The Last Man on Earth (1964)

Directed by

Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow

Genre

drama film, independent film, vampire film in Italy, post-apocalyptic film, dystopian film, zombie film

Country

Italy, United States

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

VM14

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 489 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Robert Morgan is the only survivor of a plague that turned everyone else into vampire-like creatures. He spends his days hunting the infected and his nights barricaded in his house, but his lonely routine is disrupted when he encounters another living person.

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What happens

The Last Man on Earth (Italian: L'ultimo uomo della Terra) is a 1964 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. The film was produced by Robert L. Lippert and directed by Sidney Salkow and Ubaldo Ragona, and stars Vincent Price and Franca Bettoia. The screenplay was written in part by Matheson, but he was dissatisfied with the result and chose to be credited under the alias "Logan Swanson". William Leicester, Furio M. Monetti, and Ubaldo Ragona finished the script. The film was a co-production between the United States and Italy, and was filmed on location in Rome. It was released in the United States by American International Pictures. In the 1980s, the film entered the public domain. The Last Man on Earth is the first of three adaptations of Matheson's novel, followed by The Omega Man (1971) and I Am Legend (2007). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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