I EAT YOUR SKIN

Publisher Duncan Fairchild and his wife Coral compel and escort adventure novelist Tom Harris from Miami Beach to remote Voodoo Island in the Caribbean for researching an overdue new novel. After their plane runs out of fuel, Tom takes the controls from pilot Enrico and lands on the beach.

Tom heads to a house he spotted but stops to watch a young woman swim naked in a pond. A zombie appears but disappears after Tom dives in and swims toward it. After he asks a fisherman for help, the zombie attacks them with a machete, decapitating the fisherman. Tom shoots the zombie, to no effect, and it flees when armed men arrive in a Jeep. The leader, Charles Bentley, denies the existence of zombies, stating that the islanders are a simple people who cannot comprehend that a man could be "deranged of mind, a homicidal maniac."

Back at the plane, Duncan, Coral and Enrico are frightened by menacing islanders, but Charles orders them to secure the plane and introduces himself as the overseer of Voodoo Island. At Charles' home, Tom asks the housekeeper about voodoo drums and human sacrifice, but she feigns ignorance, as she is a member of the voodoo cult. Before dinner that night, Tom meets the woman he saw swimming: Janine Biladeau, the daughter of scientist Dr. Augustus Biladeau. Tom tells the group of the zombie attack and says he has heard the dead walk the island, but Augustus dismisses it, saying that the islanders use a plant-based narcotic that can cause physical and mental problems.

Tom and Janine go for a walk and are attacked by zombies, who attempt to abduct Janine. Charles tells Tom that Janine risks being sacrificed because she is a blonde virgin. Tom asks Janine to leave the island with him and the others the next day, but she refuses to leave her father behind. Meanwhile, the cult performs a ceremony, presided over by the masked Papa Neybo.

The next morning, Tom tells Duncan to gather everyone at the plane to escape. Janine has decided to go with them and to ask Augustus to leave as well. She takes Tom to Augustus's lab, but her friend Fernando warns them that she will be kidnapped and sacrificed. Augustus is in his lab experimenting with irradiated snake venom, which he hopes will cure cancer. He injects a man with it, who immediately transforms into a zombie. Augustus asks Tom to take Janine away, saying it's too late for him to leave, as zombies attack the lab.

Tom, Duncan and Enrico prepare for take-off as zombies grab Janine and Coral. As Enrico starts the plane, a zombie walks into its spinning propeller, carrying a box of explosives. The blast kills Enrico, destroying the airplane and zombie. Tom and Duncan dive into the sea to escape and encounter a motorboat. They then disguise themselves as voodoo cultists and go to the ceremony to save Janine. Unbeknownst to them, Augustus is watching, and just as Neybo is about to behead Janine, Augustus throws a knife, killing Neybo and revealing him to be Charles.

Tom, Janine, Coral, Duncan and Augustus race back to the lab, pursued by cultists and zombies. Augustus rigs his equipment so that it will blow up Voodoo Island, ending Charles's plan to take over the world with his zombie army. As they escape by boat, two cultists clamber aboard and stab Augustus before they are killed. Dying, Augustus explains that the zombies are the accidental result of his experiments, and when Charles discovered this, he hatched his scheme for world conquest. Augustus dies, the island explodes and the others sail back to Miami Beach.