Posted on 04/15/2023 3:24:33 PM PDT by DallasBiff
By night they leave their graves, crawling, shambling, through empty streets, whimpering, pleading, begging for his blood! When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
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I know to all the Richard Matheson fans out there, he is not in the credits, but he did work on the film.
Also Vincent Price, in a rare role, is a family man and kisses his wife.
Exc. flick . I have it on DVD !
I wish they wouldn’t colorise B+W films.
As long as the originals are preserved, it is sometimes the only way to get today’s children to watch classics such as the Three Stooges. Exception for the colorized Popeye cartoons where colorizing ruined the rich monochrome backgrounds.
Omega Man and a more recent major movie whose name I forget are remakes of this. Price plays it straight in this one. He’s a decent leading man.
Vincent Price was a character actor, a genre actor, but he was able to coax nuance out of each of his roles. Hard to say that a legend is underrated, but yeah, there it is.
Did you know that Price’s father was Pres. of The National Candy Company ; that his grandfather invented Dr. Price’s Baking Powder ; and that he was a descendant of the first child born in colonial Massachusetts ? Price graduated from Yale with a degree in English !
I am Legend
I saw this first in 2004, the Vincent Price, I grew up with was always the horror villain, and on cooking shows.
Who who is killed in a church, being the only man whose blood could save them, but misunderstood. Obviously taken from the gospel of Christ, but in the actual historical event the ignorance and misunderstanding of the crucifies of the Lord Christ was due to their hardness of heart. Aside from Christian films this would likely be rejected today.
I would recommend The Masque of the Red Death. Roger Corman, Vincent Price. Creepy, unsettling, a little trippy. A good movie for early evening on Halloween...
1985 Citibank Visa “Vincent Price - Bug Zapper” TV Commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IfHlHiv6WQ
BKMK
Yep, a very groovy movie.
Having seen this multiple times over the years since it came out, I have to say that colorization changes the imagery of the film. It really needs to be black and white.
He had a great supporting role in the great film noir Laura. And I remember him in a WW2 Era film which I saw maybe in 7th grade and have not seen since. The Eve of St. Mark,, about National Guardsmen in the Philippines in 42. That film haunted me.
How about this,
Dr. Lukas Mandeville: I find this case enthralling. Have you read all the reports?
Dr. Barbara Coyle: No.
Dr. Lukas Mandeville: Well if you had, you’d know about the strange things that have taken place in that house years ago. Do you realize that eighteen people were murdered there one night?
Dr. Barbara Coyle: Coincidence. Anyway, lightning never strikes twice.
Dr. Lukas Mandeville: Well it did then. Two people were struck by lightning. Two who’s throats were slit. One was hung. Two were axed, four people were skewered in the same bed. And a man watching, simply blew up!
Dr. Barbara Coyle: What happened to the other six?
Dr. Lukas Mandeville: What?
Dr. Barbara Coyle: You said there were eighteen.
Dr. Lukas Mandeville: Oh, yes, yes, the other six. They were found frozen to death in the deep freeze. All wrapped in cling film. They’d been shot.
Vincent Price’s parts in this;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyLWS_CjI1M
..and of course, Jane Asher. Let’s just say it was good to be a Beatle in 1964...
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