The Last Man on Earth (1964)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

Ubaldo Ragona

Escritores:

Richard Matheson (novel) and
William F. Leicester (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

8 marzo 1964 (USA)

Género:

Horror | Ciencia-Ficción | Drama

Frase comercial:

By night they leave their graves, crawling, shambling, through empty streets, whimpering, pleading, begging for his blood!

Plot:

Dr. Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is the only survivor of a devastating world-wide plague due to a mysterious...

Plot Keywords:

Plague | Night | Survivor | Disease | Scientist

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Vincent Price is Legend!!

Reparto

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

También conocida como:

L'ultimo uomo della terra (Italy) (dubbed version)
Naked Terror
Night People
The Night Creatures
Vento di morte
Wind of Death

Duración:

86 min

País:

USA | Italy

Idioma:

Inglés | Italiano

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

UK:PG (2007) | UK:X (1966) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Australia:PG | Canada:PG (Ontario) | USA:Unrated

Locaciones de Filmación:

E.U.R., Rome, Lazio, Italy

Compañía:

Associated Producers (API)

Trivialidades:

The script was written in part by Richard Matheson, but he was dissatisfied with the result and was therefore credited as Logan Swanson.

Errores:

Boquete en la Historia: When Morgan returns home at night and is fighting the vampires he opens his unlocked front door and enters. The marauding vampires should have been able to enter the home, before his arrival, with the door unlocked.

Citas:

[first lines]
Robert Morgan: Another day to live through. Better get started.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Silent Hill (2006)

Vincent Price is Legend!!

I'm not sure why this film is as underrated as it is. This is an amazing, depressing and in many ways brilliant film based on the Richard Matheson classic novel "I Am Legend". Vincent Price effectively conveys the terror and despair of being the last living man on an Earth that is now overrun with vampires and/or zombies. The depiction of Price's day to day bleak existence is a moving and powerful thing to behold and the continual menace of the hordes of zombies is creepy in the same way as was later depicted in "Night of the Living Dead". In fact, as noted by others here, one can not watch the scenes where the zombies lay siege to Price's boarded up house and attack his car without recognizing how close these scenes would later be copied by George Romero in his classic zombie films. If you are a fan of horror film history or just looking for a classic and unique film with an interesting story, track down this lost gem.