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Publisher Doug Fairchild (Dan Stapleton) persuades his most successful
writer Harris (William Joyce) to accompany him and his wife Coral (Betty
Hyatt Linton) to a Caribbean Island called Voodoo Island.
Besides a little zombie attack, Harris, Fairchild and Coral are warmly
welcomed on the island by the overseer Bentley (Walter Coy), Doc Biladeau
(Robert Stanton), who resides on the island to find a cure for cancer, and
the Doc's daughter Janine (Heather Hewitt), whom Harris promptly falls in
love with - but when Harris and Janine later in the evening are attacked
by zombies again, Harris figures there's something wrong, and he decides
it would be a good idea to leave the island as soon as possible - only
Janine doesn't want to come with him without her father, and her father
won't be persuaded but ultimately urges his daughter to go, especially
after it gets more and more clear that the natives want to sacrifice
Janine to their voodoo god ...
When Fairchild, Coral, Harris and Janine are just about to leave, they
are attacked by the natives who blow up their airplane and take the two
women captive - but when they plan to sacrifice Janine and Coral, Doc
Biladeau himself kills the voodoo priest - who turns out to be Bentley -
while Fairchild and Harris bring the two women to safety, and while the
four of them leave by boat, Doc Biladeau - who was actually responsible
for the creation of the zombies to build Bentley an army to conquer the
world - blows up the island and everything on it to kingdom come,
ultimately redeeming himself by sacrificing his own life.
Curiously enough, this film ends with our heroes at a swimming pool and
Don Strawn's calypso band playing ...
On one hand this is without a doubt a totally irrelevant film, just a
routine cheaply made shocker that doesn't even pretend to be more than it
is - on the other hand it's great 1960's trash cinema, full of genre
trappings and pulp clichés but moving along swiftly enough to keep one
entertained. Of course, the whole thing is silly as hell, but if you are a
connoisseur of pulp cinema like I am, you'll probably like it anyways ...
By the way, this film remained unreleased until 1971 (it was completed
in 1964) when it was released under the misleading (but by now best-known)
title I Eat Your Skin on a double bill with the Jerry Gross
production I Drink Your Blood.
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