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The Omega Man (1971)

Director: Boris Sagal

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From Time Out Film Guide

This second screen adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic sci-fi novel I Am Legend (the first was The Last Man on Earth, 1964) still doesn't succeed in conveying the exultant paranoia of its original as effectively as (for example) Night of the Living Dead. In Matheson's story, the last man on earth was besieged by vast numbers of vampires, the victims of an apocalyptic plague; but this version substitutes a few albino mutants for the vampires, and reduces the original's brilliant cross-fertilisation of Gothic myth and doomsday fantasy to an averagely competent exercise in comic strip sci-fi.

Author: DP 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

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  • Rachel Gaspar said...
    Posted on Apr 12 2008 21:51 Terrible review. 30 years later, still on my top 10 list
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The Omega Man

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Director: Boris Sagal

Producer: Walter Seltzer

Cast: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Eric Laneuville full cast

Genre(s): Science Fiction

Duration: 98 mins

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