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Based on the chilling Richard Matheson science fiction Classic "I am Legend" and later remade as "The Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston. This classic features Vincent Price as scientist Robert Morgan in a post apocalyptic nightmare world. The world has been consumed by a ravenous plague that has transformed humanity into a race of bloodthirsty vampires. Only Morgan proves immune, and becomes the solitary vampire slayer.
This movie is part of the collection: Sci-Fi / Horror
Director: Ubaldo Ragona
Audio/Visual: Mono, Black and White
Keywords: horror; Sci-Fi; Drama
Contact Information: http://shortfilms.tk/
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
![[4.0 out of 5 stars]](/images/star.png "[4.0 out of 5 stars]")
Reviewer: MikeManners - - July 3, 2009
Subject: Cult Classic that will never get old!!!
That fact that this was a limited budget production and filmed in 1963 Rome makes this film all the more charming and enjoyable to watch. The online reviews all say that "The Last Man On Earth" has become THE Cult Classic of its genre. George Romero confessed that this film was the inspiration for his "Night of the Living Dead".
Vincent Price vs Will Smith?
I agree with many of you below. Vincent Price MADE this film. Will Smith is not an actor in any way comparable to Price. The fat cat producers relied upon Smith's great abilities to save their bad bad movie. IT did not work....Ego and Hype are not enough to save a motion picture ill conceived.
"The Last Man on Earth" will be treasured LONG after Smith's bomb is consigned to the dust bin of History.
Reviewer: Robotech_Master - - May 13, 2009
Subject: Find it for half of $5 in Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart has the anamorphic widescreen version in a two-pack with Ray Milland's Panic in Year Zero for $5 right now. Includes a nice featurette interview with Matheson.
Reviewer: macnoodle - - May 3, 2009
Subject: A true classic gem!!!
A brilliant depiction of "I am Legend", and in many respects, better than the latest Wil Smith version.
Vincent Price was a master at his craft.
Well worth the download and watch; good quality video and audio!!!
Now if someone could just upload Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" starring a diabolical Vincent Price !!!
Reviewer: hillbilly&possums - - April 16, 2009
Subject: last man
I loved this movie, alot better than will smith verson
Reviewer: Meat Trademark - - April 12, 2009
Subject: thank you hotdoglives!
Widescreen or fullframe is why I scanned these reviews. Thanks for letting us know it's not wide. This movie was shot 2.35:1 and fullframe loses about half the picture. I'll look elsewhere. THANK YOU!
Reviewer: Albert Schlef - - March 4, 2009
Subject: Nice
Nice "atmosphere" this movie has.
Reviewer: Digital Earl - - January 15, 2009
Subject: $150,000,000
The Will Smith movie cost $150,000,000 to make and it's not as good as this version.
Reviewer: Tammy81760 - - December 17, 2008
Subject: Great Movie!
I bought it on DVD it scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. This movie despite the low budget is a classic as far as I'm concerned. I love horror movies even old ones. Vincent Price is a legend, and makes this film great.
Reviewer: Neo1138 - - December 1, 2008
Subject: I AM LEGEND
Despite it's flaws. It is closest adaptation to the book "I am Legend". It has some creepy moments in it.
Reviewer: falcon815 - - November 8, 2008
Subject: Less is More
This movie is much, much closer to the novel 'I Am Legend' than the recent big budget version with Will Smith.
My only complaint is the low production value. I guess most of the money went to pay Vincent.
I wish one of the cable networks could come out with a version with fresh production work that actually follows the novel faithfully.
Reviewer: flameproof - - October 25, 2008
Subject: Vinnie Price rocks!!!
For all the naysayers who choff this movie:
Check out the scene where Vinnie's character is watching old home movies of his former life and you'll catch a little slice of cinematic history. Vincent Price reveals just how much of a command of his craft he had by going through about 7 different emotions in, like, 30 seconds flat, all written across his face. It's powerful stuff which I'd challenge any modern actor or actress to pull off.
Dated? Duh. Schlocky? Oh, 'ell's yes. But taken in context, it's a gem that would have been much, much dimmer without the presence of Mr. Price and his fine, empathetic interpretation if the material.
