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In a post-epidemic nightmare world, scientist Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is the only man immune to the plague which has transformed the entire population of the Earth into vampire-like creatures. H... read more read more...e becomes the monster slayer that vampire-society fears. Curing one of them, Ruth (Franca Bettoja), with a transfusion of his blood gives him hope for the future. It is a short future, however, since the other vampires quickly find and kill him. This dark tale, based on Richard Matheson's even darker novel "I Am Legend," was later remade as The Omega Man with Charlton Heston in the Vincent Price role. ~ Lucinda Ramsey, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 26 min.

Directed by: Ubaldo Ragona

Release Date: March 8, 1964

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DVD Release Date: March 4, 2003

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  • fb100002384654145
    May 26, 2012
    fb100002384654145
    The first adaptation of Richard Matheson's horror novel "I Am Legend", this schlocky flick benefits greatly from Vincent Price's performance. Although he isn't cut out for physical acting, Price skillfully portrays the awful effects of loneliness and the challenges of finding th... read moree will to live in a world that has fallen to vampiric zombies. Despite it's obviously low budget, the film does a good job in setting up the mood of hopelessness. It does such a good job at executing somber atmosphere and mood that some of it's narrative shortcomings can be forgiven. If you can ignore the crude production value, "The Last Man on Earth" delivers as a somber post-apocalyptic mood piece.
  • blkbomb
    October 24, 2011
    blkbomb
    Robert Morgan: You're freaks, all of you! All of you, freaks, mutations! 

    "Do you dare to imagine what it would be like to be... the last man on earth... or the last woman?"

    Now that I have seen all three of the movies based on the I Am Legend story; I can't say I really like a... read moreny of them a lot. I think The Omega Man and I Am Legend are both decent, if really flawed films. As for The Last Man on Earth; I didn't like it at all. There wasn't a moment while watching it where I was either appreciating what I was seeing or enjoying what I was seeing. There's a fine line between this story being suspenseful or just plain boring, and this film hit on the boring side.

    If I can say one good thing about it, it is that it does have a strong presence from Vincent Price. But the other two have stars in this role as well, with Charlton Heston in The Omega Man and Will Smith in I Am Legend. Vincent Price was never a bad guy to put in a movie back in the 50's and 60's. But his presence alone isn't enough to save an overall bad movie. 

    Maybe had I watched it when it first came out back in the 60's, I would have enjoyed it more. Watching it now, it is really easy to see that it just hasn't aged well. The little family flashback to before the disease was so bad. Just horrible acting by everyone not named Vincent Price. The score was bad and really annoying. I just couldn't get into this movie at all. I'm glad I watched it, just because I like Vincent Price, but I don't envision myself ever watching it again.
  • ajv2688
    December 2, 2010
    ajv2688
    If you're a huge fan of Price, like me, you will want to see this movie. Not only is he the main character, but he's the only character for most of the movie since he's the last man on Earth. This is the first adaptation of the I Am Legend story, and my favourite because of Pri... read morece's great performance and the cool style of the film. I love this movie, and I recommend seeing it. If Vincent Price is the last man on Earth, I want to be the last woman on Earth! :)
  • flixsterman
    November 14, 2009
    flixsterman
    Groundbreaking horror that opened the door for films like Night of the Living Dead.
  • DrZeek
    May 14, 2009
    DrZeek
    Robert Morgan: [filling up a bag with stakes] How many more of these will I have to make before they're all destroyed? They want my blood. Their lives are mine. I still get squeamish.

    A quality film version of Richard Matheson's novel, I Am Legend. Probably the closest to the a... read morectual source material, more so than the Will Smith version and the Charlton Heston version for sure.

    Vincent Price (an awkward casting choice, but who doesn't love him anyway) stars as the Last living human on earth. After the world has been devastated by a plague, Dr. Robert Morgan (Price) spends the days searching around town for supplies and killing the remaining inhabitants of the world, Vampires.

    Robert Morgan: I can't afford the luxury of anger. Anger can make me vulnerable. It can destroy my reason and reason's the only advantage I have over them.

    There is a lengthy backstory in the film that, despite dragging the film down, explains what has happened, and develops Price's character pretty well. It certainly helps that the films production, shot in black and white, with numerous shots of isolation, provide the film with a decent mood. The way in which this film was handled actually provided inspiration for Romero's Night of the Living Dead.

    There are some campy moments, but this film is still pretty well handled.

