![]() ![]() They move slowly, have very poor coordination, and with a notable (and honestly, ridiculous) exception, they do not speak. In the film, they don’t seem to pose much of a threat except in large numbers. While both have the traditional weaknesses, like garlic and mirrors, the vampires in the novel are much more difficult to evade, capable of running and climbing. The most significant difference between the movie and the novel is the nature of the infected. ![]() I will not be covering 1971’s Charlton Heston vehicle The Omega Man.ġ964’s The Last Man on Earth stars Vincent Price as Robert Morgan, a scientist seeking a cure for the plague. The book was adapted into three films, two of which I will recount here. The disease mimics vampirism, and Neville spends his days going out into the city to forage and to slay the individual vampires at their most vulnerable. The novel follows Robert Neville, the last survivor of a pandemic in Los Angeles. If one were forced to choose the single best known work from Richard Matheson’s vast bibliography, it would be his 1954 novel I Am Legend. ![]()
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