun couples spend some time on an island not listed by Club Med.Unhappily, the title promises an odd dinner entrée and then fails to deliver. Considering that the zombies have a case of bad skin even Clearasil can't handle, I guess that's not surprising. Looks to me like special effects first dipped them in mud, then stuck golf balls in their eyes. Whatever the deal, the walking dead are about as scary as my Aunt Clara with her make-up on. Okay, why else watch a movie whose title promises to gag you, except to make fun of the results. Actually, the movie's not bad enough for a Golden Turkey, but it tries, especially with those voodoo dances that come across like an epidemic of the dry heaves. But then hunky William Joyce and movie vet Walter Coy mess up the fun with some pretty good acting. Plus, for the guys, there's plenty of bare girl skin to feast (your eyes) on. Anyway, now I see why this epic stayed on the shelf for six years, most probably to fester. If so, they should have waited a little longer, like forever. Still, I can't wait for my copy of I Drink Your Blood, except it probably makes a libation promise it too won't keep.

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.