The First Last Man on Earth
With I AM LEGEND looming on the horizon, James Rocchi over at SFGate.com takes a look at the first adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel, 1964’s THE LAST MAN ON EARTH:
…no one’s going to confuse The Last Man on Earth with high art, or even big-budget trash, but in a lot of ways it’s closer to the spirit of Matheson’s novel than The Omega Man, and creepy in a way that The Omega Man, with its over-the-top ’70s touches, isn’t. Shot in stark and grim black and white, The Last Man On Earth begins as Price’s Dr. Robert Morgan wakes up and goes through the rituals of his average day: Putting on the coffee, checking on the boards over the windows, clearing the corpses off the front yard.
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The Last Man on Earth was shot on a shoestring in Italy, but that makes the look of the film that much more compelling — the apartments and supermarkets look familiar but alien, bleakly majestic during Morgan’s solitary daytime excursions and hauntingly chill when he’s chased into the night by a community that wants to eliminate the solitary figure who finds their friends as they sleep and murders them. (The title of the book, I Am Legend, refers to how the monsters view our hero — and, as the book neatly points out, how ‘monster’ is one of those terms that the majority gets to define. …)
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