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Director Danny Boyle ("Trainspotting") makes no bones about the fact that his movie is a genre piece that happily rips off not only the Romero zombie movies but such end-of-civilization classics as 1959's "The World, the Flesh and the Devil" and 1971's "The Omega Man."
Yep, you’ve seen it all before with Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth, Charlton Heston in The Omega Man and, of course, in George A. Romero’s “Dead” trilogy.
Fans of movies such as George Romero's classic Night of the Living Dead trilogy and Boris Sagal's 1971 apocalyptic The Omega Man will find buckets of flesh-eating fun in Boyle's hyperactive update of the infernal and always-entertaining battle between the living and the undead.
Let's call it the thinking person's version of "The Omega Man" or "The Last Man on Earth."
A cross between The Omega Man and Night of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later is a great action/horror movie.
After fizzling with "The Beach", Danny Boyle makes a solid comeback with "28 Days Later" - a film which had all the potential of being just another post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror clone of the likes of "The Omega Man", and while its not deftly original, it is a very engaging and dark little piece which is quite enjoyable.After the pre-requisite intro showing the virus' quite ironic escape the film begins with a nude Jim (Cillan Murphy) waking up in hospital and alone.
The Dog Stars is Scott’s frontier movie, his Omega Man western…
Getting us to care about whether humanity can survive all this comes down to Elordi, whose wounded-emo performance mixes Bruce Dern’s astronaut botanist in Silent Running with Charlton Heston’s heroic military scientist in The Omega Man.
The set-up is pure early 1970s sci-fi (Pfister cites the pre- Star Wars canon of The Andromeda Strain , The Omega Man , Silent Running et al as influential) as Johnny Depp's modern Frankenstein, Will Caster, addresses a confrontational audience on the world-changing possibilities of "technological singularity" – the creation of a sentient, self-aware computer that crosses the boundary between man and machine.
While it's an original story, it's hard not to see comparisons in Finch to post-apocalyptic sci-fi tales such as I Am Legend and The Omega Man .
It cribs liberally from other post-apoc efforts like The Omega Man or 28 Days Later , except it mostly takes place in sunny, brightly-lit locales.
First adaptation, the 1964 Vincent Price starrer “The Last Man on Earth,” lensed in Italy by helmer Sidney Salkow, was a cheesy affair, while the 1971 “The Omega Man,” toplining Charlton Heston under Boris Sagal’s direction, murkily altered the story to put the leading man up against an albino cult called “the Family.”
Previously done as the 1964 Vincent Price film "The Last Man on Earth" and then as "The Omega Man" in 1971 starring Charlton Heston, the story is about a lone man living in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by some nasty germs and their living dead victims (vampire type beings the first time around, zombies with the second).
Vincent Price first played the role in 1964's "The Last Man on Earth" and Charlton Heston took it on in 1971's "The Omega Man."
Based pretty loosely on the Richard Matheson classic, it was already filmed in 1964 as “The Last Man on Earth” and in 1971 as “The Omega Man.”
A handful of adaptations of the book have already been made, including 1964’s cheesy “The Last Man on Earth,” starring Vincent Price, and the 1971 Charlton Heston vehicle “The Omega Man.”
First adapted to screen in 1964 as an Italian co-production called "The Last Man on Earth" and then in 1971 as "The Omega Man," "I Am Legend" has intrigued generations of readers and viewers with its musings on loneliness and implications about the disintegration of modern society.
Like The Omega Man or I Am Legend it assumes a familiarity with certain supernatural tropes in order to use and subvert them.
I Am Legend covered similar ground, but that movie (and its predecessor, The Omega Man) knew well enough to keep moving into different situations.
Imagine an old-fashioned Hollywood Egyptian epic crossed with a Heavy Metal comic and the fevered third world bits from the Koyaanisqatsi trilogy with a little of Metropolis , Soylent Green , and The Omega Man chucked in.
It's an action movie smashed together from the pulp of seemingly every post-apocalyptic flick ever made, from "The Omega Man" to "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" to "Children of Men," with Westerns and biblical epics thrown in for good measure.