Sunday, August 5, 2007

The Last Man on Earth (1964)

(Unspecifyed city, United States, though filmed in Italy; 1968, flashback to 1965)
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Your probably more familiar with the plot of this movie from Charlton Heston's The Omega Man (1971). An unknown plague scowers the world, killing most, and leaving the rest as zombie/vampires. Vincent Price is the last truly human survivor, a chemist who got his immunity from the bit of an infected bat in Panama, some years before the real crises begins. Price has turned his home into a kind of lose fortress and spends his days searching for needed supplies, visiting his late wife's tomb, and staking vampire people through the heart, and then burning there bodies. Eventually his lonely life is brightened when he meets an only semi-infected women and cures her with his blood, only to hounded by her fellow Semi's who fear him as they fear the Zombies. Enjoyable and low budget. I believe Will Smith will soon appear in another variant of this age old formula entitled I Am Legend.

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