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* BitchSlap: Dr. Biladeau slaps his daughter Janine across the face as he orders her to leave the laboratory and the island at once.
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Dr. Biladeau slaps his daughter Janine across the face as he orders her to leave the laboratory and the island at once.

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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Dr. Charles Bentley denies any sort of unusual voodoo sacrifice activity going about on the island when confronted by Tom about it. But after Janine is attacked and nearly kidnapped by zombies, Bentley caves and reads to Tom a passage describing the island native's voodoo ritual sacrifices requiring a virgin and explain what is happening.

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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: StepfordSuburbia: As Coral and Duncan admire the tropical sunset on Voodoo Island, Tom warns them that not all is as lovely as it seems.
* StuffBlowingUp: A zombie walks toward the plane carrying a box of dynamite, causing the plane to explode and killing Eduardo the pilot inside. Later, Dr. August Biladeau rigs the science experiment machinery in his laboratory to blow up the entire island [[spoiler: and stop Charles Bentley's plan for world domination once and for all]].
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Dr. Charles Bentley denies any sort of unusual voodoo sacrifice activity going about on the island when confronted by Tom about it. But after Janine is attacked and nearly kidnapped by zombies, Bentley caves and reads to Tom a passage describing the island native's voodoo ritual sacrifices requiring a virgin and explain what is happening.happening.
** Tom asks the housekeeper Juarita about voodoo drums and human sacrifice, but she is a member of the voodoo cult and feigns ignorance.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Dr. Charles Bentley denies any sort of unusual voodoo sacrifice activity going about on the island when confronted by Tom about it. But after Janine is attacked and nearly kidnapped by zombies, Bentley caves and reads to Tom a passage describing the island native's voodoo ritual sacrifices requiring a virgin and explain what is happening.
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%%* EventTitle* EventTitle: The film mostly is centered on the ritual virgin sacrifices performed by the voodoo cultists on an island that crawling with zombies [[spoiler: and a mad scientist]].



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%%* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath: The film's title I Eat Your Skin. Which is gory and malicious as it sounds given that it is about zombies and voodoo ritual sacrifices.
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* MoralEventHorizon: A remorseful Dr. Biladeau warns Tom and Janine that it is too late for him to leave the island with them as certain things have gotten out of hand. [[spoiler: Such as his experiments with the zombies and Dr. Charles Bentley blackmailing him]].
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* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The film opens up with Tom telling the women gathered around him one of his novel stories at the swimming pool and ends with Tom doing the same thing before splashing around playfully in the swimming pool with his love interest Janine]].
* ChekhovsGun: The flare gun. [[spoiler: Tom uses it to shoot one of the voodoo cultists as he and the group escape]].


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* MoralEventHorizon: A remorseful Dr. Biladeau warns Tom and Janine that it is too late for him to leave the island with them as certain things have gotten out of hand. [[spoiler: Such as his experiments with the zombies and Dr. Charles Bentley blackmailing him]].


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* WhamShot: One of the voodoo ritual sacrifice cultists is stabbed and his mask falls off upon dying, revealing him to be [[spoiler: Charles Bentley]] all along.
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* InappropriateHunger: Upon crash landing, Coral asks Tom to find her a banana or a coconut or something. She says she gets hungry with excitement.
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* OffWithYourHead: One zombie attacks Tom and decapitates the fisherman's head.

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* OffWithYourHead: OffWithHisHead: One zombie attacks Tom and decapitates the fisherman's head.



* WeaknessWeaksauce: Bullets have no effect on the island zombies. However, fire can temporarily stun or incapacitate them.

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* WeaknessWeaksauce: WeaksauceWeakness: Bullets have no effect on the island zombies. However, fire can temporarily stun or incapacitate them.

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* InstantSeduction: Tom is able to seduce various women at the swimming pool, and one married woman into kissing him, just by telling one of his stories from his prized novels.



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Tom and Janine notices how angry and hostile and quick Dr. Biladeau is when he orders them to leave at once, and Janine notes that she's never seen her father act like this before.

