Hell I think it might be better than I Am Legend, despite the talking “vampire zombies”. Vincent Price did a really good job in this one.
It did a lot better job of showing a man going insane from isolation, I also liked the scene where he is trying to find his daughter’s corpse in the burning pile of corpses. And when his wife comes back.
I expected to not like this movie at all(black and white, cheesy) but it wasn’t. In fact it might be one of my favorite zombie apocalypse movies.
I haven’t seen the movie, what didn’t you like about the talking zompires? Their talking was pertinent to the original story.
It just sounded funny the first time I heard them “Morgan…come out…Morgan” maybe it was the tone.
They seem scarier when they are mute.
Oh one question I had was in this adaptation the vampires have found their own cure, that apparently makes them human again with regular injections. After the spy confronts Price about how he has been killing them, a caravan of cured vampires comes with weapons and guns and kills all the uncured vampires around his house. Isn’t this a bit like Hitler scolding someone for genocide?
Can I assume that since you mention the movie *I Am Legend *that you know that they both come from the same source material? *The Last Man On Earth *is a lot more faithful to the book I Am Legend than the other movie was. The Will Smith movie shat on the ending and makes the title meaningless.
The problem is that Price is killing all of them. He is killing the civilized ones too. The infected ones are basicly animals that need to be put down. But Price does not descriminate. He has become the boogeyman that parents tell their children about. He is legend.
And cue the three-way death-match between Will “I Am Legend” Smith, Vincent “The Last Man On Earth” Price, and Charlton “The Omega Man” Heston.
(Er, in their prime, of course; it’d be creepy and disturbing nowadays.)
I know the original, and I’ve now seen the three adaptations, I try to approach them as their own thing. TLMOE didn’t do a good job of making clear the distinction of the vampires.
Well, that’s certainly a low bar to clear.
The Last Man on Earth’s very claustrophobic and atmospheric. I Am Legend is just typical Will Smith bling. Strangely, I can’t remember anything at all about The Omega Man, though I’m sure I’ve seen it. Could it just be forgettable?
Each film is an example (or victim) of its time. My TiVo recorded TLMOE a while back as a suggestion and I watched it. It’s an effective, creepy thriller/vampire movie, but it wouldn’t really impress today’s audiences (even young people). It’s just a bit too ‘MST3K-ish’, IOW low-budget, simplistic, and heavily padded with meandering montage scenes & narration.
The Omega Man is worse, because it’s boilerplate 70s scifi movie. Watching it today you can’t help but notice the ‘hippie vs establishment’ theme, the giant afro-ed black chick, Heston’s ridiculous looking scarf(?), and by that point all the typical ‘end-of-the-world’ cliches.
I actually liked Smith’s I Am Legend, and I’m not much of a fan of him (he just plays himself in every single movie: the egotistical, black, smart-alecky cop/alien hunter/superhero etc.) I liked its ‘less is more’ approach, that he’d spend a lot of time with little to do. I thought they got the abandoned NYC feeling just right. And I have to say I’m glad they changed the ending. Don’t wanna start a GD here, but I can’t help but see the original ending in that context as being nothing more than an ultra-liberal political statement against the US’ war on terror (i.e. that we’re ultimately the bad guys). No thanks…