However, both had drastic changes to the story and not even the first and most faithful adaptation of the novel, the 1964 Vincent Price film The Last Man on Earth, truly captured the full breadth of the book or the vampiric element to the story. This novel has been made into film three times, most recently as the 2007 Will Smith film, I Am Legend, and the 1971 Charlton Heston film, The Omega Man. You may find yourself wondering how you would survive in Neville’s placeĪnd Matheson does a great job of setting the stakes (pun intended) of Neville’s The book tells the story of Robert Neville, the only survivor of a germ that turned the rest of humanity into vampire-like creatures and began with simple ideas. Scary moments and surprises through to the end. There is a lot of introspective character development mixed with Looking for supplies, and answers to his immunity to the disease. This novel is equal parts, horror novel, political commentary,Īnd detective tale, as Neville traverses the remnants of the American dream, Home and travels only by day, as each night his house is besieged by theīlood-thirsty population of his town, trying to break in. Survivor of a pandemic that has turned the Earth’s human population into In I Am Legend, Matheson shows us Robert Neville, a lone An acclaimed SF novel about vampires becomes a stunning new movie starring Will Smith.
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