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Tom and Janine notices how angry and hostile and quick Dr. Biladeau is when he orders them to leave at once, and Janine notes that she's never seen her father act like this before.before.
* OffWithYourHead: One zombie attacks Tom and decapitates the fisherman's head.

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* NoSell: Tom fires four bullets into one of the zombies to no effect.




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* WeaknessWeaksauce: Bullets have no effect on the island zombies. However, fire can temporarily stun or incapacitate them.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Duncan, a man who dresses quite stylishly, speaks in a high pitched voice, and is close friends with Tom. Also, despite being affectionate towards his wife Coral and spoiling her with luxuries, at one point Duncan is hesitant to go to bed with his wife Coral as he preferred to just get drunk for that evening.
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* The1960s: 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.

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* The1960s: TheSixties: 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.
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* The60s: 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.

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* The60s: The1960s: 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.

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* AndIMustScream: The girl being sacrificed for the voodoo ritual in the film's opening seems to be aware of what is happening to her but is powerless to stop it.



* FanDisservice: The film opens with an extended sequence of a bikini-clad woman dancing seductively and then subsequently being murdered by a zombie.

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* FanDisservice: The film opens with an extended sequence of a bikini-clad woman dancing seductively and then subsequently being murdered by for a zombie.voodoo ritual sacrifice.


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* GoryDiscretionShot: The camera cuts away to the opening title sequence as a voodoo cultists behead a girl being sacrificed for a voodoo ritual.

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* DeadlyEuphemism: Fernando warns Janine about Papa Neybo, saying he wants to make her "the goat without horns".


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* HeKnowsTooMuch: Fernando gets killed by the voodoo cultists after warning Tom and Janine about their evil plans.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Tom is so busy looking at Janine skinny-dipping that he just barely notices one of the island zombies creeping close by.


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* FanserviceExtra: All the bikini clad women gathered around Tom to listen to his stories.

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* NatureAdoresAVirgin: Janine is chosen for an upcoming human voodoo sacrifice due to the island's sacrificial rituals requiring virgins for them to work and their medicinal power, and Janine is hunted down and nearly kidnapped by zombies many times due to her virginity.

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* NatureAdoresAVirgin: Janine is chosen for an upcoming human Once Tom learns of how the voodoo sacrifice due to the island's sacrificial rituals requiring virgins for them to work and their medicinal power, and Janine is hunted down and nearly kidnapped by zombies many times due why would they want with Janine, he makes sure to take care of Janine's virgin problem to prevent her virginity.from being sacrificed.


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* VirginPower: A virgin woman is most requested for the voodoo sacrifice rituals. Janine is chosen for an upcoming human voodoo sacrifice due to her pure virginity and is hunted down and nearly kidnapped by zombies many times.
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* AndYourLittleDogToo: [[spoiler: Charles Bentley threatened to kill Janine unless Dr. August Biladeau continued to work on the zombies for him]].
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Dr. Biladeau slaps his daughter Janine across the face as he orders her to leave the laboratory and the island at once.


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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Tom and Janine notices how angry and hostile and quick Dr. Biladeau is when he orders them to leave at once, and Janine notes that she's never seen her father act like this before.
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* DeusSexMechina: One of the reasons Tom sleeps with Janine is so that she wouldn't be sacrificed as a virgin for a voodoo ritual. Unfortunately, Janine still gets kidnapped and prepared for a sacrifice.

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* DeusSexMechina: DeusSexMachina: One of the reasons Tom sleeps with Janine is so that she wouldn't be sacrificed as a virgin for a voodoo ritual. Unfortunately, Janine still gets kidnapped and prepared for a sacrifice.
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* DeusSexMechina: One of the reasons Tom sleeps with Janine is so that she wouldn't be sacrificed as a virgin for a voodoo ritual. Unfortunately, Janine still gets kidnapped and prepared for a sacrifice.