Reviewer: Plan 9 - - October 4, 2008
Subject: FIVE STARS!
I Am Legend was published in 1954 and it and The Last Man on Earth were the major influences on vampire and zombie genre films and novels (not the other way around)and both Stephen King and George Romero have been happy to give credit where credit is due.
No doubt The Last Man on Earth would have been an even better film had Matheson's original screenplay not been revised by others, but it still has much of the book's feel and power, and (perhaps sadly, considering the huge budget alloted the Will Smith vehicle) is still the very best of the film adaptations.
Reviewer: lilrayray69 - - October 2, 2008
Subject: Great!
@ Sbeeson...You never read the book I take it? In the book the vampires (yes they ARE vampires) CAN talk and DO know the main character. These ideas weren't thrown in the movie because of some vampire craze of the time period. The author of the book wrote the screenplay for this movie. This movie of the 3 made based off his book (others being Omega Man and I Am Legend) this one is BY FAR the most accurate to the book.
Great film!
Reviewer: sbeeson - - August 4, 2008
Subject: Barely worth watching
I wouldn't consider myself a classic movie expert, but I do enjoy them and try to maintain an objective opinion. After watching I Am Legend, I thought I'd give this movie a shot. I nearly shut it off multiple times. It's completely terrible. The "vampire" twist on the zombies is uninspired and seems like an afterthought due to the popularity of vampire movies around the time. The fact that the zompires talked at all is an atrocity, but then they were able to recognize Morgan and clearly stated their intent? Unbelievable.
Uninspired adaptation.
Shoddy filmography.
Poor naration.
Terrible acting. (Even the actors playing dead people were bad, see scene where he puts two bodies in the car)
Reviewer: Mishatoo - - May 4, 2008
Subject: The Last Man In The Theater
I watched "I Am Legend" with Will Smith and remembered the story from a movie that used to be on late night "Thriller Theater" Saturday nights at 11pm. After the Will Smith "thing" the original was by far more effective and probably a whole less inexpensive. Vincent Price was an actor, Smith is a joke!
Reviewer: SpiceNinja - - February 11, 2008
Subject: Great movie
The film has a lot of continuity errors and some questionable acting but the atmosphere and story make it a film worth seeing.
Reviewer: Gracey - - January 4, 2008
Subject: Awesome!
I like this movie so much, I actually bought the DVD to keep it.
Reviewer: Chad Sexington - - December 27, 2007
Subject: Truest Adaptation To Date
While this movie has it's flaws, it's more similar to the original novella than the other two movie versions. "Omega Man" and the latest "I Am Legend" focus too much on action and seem less timeless.
The basic plot line has become a blueprint for the zombie genre and the original book belongs right next to Bram Stokers "Dracula" in relation to it's contribution to vampire lore.
Reviewer: FortisBlitz - - September 23, 2007
Subject: Last Man
Ahhh, this brings back the drive in theater memories when the pace of life was much slower and it didn't take much to entertain the youth. A bucket of popcorn, Coke, hot dogs, your girl friend and a scary movie as an excuse to hold her tight when she was frightened. No blood and no gore was needed to make this movie. You used your imagination much more than you have too now. Dismembered bodies, flying blood and unnecessary sex scenes are needed to sell an audience today. Such a shame. I enjoyed this flick and thank you for posting it.
Reviewer: scatt - - September 22, 2007
Subject: great scenes of empty streets...
I saw this film when it was first released in a movie theatre in the "Combat Zone" of Boston. I should have been attending classes at Boston University... but I spent a lot of time watching foreign horror films in the zone. Horror films played during the day and "adult" films at night. The Last Man on Earth was a bit scary, but most of all I was impressed with the empty city streets scenes - they must have been filmed in the early morning! Anyway, it is worth seeing if you haven't seen it before. Much better than the remake Omega Man - but then I never cared much for Heston - accept in Touch of Evil and there he was the least impressive of all the actors...
