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(UPGRADED 5/28/25)
I EAT YOUR SKIN (1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) William Joyce, Heather Hewitt, Dan Stapleton, Walter Coy. A playboy writer and his publisher fly to a remote Caribbean island filled with strange goings-on, hoping for the inspiration to a new book. There they find a mad scientist trying to perfect a cancer cure using snake venom. Inside his lab he zaps the venom with radiation before injecting it into the natives, which of course turns them into raving zombies. There are scientifically-induced zombies running all over the island. The men-into-zombies transformation scenes are really pretty cool. Naturally there’s a secret plot to create a zombie army to overrun the world. The “flare-gun” scene is a bit of a jolt. Hewitt is gorgeous, and Joyce does a pretty good job as the hero. Lots of brassy, schlocky ‘60s music helps set the mood. Bikini-clad beauties pop up everywhere. It just doesn’t get any better than this. From the man who gave us Horror at Party Beach. 35mm.
THE MONSTER FROM THE SURF (1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Jon Hall, Sue Casey, Arnold Lessing, Elaine DuPont, Read Morgan. Teens are slain on the beach by a big, hulking monster from an ocean cave. This is truly one of the goofiest monster movies you'll ever see with one of the most wacky-looking monsters of all time. Hall, who was a fine actor at one time, is a bit pathetic in spots: "Is there nothing left!" Kind of sad, yet it all sort of works in a ludicrously lovable way and the film turns out to be an enjoyable grade-Z drive-in movie romp. Lots of good-looking girls in bikinis. AKA Beach Gals & the Monster. From a nice 35mm print.
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