I Eat Your Skin
| I Eat Your Skin | |
|---|---|
 Poster advertising a double feature of I Drink Your Blood and I Eat Your Skin. | |
| Directed by | Del Tenney |
| Produced by | Del Tenney |
| Written by | Del Tenney |
| Starring |
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| Music by | Lon E. Norman |
| Cinematography | Ed Gibson |
| Edited by | Larry Keating |
Production company |
Del Tenney Productions |
| Distributed by | Cinemation Industries |
Release dates |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
I Eat Your Skin (Original title: Zombies) is a 1964 horror film directed by Del Tenney shot in Florida under the title Caribbean Adventure so no one would know it was a zombie film.[1]
Plot
Writer Tom Harris arrives on a beautiful island in search of material on voodoo legends for his novel. He unfortunately stumbles onto the secret laboratory of a mad scientist who is experimenting on reversing the aging process.
Cast
- William Joyce as Tom Harris
- Heather Hewitt as Jeannie Biladeau
- Betty Hyatt Linton as Coral Fairchild
- Dan Stapleton as Duncan Fairchild
- Walter Coy as Charles Bentley
- Robert Stanton as Dr. Biladeau
- Vanoye Aikens
- Matt King
- Rebecca Oliver
- Don Strawn as Leader, Calypso Band
- George-Ann Williamson
Production
The film was not released until six years after it was made. Film distributor Jerry Gross bought it and paired it on a double bill with I Drink Your Blood and renamed it I Eat Your Skin, although the two have nothing in common. Previous titles of the film include Zombie Bloodbath and Voodoo Blood Bath.[2]
Reception
In a review of a box set, David Cornelius of DVD Talk wrote, "The film was produced in 1964 but went undistributed for six long years, and one look explains why: it's an utterly square attempt at early-60s hipness".[3] Paul Pritchard of DVD Verdict wrote, "This is just the type of cheap crap that sullies the good name of exploitation cinema."[4] In The Zombie Moving Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle wrote, "Nevermind the title—this is as mild as horror gets, and nobody eats any skin."[2]
References
- ↑ p.352 Weaver, Tom Del Tenney Interview in Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Heroes: The Mutant Melding of Two Volumes of Classic Interviews McFarland, 2000
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dendle, Peter (2001). The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia. McFarland & Company. p. 83–84. ISBN 978-0-7864-9288-6.
- ↑ Cornelius, David (2009-08-18). "Mad Monster Rally". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
- ↑ Pritchard, Paul (2010-11-26). "The Swamp Of The Ravens / Zombie". DVD Verdict. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
External links
- I Eat Your Skin at the Internet Movie Database
- I Eat Your Skin is available for free download at the Internet Archive