Reviewer: Jezebel25 - - July 28, 2007
Subject: Not bad
Pretty interesting movie. My first thought when I was downloading this film was, "Now how are they going to make what is, essentially, a one-man film interesting? There's hardly going to be any dialogue." But, it's actually pretty entertaining.
Reviewer: Vickie K. - - July 3, 2007
Subject: twainbough - You are mistaken
Reviewer: twainbough - - June 19, 2007
Subject: Spoilers - Complete Movie Review and Story
You stated that both The Last Man on Earth and The Omega Man ended the same... both men die and leave the woman they love to carry on the human race... Vincent Price's character did not love Ruth, he longed for his dead wife Virginia... so I'm not sure what you meant by that statement.
I loved this movie and thought it was 100 times better than The Omega Man. I think The Omega Man was "silly" and "ridiculous" at times. The Last Man on Earth is by far the better of the two.
I look forward to Will Smith's version I Am Legend, but fear it will not hold as true to the original storyline as this movie did.
Reviewer: Marchhaire - - June 25, 2007
Subject: the "Price" is right
Vincent Price as a vampire hunter alone with his bizzare inner monolouge does it get any better?
Reviewer: twainbough - - June 19, 2007
Subject: Spoilers - Complete Movie Review and Story
Release Date: 8 March 1964 (USA)
Tagline:
By night they leave their graves, crawling, shambling, through empty streets, whimpering, pleading, begging for his blood!
Vincent Price ... Dr. Robert Morgan
Franca Bettoia ... Ruth Collins
Emma Danieli ... Virginia Morgan
Giacomo Rossi-Stuart ... Ben Cortman
Umberto Raho ... Dr. Mercer
Christi Courtland ... Kathy Morgan
Antonio Corevi ... Governor (as Tony Corevi)
Ettore Ribotta ... TV Reporter (as Hector Ribotta)
Rolando De Rossi
Runtime: 86 min
The Sun Sets.
The buildings are empty.
The lands are untended.
There are no sounds in the city, save for a back-drop of music fitting empty apartments, street-lamps unlit, and cars unmoving.
Cars have crashed. Over-passes lay in ruins. Bodys lie in the streets, perhaps for years, unmoving.
Bodies. More bodies. Bodies everwhere.
A sign in a church says The End Has Come.
However, in one house the lawn is kept. The flowers are in full bloom. There are no weeds. There is one man, not unmoved for eons, but still filled with life. The man is Vincent Price.
American International Pictures presents The Last Man on Earth.
December 1965. All of 1966. All of 1967. Much of 1968 has passed. The days on the calenders X'd out like a prisoner counting down the days to his own execution. A solitary man, talking to himself, locking his door against an unknown world. The scent of garlic runs foul everywhere the eye can see. There is no need to dress up this day. Nor, any day for that matter. For there is no place to go, nobody to meet, only the job that lay ahead to keep a lone man busy.
Check the generator. Pour in the fuel. Keep the lights lit at all cost.
Another body. Freshly dead, not 3 years dead. It just died hours ago. And more, more more, freshly dead lay around the lone mans house.
Decisions to be made. Coffee, or a smoothie? Java or sugar? The first of many chocies to be made this day. Either way it goes, it shall have booze in it.
A check of the radio. Just like yesterday. Just like tomorrow. Nothing but static.
Mirrors are still up, but cracked. Must get more mirrros.
Garlic lost it's oder. Must get more garlic. The worse the smell, the better.
Breakfast consists of coffee and orange juice. Hardly enough to keep a man going, but enough when you are the final man on the planet.
The mans temper flairs. However, he knows he must keep his cool. It's the only thing that keeps him alive. Reason must prevail. So, it's back to work. A check of the chart to see where he must go to search. Sharpening the stake is a must. Search and kill, the credo of the day. The credo of every day. Must search for THEM. Must beware of THEM. Must keep conscious that THEY are around every corner.
Time to pick up the bodies, put them in the trunk, and take them to the pit. Why? What does it matter? Where is this mysterious pit? What does it do? Why take the bodies there? Why fill a car with corpses in a world filled with them on every corner? The mystery deepens.
Must get more gas. The world, as small as it is, runs on more gas. Still, must have fuel.
