I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The single greatest takeaway from this film is how similar the zombies are to the ones in Night of the Living Dead. In fact, they are the same zombies! I have seen a couple of 'Making of' and documentaries about NOTLD, and never heard mention it's predecessor.As far as the movie itself is concerned, it's pretty good for a Vincent Price vehicle, and some of the writing is quite good in it. The story hews closely to the book original, so I've heard, and the ending is profound and disturbing. This is definitely one of the better films of it's genre, despite being low budget and black and white. I recommend it, especially for those who enjoy this genre of film.

Seasoned and well polished actor Vincent Price shows his range of emotions through this living nightmare of a movie. A strain of disease has spread throughout the world turning the masses into vampire like creatures who only come out when the sun sets. For some strange reason Dr Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is the only survivor at the moment as he hunkers down nightly in his home filled with exposed wires playing jazz records and even watching home movie on his projector. Meanwhile outside his front door are the downtrodden Vampires with clubs banging and yelling his name to come out. During his days he gets on his HAM radio calling out "KOKW calling. Is anybody out there?" as the sound of static fills the air.The look of dismay on our Doctor's face as he faces another day alone among the living dead. Then off to his garage as he pours petrol into his generator to power up his workshop and makes wooden stakes from his lathe. Then off to the supermarket for fresh pungent garlic to keep away the nocturnal intruders.Then he checks his map for the hiding areas where our vampires for the most part are sleeping. Then our good Doctor pulls out one of the wooden stakes and with mallet in hand drives it hard through their hearts.With each hit Dr. Morgan keeps score of each strike.Unfortunately its like removing grains of sand from a an endless beach. There are so many yet to destroy. Then he carries a few bodies to his station wagon and drives to a flaming pit. Dumps the bodies into the hole for cremation. Then it's back home to prepare for the evening's festivities as the vampire neighbors commence their onslaught. This has been going on for three years as Dr. Morgan labels his makeshift calendar as he slashes the days gone by. Price narrates the beginning scenes as the Lone Doctor tries to make sense of the demise of the Human race. Morgan gets philosophical with deep thoughts, " I can't afford the luxury of anger. Anger can make me vulnerable. It can destroy my reason and reason's the only advantage I have over them." Wednesday night is movie night in the Morgan dwelling as our Doctor sits alone and watches on his projector. As the movie unfolds Morgan flashes back to a normal time before the strain hits of Birthday parties and family. The films bring instant joy and satisfaction as he starts to laugh and then as the reel ends the laughing turns to sobbing as we hear the bangs and yelling from the outside. The movie goes through the sequences of the disease as Morgan's who is employed as a chemist works diligently and feverishly for a cure with no results.His town or city which is not mentioned has the virous including his daughter Kathy who is stricken as we see the poor child dis oriented, sickly and blind calling out for her Mommy and Daddy. Speaking about Mommy,Virg, (Emma Danieli) she is also afflicted and it's a matter of time before she screams and shouts,"I CAN'T SEE!" the final stage before the transformation. This horrible situation is bestowed upon our Doctor who tries to bury his spouse naturally only to have her come back to the front door covered in dirt looking at Morgan if he was a juicy piece of meat. That explains the flaming pit. It's Dr. Morgan against this Topsy turvy world of nocturnal carnivores. Is there anyone out there besides these creatures? This story was written by William Leicester and the screenplay was written by Richard Matheson who's name is associated with horror shows on Television. Twilight Zone, Outer limits and Thriller. Matheson has also written the novel for the color follow-up movie The Omega Man. The Last Man On Earth started the ball rolling for Zombie apocalypse genre which a few years later with the sleeper, low-budget classic by George Romero Night Of the Living Dead. Nothing like the original and remember to lock your doors when viewing this epic picture.

One of three filmed versions of Richard Matheson's classic tale I Am Legend (the others being THE OMEGA MAN, starring Charlton Heston, and I AM LEGEND, with Will Smith), THE LAST MAN ON EARTH has strengths and weaknesses in equal measure. On the plus side, the film achieves a real sense of true horror. This is not the jump-in-your-seat kind of horror though, but a heartfelt feeling of isolation and despair felt at the situation Vincent Price's character is in. Unfortunately, the subject matter of the film is hardly one to make the viewer happy, so it leaves a general depressing tone to the proceedings, but then again that's the point, isn't it? Vincent Price is on top form as the stern and resolute survivor who is plagued (no pun intended) by responsibility and memory of what has happened, and his dulcet tones are perfect for the narration of the story. Filmed in Rome, the locations are all authentic too, and they add hugely to the feel of the film and the grand isolation of it all. There are some action scenes interspersed through the film, generally fights with vampires, but the camera tends to cut away at the deaths instead of concentrating on them. There is also a terrific finale where Price is being chased by the half-vampire squad intent on gunning him down, and a stomach-thump downbeat ending.The images of the vampires knocking at the windows and trying to break into the house is a very bleak, hostile one, and it has recurred since in the cinema, most notably in Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, where hordes of white-faced (or green-faced, if you watch the colourised version) zombies try to force their way into a deserted farmhouse to eat the survivors trapped inside. On the down side, the simple nature of the film means that it tends to get bogged down in character study in what is essentially a one-idea movie. Also, some scenes veer on boredom, especially the drawn out scene where Price remembers the events leading up to his situation, which seems to have simply been added in to fill out space. These flaws are not important however and they don't affect the film too much overall, leaving it a thought-provoking, if depressing, under-rated classic. Well worth getting.

The hardest was to rate this movie. I thought 6 was too low and 7 seemed too high but given all the good points it has I think it is justified even if I don't think I will watch this movie anytime soon. So it is an apocalyptic movie with Vincent Price as protagonist, a scientist in a world full of infected people. When the infected people die they eventually come back as living dead. They are called vampires but resemble zombies more (because they are slow, weak and pretty dumb) and it looks Romero might have gotten his inspiration from this movie to make his Night of the Living Dead. But a lot of the vampire features are there: the vampires can't stand daylight, are allergic to garlic, have no reflection and can be killed by driving a stake through their heart. The whole story is told in a narrative way since Price's character has no one to talk to most of the movie. By means of flashbacks we get to know how he and the whole planet (well that's my guess) has gotten into this situation. I'm aware that I am Legend is some kind of remake or more recent adaptation from this story but where I thought I am Legend was rather stupid this "original" was much more effective to me. Tragic ending which might have been fitting after all.