This is a very bad movie. It has good actors in it. Vincent Price was a great actor he made good movies most of time. But this is not one of them. It has an awful story line. The ending is awful. The 1971 remake titled Omega Man is not very good and it is better then this. The 2007 remake I am Legend is a great movie. See that one. Do not see this. It is a horror movie and It is not scary.

Released in 1964 (and filmed in b&w) - Had it not been for this Italian Sci-Fi/Horror film's low-budget, amateurish direction, and its terrible miscasting of wimp-actor, Vincent Price - Then, yes - Perhaps I might have ranked it higher than I did.Based on Richard Matheson's apocalyptic story "I Am Legend" (which he wrote in 1954) - The one thing that this film is notable for is that it is probably one of the very first horror movies to actually portray zombies as being rampaging, ravenous creatures.In that particular vein - This film predates George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" by four years.Clearly tame by today's standards of flesh/blood-lusting zombies - This film actually might have appealed to me more had it not starred the lisping, effeminate, Vincent Price whose lack-lustre performance seriously marred the story's potential from start to finish.

*Spoiler/plot- Last Man on Earth, 1964. The whole world is infected with a pathogen that makes people first blind and then progresses to full blown zombie-like symptoms. Hating the smell of garlic & reflections in mirrors and they only travel during the nigh time hours looking for the living to kill.*Special Stars- Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, *Theme- The scientific method can cause and cure outbreaks of zombie disease.*Trivia/location/goofs- Italian production. Remade many times: "Omega Man" (71) with Charlton Heston and "I Am Legend' (07) with Will Smith, George Romero's "Night of the living dead". Supposedly takes place in US in 1968. Mr Price insisted in using real people to play the morning dead zombies to be put in his 'hearse', while at the dump site they're prop artificial bodies.*Emotion- The first and best produced feature films of this film genre. Due to the film being so old, it is not troubled with today's need to use digital gimmick's to ruin the the empathetic dark plot. The genre has been remade many many times with differing results from the audience ticket sales. I enjoyed the Charlton Heston version, "Omega Man" from the 70's. Mr. Price is solid as the lead role performer of the role of sad widower and father of a stricken child.*Based on- Vampire and zombie legends.

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.