The pit. An un-ending inferno. As dry and dusty as hell itself. The fuel for the pit, anything thrown into it. Corprses mostly. But who knows what else. When a living soul needs a gas mask to approach it, and his own fuel can to keep the fire going, the pit must be filled with the foulest of fuels imaginable to keep a fire the size of the grand canyon going.
A quick stop at the freezer. The produce is long since spoiled, however what is in the freezer is still fresh as new. The soul thing kept in the freezer? Garlic. Lots of garlic. A great deal of garlic. Enough to last the most crazed pizza lover a life-time.
More bodies. More mirrors. More garlic. A narcisist never had it so good. A whole world of mirrors to choose from, and never to be without ones own face, or own breath. What a wonderful world it is to live in.
And the search continues. Who will we find today? The living or the dead? Mostly, the dead. However the freshly sharpened stake goes to good use, as the living dead are found in small abundance. Like the old dead, they too are thrown into the pit.
As the sun closes the day once more, and after countless mercy killings, it's back home for Vincent. Another day over, and still no breakfast to be had. Nor lunch or dinner. But plenty of coffee. Lots of java, and lots of booze. Oh, let us not forget the garlic and mirrors. Mustn't be without the scent of our own breath.
The sun has set. It is dark. 12 hours of darkness. And so, the horror begins......
Music. Booze. And a mob of the living dead outside. As they break into the house, or attempt to the garlic keeps them out. Can't blame them, it would keep me out too. The mirrors also keep them out. But why? They hate the site of there own faces. I understand that too.
The music plays. The band plays on and on. The bottle goes from full to empty. Accompanying the music the sounds of deranged lunatics outside, trying to break there way into the last home on earth.
As the sun rises the next morning, a scream rings out in the distance. A mornings alarm clock at the end of the world. A scream is the rooster of city life. So was it in the past, and so shall it be in the end of the world.
A hangover isn't pretty, nor is it this morning. As insanity sinks in a little more, the normal routine is given up in favor of mad driving around a heartless, a soul-less city. A trip to the Church is in order today. Salvation is needed very much. Candles are lit, prayers are said in the hopes that God is still listening. When most of his creation has been wiped out in an instant, Vincent must wonder about that.
A coffin. A wife. A wife long dead. 3 years gone. Insanity has sunken to the level of hell in Vincents mind, and he talks to her as if she were still alive. Passing out on her coffin, he sleeps off his hangover. As he awakes, the sun is set. He knows his house is over-run by THEM. They are everywhere. Being out for the first time at night, he gets to see what THEY do at night. They dig up coffins from cemetaries to feast. Not a healthy diet, though it does explain there pale complexions.
Dis-obeying every speed law that use to be in existance, Vincent speeds home to find his home over-run with THEM. Using his car as a massive stake, he runs them all over as he enters his garage. Or tries to . THEY have other plans. In combat, he pulls out his trusty mirror, flashes it the way of THEM and arrives in his house at the cost of one of THERE arms.
A chorus of evil souls rings out, Vincent arrives home, turns on the lights and they scatter as the dust int he wind. Another fight won, though like always, no prize is given.
Tonight is the night, like any other night, for memories. The hangover long gone, it's time for more booze, and home movies. A few stogies smoked, several shots downed, and the feeling is more than mellow. Though insanity seldom takes a break for long, it's these moments that Vincent lives for. A home movie. A circus. Sites of a wife and daughter dead for years. How long before nostalgia gives way to renewed grief? Not long at all. Not with all that booze in his system.
Smiles turn to laughter. The laughter to sobs. Through it all the sound of THEM cracking there way into his house once again. Tonight is just like last night, and the night before, and he knows just like tomorrow and every year after. How did this come to be?
FLASHBACK.
The wife and the daugher. A happier Vincent taking home movies that would be his curse in just a few weeks. Children everywhere. Adults overseeing. The world as it had been for thousands of years, but would only be fore a few more days. Children at play. Adults talking over coffee. Smoking there lungs out, though with this generation lung cancer is something none of them needs to worry about. So they may smoke all they wish with no consequence.
