Last Man on Earth

Pros: Vincent Price
Cons: hmmm nope

Ahh back to my horror classics for a bit... Unlike the other Vincent Price classics I've reviewed, 1964's thriller The Last Man on Earth is based on the novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson rather than Poe. This is a very good adaptation. ...

Pros: Vincent Price, great source material.
Cons: A few problems with the logic, weak action sequences.

How many of us see those movies where the population is whittled down to a pittance and wondered how they’d handle being one of only a handful of survivors in the world? Probably most of us. How many have wondered how they’d handle being the ...

Pros: Classic price fun, in classic black and white.
Cons: A few noticeable gaffs.

Dr. Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is having a bad day. But then every day is a bad day when you’re The Last Man on Earth. And that’s exactly the role fate has bestowed upon Dr. Morgan, who is seemingly the only survivor of a mysterious ...

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I first became aware of this movie through Epinions. I had done a review of Omega Man and decided to read a few of the other reviews, which mentioned Last Man on Earth. Both movies are based on the same novel, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. When I ...

Pros:

Vincent Price, a classic black-and-white film

Cons:

picture quality could be better, continuity issues

I have always admired Vincent Price and his many accomplishments. So when the opportunity arrived to by some of his films on DVD at a terrific price, I grabbed it. One of those movies is "The Last Man on Earth". If the plot sounds familiar, it's ...

Pros: Vincent Price, Adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel -- goes fast. Written by Richard Matheson
Cons: more can be done with it. little too fast.

Back in January of 2008, I saw the Will Smith adaption of the Richard Matheson classic yet but I managed to grab up a copy of the Vincent Price version. There were many chances for me to catch this one online since it is a public domain classic, I will ...

Pros: Creepy story, good performance by Vincent Price
Cons: Poor production values

Stars Vincent Price.

The Last Man on Earth is also known as Naked Terror, The Night Creatures, Night People and Wind of Death.

This film is an Italian made, low-budget thriller about a man, Robert Morgan (Vincent...

Pros: Vincent Price, Good Adaptation Of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend Novel.
Cons: Aging poorly, Some Cuts In Scenes (skipping).

Vincent Price carries all the hopes of humanity on his shoulders when a mysterious vampiric plague wipes out all of humanity . . . but him.

Based upon Richard Matheson's classic vampire tale I Am Legend, The Last Man On Earth is quite a close...

Pros: Vincent Price
Cons: Dubbing problems, performances by supporting cast in flashbacks

For three years, "Robert Morgan" (Vincent Price) has been trying to survive against those infected with a plague which has turned them into vampire-like zombies. It appears that he is somehow immune to the strange affliction.During daylight, he ...

Pros: All.Vincent Price is great.
Cons: None

Starring Vincent Price.
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror.
Black and white.

Is this a movie about vampires? Yes.And the
great Vincent Price is the last man on earth
battling them.He is the last man on earth.

I...

Pros: Vincent Price, a great, bleak story with a few really good twists.
Cons: Nothing comes to mind.

This was the first adaptation of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, starring the legendary Vincent Price. The whole movie is basically split up into three different sections, establishing that the world has been decimated and that Price is the last normal ...

Pros: Good acting by all (including miscast lead), nice Rome locations
Cons: Not exciting enough, more holes than the Omega Man remake, unbelievable story

The Last Man on Earth is the story of Robert Morgan (Vincent Price). A former chemist turned vampire hunter who spends his days killing the sleeping vamps in the aftermath of the deadliest plague ever seen by humankind (the disease caused the walking...

Pros: Vincent Price
Cons: None to think of, that IS rare for me!

Well worth seeing as a classic horror film Vincent Price is at his usual greatness, even if
in a movie not meant to be great in itself.

As a Vincent Price fan I was surprised to realize that I had not seen this film. I truly enjoy
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Pros: Price is extraordinary in the lead; story is compelling, poignant
Cons: Sub-par production values

This review was first posted to Amazon on November 19, 2008: http://www.amazon.com/review/RB1IFC9M4MFAH/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
An uncensored, noncommercial version is available on my blog: http://harkabrazencur.blogspot.com/2008/11/film-review-last-man-on-earth.html

Of the three film adaptations of Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend," this is definitely my favorite. "Last Man" treads lightly on the social implications of Matheson's story to concentrate on heartbreaking personal themes, but there's no denying the incalculable influence that both the book and the film have asserted on filmic realizations of vampires and zombies alike.

Although the performances of the small cast are of mixed quality, Price is - as always - larger than life, his expressions of grief, hopelessness and desperation entirely and bitterly convincing. Of Vincent Price's relatively few heroic roles, this is surely the finest, and he plays it with great dignity. I wouldn't suggest that "The Last Man on Earth" is flawless; the dubbing is often conspicuously bad, many shots are sloppily executed and clumsy editing frequently makes a mess of the movie's continuity. However, these were the commonplace defects of a low-budget horror film in the '60s, and very few films of this sort were ever as chilling or as tragic as this one.

Pros: Good, but I have see better.
Cons: Liked the Richard Matheson book better

It was good as it could have been for those days, yes, but the version The Omega Man with Charlton Heston was much better. I saw the new version with Will Smith last night, and I must admit, even though it was a very good film, I tend to lean toward the older films. I guess I am just an old fashioned type of horror fan. I began to lose interst in horror to some extent back in the 80s with all the splatter craze. Gratuitous violence and special efects do not a movie make.