    Robert Morgan: You're freaks! I'm a man! The last man...
  • bbcfloridabound
    April 4, 2009
    bbcfloridabound
    A Italian Horror Vincent Price Film. As we work our way through this film, I can see where many of the 2005-2009 movies got there ideas, 28 Days, 28 Week, 30 Days of Nights, and of course I am Legend. My copy of this movie came from the MGM Midnite Movies Collection, and the spec... read moreial features has a excellent interview with the writer of I am Legend. In this movie I am still wondering if we are chasing Zombies or Vampires. A plague inhabits the earth and people come down with a fever, then go blind and then die, Unless the bodies are burned they return. This is one of the few movies that the zombies talk and know who they are after, got kind of tired of hearing Morgan Open Up Morgan. This is not the best Vince Price movie but I am sure he has done worse. I can only give it 3 stars. But am glad its in my collection.
  • FilmFanatik
    September 5, 2008
    FilmFanatik
    Fantastic adaptation of the original novel, the first one got it all right while the rest got it wrong.
  • pier007
    March 20, 2008
    pier007
    The best adaptation of Matheson's apocalyptic novel. Vincent Price is as good as always, this time in a more contained role. the overall mood is effective, austere and creepy.
  • matertenebraum
    December 20, 2007
    matertenebraum
    Richard Matheson's seminal sci-fi horror novel, "I Am Legend", published in 1954, is first and foremost, a character study, and any film producer must come to terms with that, if there is to be a successful adaptation from print to screen. The novel was adapted to screen in 1964 ... read moreas "The Last Man On Earth"; producer Sidney Salkow, hampered by a tiny budget, intuitively did the best he could and came close to pulling it off! What Salkow did was convey the novel's mood, tone, atmosphere and plot in primitive fashion, crudely capturing the gist of the novel - that of one man, Robert Neville's confrontation with a horrendous existential dilemma - to be, himself, that is; or not to be, a plague- induced vampiric shell. While "TLMOE" was not entirely successful in translation, especially in the ending - co-scripter Matheson ultimately distanced himself from the final product - it nevertheless, clearly outshines a later, technically superior 1971 remake, "The Omega Man" in the aforementioned aspects. "The Omega Man", taken on it's own, is an interesting, entertaining film; but when referenced against the novel, falls flat on it's face. (Matheson himself stated that that film and his novel are two completely different animals.) In contrast, "TLMOE" fares much better when referenced: it shows that Morgan's (Neville's) battle is more with reactions within himself than with the vampires as a physical threat per se, as it becomes obvious that the vampires are slow-moving, dull-minded individually, and disorganized as a group, each instinctively and savagely interested only in HIS blood. Besides the perpetually nightmarish nuisance of the vampires, who have a collectively demoralizing effect on him, Morgan (Neville) must fight against the horror generated by the desolation and doom of a post-apocalyptic world, against the loneliness of being the last human on earth and against the agony of tragically losing his wife and daughter to the plague. In the final analysis, "The Last Man On Earth" could be likened to a series of crude, but brilliant brush-strokes of feeling-tones. As such it fully deserves cult-classic status.
  • dhetteix
    August 11, 2007
    dhetteix
    A fantastic rendition of Matheson's "I Am Legend." Vincent Price portrays his character with a brilliant complexity. The cinematography and film shows a fair degree of age, but the plot and acting stand up impressively.

    Perhaps the best "zombie" or "vampire" film ever made, mana... read moreging to imbue a level of grace and thoughtfulness that no post-Romero film has pulled off since.

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Critic Reviews

Jonathan Rosenbaum
December 10, 2007
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

Some would consider this version better than the 1971 remake with Charlton Heston, The Omega Man, but that isn't much of an achievement. Full Review

Steve Biodrowski
July 14, 2008
Steve Biodrowski, ESplatter

This first-ever adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend is easily the most faithful of the three; unfortunately, it is also the least entertaining. Full Review

Stefan Birgir Stefansson
March 11, 2008
Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is

price is grand

Pablo Villaca
January 4, 2008
Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena

Price retrata com talento a angústia e o cansaço de seu personagem, mas os vampiros ridiculamente estúpidos e a dublagem capenga boicotam seus esforços.

Tim Brayton
December 19, 2007
Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

Where the film fails as a narrative - and it fails rather mightily in places - it succeeds as a mood piece. Full Review

Jerry Renshaw
December 10, 2007
Jerry Renshaw, Austin Chronicle

A chilling study of loneliness and an acting tour de force for Price as the last survivor of a dead race, and not exactly the feel-good movie of 1964. Full Review

December 10, 2007
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Price plays a scientist who is the last survivor on Earth after a plague has turned the rest of the population into vampires. Full Review

James O'Ehley
November 6, 2007
James O'Ehley, Sci-Fi Movie Page

Worth seeing for fans of older genre movies, even though the film's pacing is often a bit too languid for its own good. Full Review

Phil Hall
April 20, 2006
Phil Hall, Film Threat

The best Vincent Price movie. Full Review

Emanuel Levy
July 22, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

One of Vincent Price most peculiar films, made in Italy, with poor dubbing of the Italian actors and cheesy special effects

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