A newspaper article. Disease carried on the wind. Vincent in dis-belief. A scientist that could do something to prevent an epidemic, but refuses because of hubris. It seems fitting that the world should die but he be spared and sent to the hell that he could have prevented. He has seen the germ. He knows what it is. He could investigate, but chooses to live in ignorance. Playing at a birthday party when the world is on the verge of extinction. Through all this however, somewhere deep down, he knows what is coming. He's only afraid he will fail to prevent it if he tries. The consequence? His daughter is one of the first to fall to the massive disease. Hubris is it's own punishment, as Vincent learns quickly.
As his daughter lay in her bedroom tomb, his wife lay in bed in the sexiest of lingerie. Beauty is a fleeting thing, and as beautiful as this woman is, beauty definetally doesn't last long when death is literally in the air. Even in her beautiful gown, the effects of disease begin to take there toll on her.
Death surrounds Vincents house. False platitudes are given, unkept promises are made. Vincent finally goes to work, though way to late. For the end, as the church sign reads, is here.
Vincent works. Finally. Naturally, the work he has done has shown much promise. If only he'd apply himself a little more, his wife and daughter could be saved. However, fear of failure keeps him back, and so more deaths mount up. THE PIT is created to handle the dead. The unending fire.
THE PIT. An air-born virus. Two things that cannot co-exist but are forced to by stupidity. Having plague infested bodies is one thing. Having them in the street is another. Having them burned in open air pits is yet another. The wind shall carry there germ infested ashes over the globe, for we know there is more than one pit to handle the dead. The plague spreads of it's own will. The humans help the plague spread by burning the bodies in the open. The ashses, like the plague, infect more people, causing more dead, causing more PITS, and the cycle continues to the end.
Word is being spread that the dead are coming back to life. The stories are true. They hate sunlight. They love the night. They are vampires, so the stories go.
The last night. The last tv broadcast. The last normal cup of coffee. The TV broadcaster has stated the governor wants all infected people turned over to the government, to be thrown into the pit. ALIVE OR DEAD. Vincents daughter falls into this category. Already blind in the light, she has entered the last stage of the disease. She is the living dead. Vincent resists turning her over, at the cost of his wifes life. At least, that is how it seems.
Cries echo in the street. The neighbors are dead and being carried off. Vincent begins to realize that in a way, this is his fault.
Garlic makes his first appearance. The living dead are around, the garlic keeps them away. The last remaining scientists give themselves over to superstition, all traces of scientific reasoning GONE in an instant.
Vincent, alive and healthy, one of the last few remaining who are both intelligent and undead. ONe of the last few still working on a cure. Though work, he does little. Time is spent wandering around empty laboritories, talking to insane comrades. Trying to make sense of a world gone made. It's him against the world ravaging disease. The odds are not good. Work needs to be done. Vincent doesn't want to do it. The world seems to really be at the end, and it's all Vincents fault. He's the only one working on a cure, the only person who has a clue how to make a cure. Yet, he hesitates on working.
He arrives home to find his daughter gone. Dead. Taken to the pit in front of him. His wife is a zombie. Also infected, she too is insane. A daughters empty bed is all that remains of the life he knew only a week ago. It begins to dawn on him, with the loss of his only child, that he killed his own daughter because of his own incompitance.
He races for the body of his daughter, arriving to late. His daughter is furance fuel. Though Dante never imagined a furance fueled by human bodies. Human suffering, yes, but not disease ridden corpses. Not undead bodies. Not the bodies of the living dead. The furnace is hell. A hell, man-made for the dead and the living. Though soon, those police who are throwing the bodies into the furance will be thrown in themselves. Still alive. And it's all Vincents fault. If he'd worked on his cure for the disease, none of this would be happening.
A night passes. Breakfast is made. His wife advances to the stage of living dead. As she wakes up and discovers her blindness she dies of a heart attack. Scared to death by her own knowledge of her fate. Found out to be blind, she'd be thrown alive into the pit. Being scared to death, she dies on her own terms. The brain is a funny thing. Yes it is.
