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Plague victims of The Last Man on Earth

FilmUndead1900 to 1967

The first adaptation of I Am Legend stars Vincent Price. Its plague victims are weak, slow-witted undead who are staked and burned, while a treated group of infected has organised itself. Not a success on release, it is now regarded as a genre classic.12

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First appeared
1964
Released 1964
Source work
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Sidney Salkow and Ubaldo Ragona
Made in
USA, Italy
What causes it
Other
A worldwide plague kills people and brings them back as vampire-like undead.
How you become one
Those who die of the plague return to life.
Intelligence
Some intelligence
Weak spots
  • sunlight
  • mirrors
  • garlic
  • wooden stake
  • burning the body

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1964

Released 1964

field notes

What the sources say

1

The risen dead are weak and unintelligent12

2

A second group, kept stable by a vaccine-and-blood treatment, is organised and runs spies12

3

The first of three film versions of I Am Legend12

4

Shot in black and white in Italy with a mostly Italian cast and Vincent Price in the lead12

5

Matheson disliked the rewrites and used the pseudonym Logan Swanson12

Sources

  1. The Last Man on Earth (1964 film) - Wikipedia
  2. I Am Legend (novel) - Wikipedia

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