Laughable but mildly entertaining story about a James Bond like author able to handle not only swarms of ladies but a gun with unlimited ammunition, zombies, an airplane. Well, you get the idea. Romance, voodoo, violence, well intentioned cancer research doctor gone mad. Something for everyone.
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.
Advised by his publisher to visit an almost all female island called Voodoo, the idea is to gather material for the author's next great best seller. Little does he know until its too late that the island has lots of killer snakes, a doctor on the island with a beautiful daughter and research that is making the natives "restless" to say the least. Since our author is the biggest playboy womanizer ever, he throws away all caution.
The ending is a confessing doctor, an exploding island (most silly to watch) and a trip back to Miami where the story begins. Our playboy author is hooked on the doctor's daughter and loving it.
But what does the TITLE mean, Monsieur Rick?
Well, for starters, it has no meaning for the movie. For marketing purposes only, there was no flesh eating zombies. Just money grabbing film makers. The film was released six years after it was made. It should have been a hundred.
NOTES about the film:
1 Its fun to see the "native" white dancers at the human sacrifices doing various sixties dances. The frug, the watoosie, the loco-motion, the mashed potatoes... but fortunately and thankfully NOT the twist.
2 The zombie natives speak some sort of Italian. Quite amusing.
3 The soundtrack, if you want to call it that, is typical and unmemorable.
4 This film sat on the shelf unreleased for six years until is was picked up by distributor Jerry Gross (of Cinemation Industries), who needed a horror film to play on the bottom of a double bill with his in-house production I Drink Your Blood. The title was changed to "I Eat Your Skin" (1970).
5 Del Tenney's I Eat Your Skin was filmed in Florida in 1964, under the working title Zombies. Alot of films were made at this time to cash in on the James Bond craze, Like this one. The opening and closing scenes are filmed at Miami's Fountainbleu Hotel, the same hotel where a few scenes of Goldfinger take place. This movie was originally titled Voodoo Blood Bath.
REVIEWS about the film:
1 What a bad bad movie. It's not like I was expecting Citizen Kane or anything.
2 I EAT YOUR SKIN is very reminiscent of the works of Ed Wood on just about every level (although I think Wood was a bit weirder), so fans of his work should love it. Despite the somewhat misleading title, that's right; I EAT YOUR SKIN contains absolutely no eating of skin whatsoever.
3 I've seen this movie at least a dozen times. This is definately one of those, so bad it's good spook movies. The makeup effects, although cheap, are at the least memorable and not just grease-paint. The acting is also memorable, if only because it's so bad. The Uber macho-ism of lead character Tom Harris (played by a mostly shirtless William Joyce) will make you laugh out loud. I cannot recommend this movie enough. I was more entertained by this flick than the last 3 big budgeted movies I rented from Blockbusters!
Complete credited cast:
William Joyce ... Tom Harris
Heather Hewitt ... Jeannie Biladeau
Betty Hyatt Linton ... Coral Fairchild
Dan Stapleton ... Duncan Fairchild
Walter Coy ... Charles Bentley
Director: Del Tenney
Writer: Del Tenney
Producer: Del Tenney
See it in all its "pathetic?" glory:
http://www.archive.org/details/ForYouIDie
Runtime:84 min
Sound Mix:Mono
Color:Black and White
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June 30, 2011