Day becomes night. A grave is dug. Another day has passed without Vincent working on a cure. A day spent in solitude. A precurser of days to come. A day spent with the dead body of his wife. Definetally a sign of years of death filled holidays to be spent on the verge of sanity. The only man in the world who has the precurser to a cure in the works, and he spends it with his wifes dead body. A body he killed because of his laziness. A day filled with mourning over the death of his daughter. A death he could have prevented. Is it any wonder how the days ends, as the sun sets and the moon rises on the eve of oblivion?
The night is spent like the day, unworking on a cure. Millions die. Vincent goes home, like he will every day for the next three years, and gets drunk. Full bottles empty in hours, a years worth of hangovers will be crammed into the final morning of life on earth. Time that could have been spent working on a cure is wasted in the devils drink. Only God could have mercy on a soul like Vincents, because only God is graceful enough to forgive a man who is responsible for killing millions by inaction. Welcome to hell Vincent, a hell of your own creation.
A sound is heard. It grows louder. It is a voice. It comes from the door. On the other side, Vincents dead wife, come back from the grave he just dug for her. The result? His first mercy killing. Truly this day would present the blueprint for every day that came afterwards.
BACK TO THE PRESENT
A drunk Vincent comes out of his dream state, drunk and in pain at the memory of his wife, and is forced to listen to the living dead outside trash his once lovely home.
The night passes, more booze is downed, and the sun is forced to rise another day on a dead world. No scream wakes Vincent his morning, and he is able to rest. He awakens to find his car in ruins. The day is spent on a replacement. Not a sports car, for those days are over, but a hearse. A new car in town, Vincent arrives home. Not a dead body in sight. But a living dog is seen. Hungry and starving, it gives Vincent the first spot of hope in 3 years. The dog sees Vincent and runs, fearing a fresh competitor for what food remains.
Vincent chases the pooch, only to wind up in a downtown un-opened in years. He runs, she shouts, he screams for the dog, wondering if his mind had finally collapsed and he is truly insane.
Finding the pooch proves to be useless. However, Vincent finds something better. Dead bodies, freshly dead. These bodies are different however. They have been killed, and not by Vincent. The question arises as to who killed them? Why? Are there more survivors?
Back to the radio. No reply but statis. However, the noise does call the poochie back. Vincents first friend in years is a dog. Mans best friend. Even at the end of the world, mans best friend is a dog. A dog in desperate need of a bath. But aren't they all?
Night comes. The pooch is bathed, fed, and treated like royalty. While outside, the moronic zombies thrash at the house once again. However, with his new friend Vincent does something he hasn't done in years. Not get drunk. With a new friend, and the prospect of more survivors, there is hope for teh future.
A thought comes to Vincent, to analyze the dogs blood. The blood proves to be contaminated. The dog is killed. Mans best friend in the end, proves to be so only for a short time. ANother friend made, another friend lost. And yet, even while digging the grave, a ray of hope comes out of the shadows. A woman. Alive. Young. Fresh. Not infected by plague. More than likely knowing that Vincent has killed every living thing around him, the woman runs from Vincent. Eventually, realizing that Vincent couldn't be out in the daylight if he was a member of the last majority on planet Earth, she goes home with him. In one 24 hour period, Vincent has made a friend, lost him, and made another who happens to be a beautiful young woman. Truly God works in mysterious ways.
Another night dawns, coffee is poured, and Vincent has the first chat he's had in three years. However, mistrust has over-taken him, his sense of self preservation kicks in and he goes for the garlic. The woman is infected. Not in the final stages of zombification, but she is infected. Another friend made, another friend lost. Vincent is truly in hell, and the weight of it's creation is on his shoulders. God has placed judgement on Vincent, and he knows it damn well.
Vincent doesn't kill the woman, however he doesn't promise not to. He proposes a blood test to see if the woman is fully infected or not. However, dinner is more important than safety, and Vincent makes yum yums for them both. To no end however, for the woman does not eat. And so, talking resumes.
The reason for Vincents immunity is revealed. A bat-bite from Panama. The bat lived with the disease all it's life. Vincent became immune after years of living with the weaker strain of the virus.
