The Last Man on Earth
by Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow
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Actor: Emma Danieli, Franca Bettoia, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Umberto Raho, Vincent PriceDirector: Sidney Salkow, Ubaldo Ragona
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-04
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of The Last Man on Earth
DVD Review: "Whatever you do, don't call a doctor!"
Summary: 3 Stars
This is really a fun zombie movie (even though some refer to them as vampires, they are really not). You're not going to find yourself on the edge of your seat, worried that zombies are going to attack and kill the stars of the movie. Instead, These creatures are mellow and lethargic. In fact, they are not even all that scary.
The movie opens as Price seems to be the only "man" left on Earth. He searches out zombies by day and returns to his fortified home at night. He has a flashback that brings us up to date on how things became they way they are. A strange virus seems to infected everyone and the world's population is quickly dying. If the bodies are not burned, then the dead come back as zombies.
I won't give away the ending but there seems to be an interesting idea brewing that leaves us something to think about. If there is more of them then there are of us, does that switch the roles of good and evil?
While I wouldn't consider this a classic horror movie, it is still a fun movie to watch. Run time is about 90 minutes. Price's maniacal laugh is worth the price of the movie alone.
DVD Review: The most faithful to the source
Summary: 2 Stars
This badly dated film is the most faithful adaptation of "I Am Legend", a short novel written by Richard Matheson.
But, sadly, that does not make it the best. It does, however, make it more worthwhile than the waste of time with Will Smith, "I Am Legend" from 2007. That movie basically trashed everything good about Matheson's original story in favor of 'been there/done that' zombie nonsense.
"The Last Man On Earth" features a poorly cast Vincent Price (in a downright woeful performance) as the only survivor of a plague that has either killed everyone or turned them into vampires. Price is terrible in this film. He portrays Robert Morgan (Neville in the book) in the most one-dimensional way possible.
In case you are wondering which adaptation is the best, it is "The Omega Man" starring the late great Charlton Heston.
DVD Review: the oldest is still the best!
Summary: 5 Stars
So,I AM LEGEND has finally come out, with its big name star and its big budget and its big computer generated special effects, but when the smoke and hype cleared the fect remains that THE LAST MAN ON EARTH with Vincent Price filmed back in the 1960's in black and white with no virtually no budget and no special effects at all is still the best available adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic Horror/scifi novel.
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH is the story of a single human being and his day to day struggle to survive in a world devasted by a plague that has turned all other living creatures into vampires, while at the same time trying to understand the nature of virus that caused the plague and perhaps bring about a cure. Its far deeper and more complex than the newer film, but like the newer film it deviates from Matheson's novel in its ending by giving us a Christian interpretation of Neville's attempts to save the world with his blood.
The differences between the two films come in showing Neville's dayto day existence, and more impotantly by continuing what the film I AM LEGEND starts with...that viruses mutate. I don't want to give that away.
You should experience it for yourself, its what makes this movie and the novel unique.
I AM LEGEND is a must read. THE LAST MAN ON EARTH is a must see.
DVD Review: Best Available Version-Restored maginficently
Summary: 4 Stars
This review is not on the film itself, because other reviews clearly tell you the synopsis of the film. This review is on the quality of the film itself, The Last man on Earth, starring horror legend Vincent Price. The version I have is a DVD with the title Last Man on Earth at the top in white capitals and Price carrying a body at the bottom, coloured light brown and the top an odd blue. The picture is as good as new, the audio is listenable and very sharp and in all my years of seeing different versions of this film, this is by far the best. It could as well be a collector's edition. Every copy I'vce seen, Price mouths something and half a second later words start being projected, not with this one though.
So, in quality and value for money, get this version of the last man on earth, no other cheap, unrestored or value double or triple pack. This is the one to have. Released by MGM Video/DVD entertainment.
DVD Review: Vincent Price at his best
Summary: 5 Stars
Wonderful movie. Vincent Price at his best. Taken from Richard Matheson's novel "I am legend"- Richard Matheson was the screenwriter for many Roger Corman movies starring Vincent Price too, like The Crow, The Haunted Castle and other ones inspired to Edgar Allan Poe's stories. In this movie, Vincent Price is the last survivor in a world of vampires; his relatives, now vampires too, call him at night and stand outside his house to drink his blood. He is lonely, gloomy, jaded, in his macabre daily routine- waking up, killing vampires in their sleep, burning their corpses. But still he doesnt lose hope and fights, and maybe he will find other survivors.
It's a shame they did such a crappy remake of this masterpiece, and it's a shame that everybody saw "I am legend" and nobody knows the original.
Description of The Last Man on Earth
Vincent Price gives an atypically restrained performance as the sole survivor of a worldwide plague that revives its victims as bloodthirsty vampires. During the day, he canvasses his abandoned hometown, tracking down and stalking his former friends and neighbors, always making sure to return before nightfall, when the dead rise to assault his fortified house. Hope arrives in the form of an apparently normal young woman (Franca Bettoia), but her agenda proves to be even more sinister than that of the vampires.Based on the 1954 novel by coscripter Matheson (whose displeasure with the final product spurred the use of a pseudonym), this Italian-made production is best known for its influence on George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. The similarities between the two films go beyond the presence of shuffling zombies and housebound heroes; both feature taboo-breaking scenes of interfamilial murder, and both end on bleak, dystopian notes. While The Last Man on Earth lacks the political and darkly satirical shadings (and graphic gore) that make Night of the Living Dead a more memorable experience, the combination of Bava-esque Gothic atmosphere and bleak, documentary-style camerawork by directors Ragona and Salkow (the brother of Price's agent Lester Salkow) lend themselves to moments of pure frisson that compare laudably to Romero's film. Matheson's novel also provided the source material for the awkward 1971 Charlton Heston vehicle The Omega Man. A planned third version, helmed by Ridley Scott and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, was shut down in its earliest stages due to skyrocketing budget costs. --Paul Gaita
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