USA, 1964
92m
35mm film, black and white, 1.85:1
mono, English
An American horror film directed by Del Tenney. It was shot in in 1964 Florida under the title Caribbean Adventure but remained unseen until it was bought by Jerry Gross in 1970 who retitled it I Eat Your Skin and released it on a double bill with I Drink Your Blood (1970).
Plot Summary
A cancer researcher on a remote Caribbean island teats locals with snake venom and turns them into zombies.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Del Tenney
© [not given on screen]
Jerry Gross presents. A Cinemation Industries, Inc. release
Produced by: Del Tenney
Associate Producers: Dan Stapleton, Jesse Hartman
Production Manager: Mel Pape
Wrtten by: Del Tenney
2nd. Unit Director: William Grefe
Director of Photography: François Farkas
Camera Operator: Ed Gibson
Assistant Camera: Leonard DeMunde
Film Editor: Larry Keating
Assistant Editor: Monty Swartz
Music Composed and Conducted by: Lon E. Norman
Sound Recording: Edmund Wright
Costume Supervisor: Jane Hagerty
Make up: Guy Del Rosso
Art Director: Robert Verberkmoes
Casting Director: Doris Bernhardt
Production Secretary: Frances Hidden
Cast
William Joyce
Heather Hewitt
Walter Coy
Dan Stapleton
Betty Hyatt Linton
Robert Stanton
Vanoye Aikens
Rebecca Oliver
Matthew King
George-Ann Williamson
Don Strawn's Calypso Band
Alternative Titles
Caribbean Adventure – working title
Ti mangerò la pelle – Italian title
Voodoo Blood Bath – advertising title
Woodoo Island – Swedish title
Zombie
Zombie Bloodbath
Links
Extracts included in
Mad Monster Rally (2009)
Morella Presents Graveyard Theater: Blood Vision (2008)
Swamp Man (2016)
They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé (2016)
References
Periodicals
Castle of Frankenstein no.17 p.4
Filmfacts vol.14 no.5 (1971) pp.96-97
Books
The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) p.162
Feature Films, 1960-1969: A Filmography of English-language and Major Foreign-language United States Releases by Harris M. Lentz III p.211
Horror and Science Fiction Films III by Donald C. Willis p.137
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.210 – credits
Regional Horror Films, 1958-1990 by Brian Albright p.194
The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia by Peter Dendle p.83-84
