Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

dwpollar 1st watched 6/29/2014 -- 1 out of 10(Dir-Del Tenney): Seriously bad movie about a mad doctor inhabiting an island called Voodoo Island initially trying to use venom to cure cancer but, of course, he starts using it on the natives and they start having a bad reaction(like they turn into zombies). And of course, the voodoo group on the island wants to sacrifice blond virgins ??, and the daughter of one of the doctors just happens to be one. A hunky athletic-type writer, played by William Joyce, is asked to go to this island to break out of his writing funk -- the publisher thinking he'll get inspired by the rumors about what's going on there. The "I can do everything" hunk upon arrival decides to try and rescue everyone and make everything right as well as write his novel. There are re-used sets, acknowledgments at the beginning of the movie to the companies who did product placements, and a lame title that doesn't really pertain to anything except to shock the audience. The makeup on the zombies is bad and there is a re-used plot borrowed from movies like "The Island of Dr. Moreau" complete with a bad guy who comes across way too nice at the beginning only to quickly become evil. It's fun once in a while to watch movies like this to wonder how it actually got made, and if the makers really had any intentions to do anything worthwhile or not. At least there are a few chuckles and the hopes that this will be covered on "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" for better chuckles but other than that this movie is pretty worthless.

catholiccsi 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.

evanston_dad 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

catfish-er *** CONTAINS SPOILERS *** I just started working my way through the Chilling Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection and EAT YOUR SKIN is the fourth movie in the set. I EAT YOUR SKIN owes a lot to WHITE ZOMBIE (included in the Horror Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection, also by Mill Creek Entertainment).As others have mentioned, I EAT YOUR SKIN falls into the category of the more traditional zombie movie, with the undead being subservient to a voodoo practitioner. The back-story is quite muddled, with a scientist located on the island, to discover a cure for cancer using cobra venom; and, a tribe relocated from Africa, with some misguided mythology concerning human sacrifice.All of the actors are dreadful. The plot is even more so. The dialog is the worst yet.I am surprised that no one reviewing this film has mentioned the ending – both, for when the doctor reveals someone else's plan to take over the world with unconquerable zombies AND the computerized self-destruct mechanism on the island. I mean, where did those come from?!?