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* ItsPersonal: A non-virginal like Janine being sacrificed for a voodoo ritual when the requirements specifically call for a virgin woman seems quite personal. [[spoiler: Bentley attempting to kill Janine just to keep Dr. Biladeau working on his zombies proves to be this]].
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* VirginSacrifice: One of the most important requirements for the voodoo sacrifice rituals to work is having a virgin woman be used for the sacrifice.

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* VirginSacrifice: One of the most important requirements for the voodoo sacrifice rituals to work is having a virgin woman women be used for the sacrifice.sacrifice. Later, they specifically request a blonde virgin woman for the ritual to work i.e. Janine.

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* DamselInDistress: Coral and Janine get kidnapped and held captive for a voodoo sacrifice ritual. Luckily, they get rescued by Tom and Duncan.




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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Coral's prized pet poodles aren't seen again for the remainder of the film after the group takes residence in the island's cabin.
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* ValuesDissonance: The scene where an angry jealous husband kicks his wife's behind and pushes her and shoves her away after catching her with Tom at the pool is all played for laughs.

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* ValuesDissonance: The scene where an angry jealous husband kicks his wife's behind and pushes her and shoves her away after catching her with Tom at the pool is all played for laughs.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Tom meets the angry husband of the woman he was kissing at the swimming pool and manages to escape him.


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* DomesticAbuse: The husband inflicts physical abuse on his wife after catching her cheating with Tom and he tries to kill Tom too. All played for laughs.


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* MsFanservice: Janine swimming nude in the island waters.



* VirginInAWhiteDress: Janine is wearing a white nightgown as she has sex with Tom for the first time.

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* SexyDiscretionShot: The scene cuts away to the window curtains blowing as Tom and Janine have sex for the first time.
* VirginInAWhiteDress: Janine is wearing a white nightgown as she has sex with Tom for the first time.loses her virginity to Tom.
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* NatureAdoresAVirgin: Janine is chosen for an upcoming human voodoo sacrifice due to the island's sacrificial rituals requiring virgins for them to work and their medicinal power, and Janine is hunted down and nearly kidnapped by zombies many times due to her virginity.


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* VirginInAWhiteDress: Janine is wearing a white nightgown as she has sex with Tom for the first time.
* VirginSacrifice: One of the most important requirements for the voodoo sacrifice rituals to work is having a virgin woman be used for the sacrifice.
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* CureForCancer: The zombies were created during an attempt to find this.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Dr. Bladeau, creator of the zombies, saves Tom and his daughter from his boss, and helps blow the entire operation to Hell, but is mortally wounded in the process.]]

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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Dr. Bladeau, Biladeau, creator of the zombies, saves Tom and his daughter from his boss, and helps blow the entire operation to Hell, but is mortally wounded in the process.]]
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[[quoteright:183:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/i_eat_your_skin.jpg]]

'''''I Eat Your Skin''''' is a 1970 American SciFiHorror JungleOpera film.

Tom Harris is an author who hasn't submitted anything in several months. To get his creative juices flowing, his agent sends him to a Caribbean island known for voodoo and beautiful women. As Tom explores the island, he discovers something far more interesting. A voodoo cult is experimenting on the natives, scheming to make them into a zombie army to TakeOverTheWorld!

It's best known for being released as a double feature with ''Film/IDrinkYourBlood''.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Charles Bentley]], master of the zombie hordes.
* CureForCancer: The zombies were created during an attempt to find this.
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* FanDisservice: The film opens with an extended sequence of a bikini-clad woman dancing seductively and then subsequently being murdered by a zombie.
* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath
* HollywoodVoodoo: The BigBad puts on a mask and convinces the local natives to start a HumanSacrifice happy voodoo cult, with his zombies as their enforcers.
* MostWritersAreWriters: Tom Harris is a writer of adventure novels. In fact, he only got into the mess he did because his agent sent him to the island to gain inspiration for a new book.
* NonIndicativeName: Nobody's skin gets eaten.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: These are bug-eyed men mind-controlled by irradiated snake venom.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Dr. Bladeau, creator of the zombies, saves Tom and his daughter from his boss, and helps blow the entire operation to Hell, but is mortally wounded in the process.]]
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