Product Description

Dr. Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is the only survivor of a devastating world-wide plague due to a mysterious immunity he acquired to the bacterium while working in Central America years ago. He is all alone now...or so it seems. As night falls plague victims begin to leave their graves part of a hellish undead army that's thirsting for bloodSystem Requirements:Run time: 87 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY/END OF THE WORLD Rating: NR UPC: 027616097217 Manufacturer No: M109721

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4231 in DVD
• Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
• Released on: 2007-12-04
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Black & White, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Italian
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

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Vincent Price gives an atypically restrained performance as the sole survivor of a worldwide plague that revives its victims as bloodthirsty vampires. During the day, he canvasses his abandoned hometown, tracking down and stalking his former friends and neighbors, always making sure to return before nightfall, when the dead rise to assault his fortified house. Hope arrives in the form of an apparently normal young woman (Franca Bettoia), but her agenda proves to be even more sinister than that of the vampires.

Based on the 1954 novel by coscripter Matheson (whose displeasure with the final product spurred the use of a pseudonym), this Italian-made production is best known for its influence on George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. The similarities between the two films go beyond the presence of shuffling zombies and housebound heroes; both feature taboo-breaking scenes of interfamilial murder, and both end on bleak, dystopian notes. While The Last Man on Earth lacks the political and darkly satirical shadings (and graphic gore) that make Night of the Living Dead a more memorable experience, the combination of Bava-esque Gothic atmosphere and bleak, documentary-style camerawork by directors Ragona and Salkow (the brother of Price's agent Lester Salkow) lend themselves to moments of pure frisson that compare laudably to Romero's film. Matheson's novel also provided the source material for the awkward 1971 Charlton Heston vehicle The Omega Man. A planned third version, helmed by Ridley Scott and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, was shut down in its earliest stages due to skyrocketing budget costs. --Paul Gaita

Customer Reviews

The Best Version
This movie is B&W, old and with almost no special effect, but is the most close from the novel. The Omega Man is more distant but still pass. The movie with Will Smith uses only the name and concept. The Last Man on Earth shows us the Robert Morgan's (Neville in the novel) fight to maintain his reason, in a boring world, alone, except for mindless vampires. It is a Hate It or Love It type movie. If you want to see a history close to the Novel in a movie were the actor performance need to compensate the lack of special effects and were the point is the Psychological pressing in the last man on Earth, ok, you will like it. If you want gunshots, high-speed cars, fights, explosions, special effects ever if far from the original story, you will hate it.

very enjoyable
I'm one of those rare people who loved Richard Mattheson's novel and loved the movie with Will Smith. This movie version is much closer to the book, but not exactly so. You still have the wearying feeling of what life is like in this new world. The different chores you have to do everyday just to stay alive. I thought Vincent Price did a pretty good job and I loved the inclusion of Ben pounding on the walls. Very enjoyable.

Vincent is legend
Marvellous early version of the movie that was to be remade as "The Omega Man" and later under the original book title "I Am Legend". Dark & well made, sticks quite closely to Richard Matheson's book.

Black & white filming augments the early special effects/makeup.

A must see for all who saw "I Am Legend", also for fans of Stephen King, as Richard Matheson is King's biggest influence.