I Eat Your Skin

I Eat Your Skin (1971)

A Carribean zombie nightmare

A playboy adventure novelist joins his publisher on an expedition to Voodoo Island in the Caribbean, where a cancer researcher is being forced to turn the tribes-people into zombies.

Date of release
1971-05-05
TMDB
3.3 / 10 (25)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Horror
Director
Del Tenney

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Florida

I Eat Your Skin is a 1971 American horror film written, produced and directed by Del Tenney. It stars William Joyce, Heather Hewitt and Walter Coy. The film was shot entirely in Florida in 1964 under the title Caribbean Adventure to disguise from potential investors the fact that it was a zombie film.

Production

I Eat Your Skin was made by Del Tenney Productions. It is a regional film, defined by regional horror film specialist Brian Albright as one that is "(a) filmed outside of the general professional and geographic confines of Hollywood; (b) produced independently; and (c) made with a cast and crew made up primarily of residents of the states in which the film was shot." Although set on an island in the Caribbean, the movie was filmed in Miami Beach…

Heather Hewitt appeared on the cover of the September 1964 Playboy.

Composer Lon E. Norman was then the music arranger of The Jackie Gleason Show that was shot in Miami.

Tenney's original intent was to release the film - then known as Zombies - on a double feature with Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster. I Eat Your Skin was produced on a $120,000 budget, but did not find a distributor and sat unreleased for six years. Tenney eventually sold the film to Gross for $40,000.

In another interview, Tenney said that the film was shot in three weeks, not his "usual" two weeks because Twentieth Century Fox required him to use a union production crew. If he did not, he said, the company would not distribute the movie.

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