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The Blind Dead series - Some of the movies are pretty good and some are meh at best.

 

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The absolute worst zombie movie ever - Zombie '90 Extreme Pestilence.
The Cinema Snob bravely tackles this one so we all don't have to..

 

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The absolute worst zombie movie ever - Zombie '90 Extreme Pestilence.
The Cinema Snob bravely tackles this one so we all don't have to..

No way, man. This one is the worst. Underwater Nazi zombies? I rest my case.

 

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No way, man. This one is the worst. Underwater Nazi zombies? I rest my case.

Trust me Shock Waves is Oscar bait compared to Zombie 7. And it has Peter Cushing in the movie!

 

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There's another one on Netflix that I have been meaning to watch.

 

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The one, the only, the original OMEGA MAN starring Charlton Heston!!!!

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"Omega Man" was just another adaptation of the sci-fi novel "I am Legend". The Vincent Price "Last Man on Earth" was the first movie to adapt that novel for a film. The third and latest adaptation of this story was Will Smith's 2007 movie "I am Legend", which was the only movie to actually use the title of the novel.

"I am Legend" was published as a book in 1954. It's author, Richard Matheson, actually did also write a screenplay that adapted the novel to film. However, it was considered to be too graphic and violent by Hollywood executives , and they originally past on making a film based on it.

His 1956 Novel "The Shrinking Man" fared better with Hollywood, and was made into the 1957 Sci-Fi feature movie "The Incredible Shrinking Man".

Eventually a screenplay was approved to adapt "I am Legend" in 1964, with Vincent Price starring. However, there was a lot of censorship in it to eliminate the more extreme gore and violence from the story.

Richard Matheson also liked to write Westerns, and he ended up writing a total of 8 episodes for the early TV Western programs Cheyenne, Have Gun – Will Travel, and Lawman. The 60's TV show what he wrote the most for was "The Twilight Zone". He wrote a total of 12 stories for that program, including the episode "Nightmare at 20,000 ft", which was the first big break in Television for William Shatner, who went on to star in Star Trek 3 years later.

Another interesting fact about this story is that director George A. Romero acknowledged that its 1964 adaptation, "The Last Man on Earth", was his inspiration for this first successful film: the groundbreaking "Night of the Living Dead" (1968)






Matheson past away 3 years ago, at the age of 97, and was still living in his home at the time of his passing:




Matheson unfortunately was never able to get Hollywood interested in making a film based on his novel about the life of Wild Bill Hickok:

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Thanks for your post Lance.
Matheson was a great writer.
He also wrote a novel about his WWII experiences called The beardless Warriors .
It takes place during the Battle of the Bulge , it is an excellent read.
Andy

 

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There's another one on Netflix that I have been meaning to watch.

Zombeavers came to mind right away.
Was going through the posts before listing this one. Its worth watching. But once is enough.