The Last Man on Earth (aka The Damned Walk at Midnight)

Directed by Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow

United States, Italy • 1964 • 86 mins.

The most faithful adaptation of sci-fi novelist and Twilight Zone writer Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend stars Vincent Price as a solitary survivor of a disease that transforms the population into living shells of their former selves. “(George) Romero always said that he got his ideas from Richard Matheson’s novel I am Legend, but looking at Night of the Living Dead it seems like the first film adaptation of that book, The Last Man on Earth, was the real influence.”—Birth.Movies.Death.

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Appears in: 2018 on Celluloid, Genrified! Cult & Other Curiosities

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