Weirdhouse Cinema: The Last Man on Earth
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 106 minutes
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On this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss the 1964 film "The Last Man on Earth," based on the post-apocalyptic vampire novel "I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson and starring Vincent Price.
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| 0:36.6 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:47.1 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. My name is Rob Lamb. |
| 0:50.5 | And I am Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema, we are going to be talking about the 1964 U.S. Italian co-production, I believe for American International Pictures, our old favorite. |
| 1:02.6 | AIP. |
| 1:03.5 | The Last Man on Earth, starring Vincent Price, the first of the three official film adaptations of Richard Matheson's highly |
| 1:13.6 | influential novel, I Am Legend. |
| 1:16.8 | The other two adaptations being, of course, The Omega Man, starring Charlton Heston from |
| 1:21.9 | 1971, and then I Am Legend, same title as the book, starring Will Smith from 2007. |
| 1:29.5 | Yeah, and they're still talking about doing a sequel to that 2007 film, but hasn't quite come together. |
| 1:35.4 | Yeah, or I guess maybe it's going to be a prequel. |
| 1:37.5 | You know how they do these days. |
| 1:38.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:40.2 | So the Last Man on Earth was the earliest film adaptation of this book and the only one that Matheson himself had any direct involvement in. |
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