The Omega Man (1971) First Time Watching Reaction & Review
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- First time reaction and brief review of the movie "The Omega Man". Future Reaction Polls + Early Access + Exclusive Content. Available on Patreon: / alexachipman
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I'm glad I'm not the only person to notice the composer also scored The Prisoner!
All I know of the prisoner is the Iron Maiden song and that the lead actor appeared in one of my favorite movies Scanners from, 1981.
It's a great soundtrack.
Yes, the Omega Man, Vincent Price's last man on Earth and Will Smith's I am legend are all based on the book I am legend. I'll be honest, I have never read the book so I don't know which is the most faithful adaptation, my understanding is the theatrical cut of I am legend is the least faithful with the alternate ending in the director's cut being far more in line with the book. ( I hope I'm being vague enough to avoid spoiling anything ) The Omega Man is by far my favorite version, with the Last Man on Earth being a close second.
the book is well worth a read
Price's is closest to the book...but lordy it's boring (I 💕 Vincent, tbc).
But...all 3 muss the ending of the book, which is 🔥. More importantly: the ending of the book explains the title (won't spoil)...and clarifies the book's allegory about prejudice. So...the entire point of the dang thing is lost in each flick.
On a Tail-Note, this is one of my favourite films starring Charlton Heston, but then, I don't think this screen-legend EVER made a bad movie anyhow.
Another hit from Chuck.
And another Hit Review, Alexa.
We don't have to ask you to just keep 'em coming.
A dedicated fan of your channel, forevermore.
This might be Charlton Heston's Best Movie. The Ending was so Sad, Though. Still makes me cry whenever I watch it. 😢
What about 10 commandments or Ben-Hur?
Those were Great too.
Died like a man, to save his people. A hero.
I'm 60 years old. It's one of my all time. Favorite movies seen it at deer park movie theater back when it first came out. I still love this movie
Saw it as a kid. I think it's the first and only movie I've ever seen where the protagonist does NOT win in the end. And there's no sequel.
" Show him, my children. Show him the pretty marks."
I believe that was the most memorable quote in the movie.
As to a fully faithful adaptation of the novel, Richard Matheson worked on the first film adaptation, The Last Man on Earth, but due to rewrites (oh Hollywood) asked not to be credited. But it is probably the closest to the novel.
Speaking of Veronica Roth, a friend of mine knew her when she was at Northwestern U. getting her undergrad.
When they pull back their hoods and reveal their vampiric countenances, it was sad and creepy.
Omega Man has one of those moments. The thing that once you see you can't unsee. When he's driving around in the beginning of the movie in the distance you can see a car moving.
Have you seen Gene Roddenberry’s made-for-tv film “Genesis II”? Basically a pilot for a new tv show from 1973. A man in cryogenic sleep wakes up in a post-apocalyptic earth (WW3 will do that) in the year 2133. Majel Barret, plus some TOS and MI guest stars are also in it.
A good one also.
16:33 The genre has a name "survival horror". The black & white Price version inspired "Night Of The Living Dead" which lead to "Dawn Of The Dead" which is still the gold standard. Then that one inspired all the apocalypse stuff since. "Dawn Of The Dead" is the "Star Wars: A New Hope" of survival horror.
Survival Horror - perfect description.
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Yes Dawn off the Dead " 1978
George Romero's masterpiece a true adventure and another apocalyptic one from George Romero as well
Day off the Dead " 1985
Hi Alexa,
Just as you were saying Does this sound like The Prisoner", I was thinking "This sounds like The Prisoner", so I think we can give that a big Yes!.
Another of the more unusual "Zombie" movies is the horror comedy "Night of the Comet", from the 80's.
Looked it up...same cat did the music for both this and The Prisoner theme, indeed!
Night of the Comet is a good one, despite some problems in the basic plot.
This is one of my favorite movies and favorite versions of I am Legend. I agree that him dying in the end was a good way to conclude it even though it is so saddening. It shows his sacrifice and makes a good closing chapter to his story. And they left it off perfectly with a ray of hope in that the serum was delivered to the group of last humans. Neville was the last non-mutated human of the old dying world (winter of man), the children were the new start of the peaceful and blossoming one (the springtime). He held onto to his last breaths in order to give them the serum and immunity to the plague. From there the assumption is that they lived on to reboot humanity.