Time comes for the test. The womans blood will be tested for the germ. Vincent offers a possibility of the cure. But to little, to late, once again. The woman shows signs of the late stages of the disease in front of Vincent. It turns out she's already a member of the living dead. However a cure was found, and she has it on her. Distilled blood with vaccine, and she has the cure on her body. Not only that, but so do many, many others. She is but one of many survivors who live normal lives, or as much as can be lived, thanks to this cure. These are the people who have been killing creatures in addition to Vincent.
The truth comes out. The reason for the survivors hiding is transparent. They were affraid of Vincent. Knowing he killed anything without question or cause, simply because it lived, they hid from him. They knew that if they made themselves known to him, even in there half cured state, he would probably kill them. So once again, Vincent is the creator of his own hell. THe only survivors in humanitys future have banded together, but excluded Vincent because of his sinful ways.
The survivors have the cure. Vincent has the cure in his blood. Yet neither could work together for the betterment of man-kind because of Vincents hubris. Once again Vincent has killed without killing. More lives lost because of his stupidity. And then, the worst fact comes out.
Many of the people Vincent threw into the pit were still alive. Half cured, half diseased, but still with hope. He burned them alive. Now, judgement.
The woman pulls a gun, but can't fire it. Judgement is delayed yet again for the most vile man in history. Instead, the woman suffers an attack because Vincent kept her medicine from her. Instead of giving it to her now, he steals it and wanders around his home. Another life lost because of this truly despisable character? Not yet.
Redemption is found, in part, as Vincent combines the vaccine in the cure with his own blood, in hopes it will cure the woman once and for all.
The cure worked. The woman is able to look at her own reflection again. She is able to stand the smell of garlic. Humanity is saved, thanks to Vincent. A little late, but it is saved. Way to go Vincent. Only took the death of virtually everybody on the planet for you to actually get to work.
Adam and Eve, errrr Vincent and his woman talk about the cure and the future, while outside the last vestiges of humanity try to break in. Two versions of humanities future collide in a fright to the finish. One future embellished with life, the other with death. Death steals life as the woman is kidnapped by the living dead. Attacked, bitten and barely alive, the woman keels over as her friends approach to kill Vincent. Death and life combine as three versions of humanity face off.
The living dead.
The half dead.
The two last survivors with anti-body cures in there blood stream.
Guns are raised. The living dead are shot. Vincent hides. Vincent runs. The living dead are finished off. The half dead give chase to Vincent, with his woman calling out for peace. There will be no peace this night. There will be no life. No future. Only death.
A gun is stolen, Vincent is armed. The half dead join the ranks for the many corpses that lay in the street. Vincent breaks into a police station, robs the armory, and escapes into the alleyway. Machine guns are added to the mix, grenades are set off, the final chase for humanities future progresses with violence via arms of the past.
Naturally, all this violence, all the weapons, all the death end in a church. Grenades are thrown. Bullets fly. Somewhere in between Vincent is shot. The last man on earth with the chance to save it was the only man who could have saved it all along. Now, he's dying. His woman lay back at his house, also dying. The only two people with the blood to save man-kind are dying, hunted by those who would most benefit from there existance. This time it's not Vincent who is the threat to humanity by his inaction. Humanity itself is to blame for killing the only man who could save it.
As Vincent crawls through the Church where his wifes body lay, he is surrounded by men, half alive, with guns. His woman arrives, barely living herself. A spear is thrown just as she enters the building. As she reaches him, he dies.
Now, humanities last hope lay in the woman, for the last man on earth is dead.
Very little commentary here. Only that certain scenes, certain props were later re-used in The Omega Man. The ending is identical in that both male leads die, and the women they love carry on the future for the human race.
Reviewer: Justin White - - April 30, 2007
Subject: A little dumb now, but prime in its time.
This movie had me at a little bit of a shocker. I new what the movie was about, (vampires) and I knew who was in it. (Vincent Price) But the ending got me the most. I'm not going to spoil it for you but I will say this, It was a surprise. I liked the move. I didn't have too much of a problem with it. I watched it on the Sony PSP and It looked good. Overall A good movie to watch.
