The Omega Man (1971)

Directed by

Boris Sagal

Genre

drama film, action film, horror film, science fiction film, disaster film, dystopian film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 622 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is the last healthy survivor after a biological war kills most people. He lives alone in Los Angeles and fights a group of mutant plague victims who want to destroy him.

bleaktenselonelyretro-futuristicaction-packedmelancholicgrittydated

What happens

The Omega Man (stylized as The Ωmega Man) is a 1971 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston as a survivor of a pandemic. It was written by John William Corrington and Joyce Hooper Corrington, based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. The film's producer, Walter Seltzer, went on to work with Heston again in the dystopian science-fiction film Soylent Green in 1973. The Omega Man is the second adaptation of Matheson's novel. The first was The Last Man on Earth (1964), which starred Vincent Price. A third adaptation, I Am Legend, starring Will Smith, was released in 2007, and appropriated this film's tagline. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• The Deadly Hunt (1971)
• King of the Hill (1971)
• Willard (1971)
• The Terror Within II (1991)
• The Andromeda Strain (1971)
• Бог Курт (1971)