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The Omega Man (1971)

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Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling themselves "The Family". The plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as homicidally psychotic. They believe science and technology to be the cause of the war and their punishment, and Neville, as the last symbol of science, the old world, and a "user of the wheel", must die. Neville, using electricity, machinery, and science attempts to hold them at bay. Written by Roald E. Peterson III {slz13@cc.usu.edu}

In the year 1977, two years after biological warfare between the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union wiped out almost the entire human population, as revealed through flashback newsreel footage. Also in flashback, we learn that at the time Army Colonel Robert Neville-a military scientist-had injected himself with an experimental vaccine for the disease which rendered him immune. In Los Angeles, a group of several hundred resistant albinos calling themselves "The Family" have survived the plague. The plague has turned them into violent, nocturnal, light-sensitive albino mutants, and the disease has affected their minds with psychosis and "delusions of grandeur". Neville would like to destroy the Family. As a former military officer, he is a hardened, realistic person who lives in a fortified apartment with an arsenal of weapons including a Smith & Wesson M76 submachine gun, an infrared-equipped Browning Automatic Rifle and satchel charges. But at night, Neville barricades himself in his apartment as The Family rages outside, taunting him by burning books and other objects of science and culture. The use of powerful searchlights and weapons deters The Family's raids on Neville's home. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

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