Reviewer: hotdoglives - - August 17, 2006
Subject: Fullscreen!?
Too bad someone uploaded the film in FULLSCREEN, even though the original film is WIDESCREEN. And there is no reason why the file should be 2.4 GB. Search a torrent site; you can get a perfect quality widescreen copy that's only 700 MB.
Reviewer: postunder - - May 20, 2006
Subject: not bad, not good
its produced well, has a godo plot, actign and directign but it just didn't catch me. Might be worth a second try, but it isn't special.
Reviewer: Luvbeinawmn - - April 19, 2006
Subject: Vincent Price..not the last man on earth...
...to do this film. It truly didn't live up to my expectations of a Price movie. It was too repetitive for my liking. Though I did think some of his methods at avoiding the Zombie/Vampire, were ingenious. I suppose it was imaginative for it's time and yet there were other movies more rivoting, in the same time period. This just didn't do it for me. It IS watchable, in that it's a Price film and he does act with his own, inimitable style. He always makes me believe he's a miserable soul. I give it 4 stars only for PRICE.
Reviewer: crywolf23 - - March 14, 2006
Subject: One Of vincent prices best
wow the last man on earth really scared me the first time i watched.Vincent price is great in the lead role and was really cleaver about getting away from trouble before i found out about this place i bought it on dvd with the house on haunted hill(orignal not remake) for a dollar at a sav-a-lot store so if havented watched it check it out and enjoy
Reviewer: Douglas fae Aiberdeen - - January 20, 2006
Subject: Ahead of its time?
This is an interesting and watchable film, albeit no stone classic, and, yes, the Charlton Heston remake is better. What interested me particulary about this film was the extent to which it could maybe just possibly y'never know have influenced George A Romero - not just the zombie/vampires (zompires or vambies?) but also the scenes with the Military, which reminded me of sections in The Crazies and Dawn of the Dead. Price carries the weight of the film well. The closing scenes were intriguing, introducing a theme which I found quite Cronenbergian - you'll see what I mean if you download this enjoyable time-filler.
Douglas
Reviewer: billbarstad - - January 16, 2006
Subject: Watchable
Not a good film, but it's watchable. It's an end-of-the-world melodrama. I've seen and enjoyed Vincent Price horror films since I was a kid. Here he's in one his usual roles as a tormented and isolated soul. He plays the resolute hero hunting down the undead. The origin of these vampires is if a bacterial rather than spiritual nature, and they share many of the characteristics of vampires from popular fiction. We learn in a long flashback of a plague that ravaged the world. This led to the reanimation of those that died of the plague. Action and conflict come at the end of the film, after he meets a seemingly uninfected woman. My favorite of many dumb lines in the poorly written screenplay was, 'Theory is the beginning of a solution.'
This film clearly must have inspired Romero's "Night of the living dead," a much better movie.
Reviewer: LaMarr Bruister - - January 15, 2006
Subject: Great movie; do not download
This download features the heavily cropped 1.24:1 aspect ratio television print, a butchering of the original 2.35:1 aspect ratio version. If you want to see this film the only way it should be seen, spend a couple of extra bucks and buy the MGM DVD release, which also includes "Panic in the Year Zero!" on the other side of the disc.
"The Last Man on Earth," of course, is the Vincent Price horror classic based on the novel "I Am Legend" which also inspired countless other direct and loose adaptations, including the very loosely inspired George A. Romero zombie classic "Night of the Living Dead."
In LMOE, Price plays a scientist trying to find a cure for a deadly virus that has infected most of Europe and is heading towards America. He finds himself the last living man on earth, the rest of the world having been transformed into a race of vampire-like creatures who want him dead.
Now, he must spend his nights closed up in his house with a mirror, a cross and a few cloves of garlic on the front door, and his days searching for the creatures' hide-outs in order to drive stakes through their hearts.
This horror film is brilliant and spooky, and the cinematography is quite excellent, but the only way to properly view the Italian landscapes featured in this film (it is set in America, but shot in Italy), you must NOT view the full-frame version. Purchase a 2.35:1 aspect ratio version of the film, but do not view the fullscreen version.
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