besides being one of my favorite movies , is one that many people (including the master himself George Romero) credit as being an inspiration for “Night of the Living Dead” so I wanted to have it included here.

    The film is based on the classic Richard Matheson story “I Am Legend” about a man who is the only survivor of a plague that turns the world’s population into vampires. ” Morgan”(Vincent Price) survives because he is immune due to a vaccine he created. The film plays like a video diary documenting the day to day drudgery and loneliness that is the life of a solitary vampire hunter who has lost everything while struggling to hold onto his sanity and ultimately his humanity. In the end he finally meets another “survivor” only to find out that she’s is simply a vampire that has adapted and she proves to be his undoing by film’s end despite her attempts to save him.

action. One could almost splice  these scenes into “Night of the Living Dead” and they would hardly seem out of place. I can easily see young George Romero drawing his zombie vision from this film and those scenes in particular . I know he had other influences(like Hammer’s Plague of the Zombies) but few are so clear. In fact, Romero has been known to use the term “Ripped Off”