There is the constant subtext of war/violence vs. peace/love in this movie (Woodstock film vs. the PTSD flashbacks of destruction and the end of the world, Ritchie innocent views vs. Neville's jaded realist ones, technology vs. primitive/natural/minimalist, etc.), and the implication was that the kids could start a new peaceful world that hopefully didn't make the same mistakes of old dead one. It likely would be a peaceful new society for many generations at least (the children in it were like the "flower children"). Neville loved the idea of peace and the children (foreshadowed by his reactions to the Woodstock film and his interactions with the children) were the hope in it that he needed to finally live before he died and experience his sense of humanity once more. The Mathias family was a mirror of Neville, both dying off and losing touch with their sense of humanity in slightly different ways. Probably part of the reason he never moved. In a way they needed each other to have a last purpose. They were the last vestiges of the war that destroyed the world and its final hill. So he put it all on the line for children as the warrior he was and became their Paladin. He already knew it was too late for him, but not for them. His final showdown with the family, it was like he sensed it would be the end for both sides. While he didn't kill off all of the Mathias cult, they were dying off from the plague anyway and their days numbered.
The ending is so perfectly bittersweet and ties all the movie's elements together at the last moment to give the final message. We definitely grow an attachment to Neville thanks to Charleston Heston's stellar and charismatic performance, but we can let him go because his end is the final and total closure to the old and violent world, and what Neville ultimately wanted to see. It's like his last dying wish was granted instead of having to slowly fade away into despair and hopelessness in vain. The Mathias cult was dying physically, while Neville was dying in spirit. Was his immunity to plague more of a curse or a blessing? It turned out to be a blessing because of the turn of events in finding out he wasn't the last human like he thought. If there were no children left on earth, his immunity would have been moot.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s, the nihilistic view of the cold war, nuclear and biological weapons.,was well portrayed in this. I remember the duck and cover drills in kindergarten.
Yes thus movie was an adaptation of "I am Legend" which I also read. There was another movie with, I believe but am not sure, Vincent Price, made in the 60s, and of course the Will Smith film. Both are good and all 3 have a slightly different take on it.
Good job.
Yes, The Last Man on Earth, 1964, with Vincent Price. Good film in its own way.
Okay so I have seen all three adaptations of the story I Am Legend.
The original Vincent Price one called Last Man on Earth,
This one and the Will Smith film, but as much as Price's is my favorite version, none are completely accurate to the original story by Richard Matheson who once said he didn't know why Hollywood kept wanting to adapt his story. Matheson also did many teleplay for episodes of The Twilight Zone.
I wonder that myself sometimes when Hollywood does an adaptation over and over and yet none of them are accurate (eg “Emma” which still has no truly wow factor adaptation).
@@alexachipman I honestly don't know. If I were to ever have a film studio it would be just to do 100% accurate to the original work adaptations such as:
Christmas Carol,
Dracula,
Frankenstein,
etc,
Books don’t really adapt 100% perfectly to films as they are after all different mediums most importantly, and different markets that a studio wants to sell in. Also you’ll have the artistic licence and vision of the directors/writers etc. Some exceptions there may be - the LOTRings trilogy was really long and in depth after all but no way did it include everything imagine listening to that long story history song in the film…
Hollywood will never adapt another's work 100 percent accurately. Novels have too many subtleties and nuances that simply can't be translated well to a visual medium. But it can come close sometimes. A couple of animated features that were successfully adapted faithfully to movies are "The Last Unicorn," which was written by Peter S. Beagle, author of the original novel, and "Watership Down." If you are interested in animated movies, you might want to give these a look-see.
They filmed the downtown LA sequences on the weekend. In the age of HD, you can see an occasional car in the distance. If you haven’t seen it, you need to wrap up Charlton Heston trilogy with “Planet of The Apes.”
I’ve seen that one a few times, I like to call it Charlton does parkour:)
The apartment set where they filmed it is still in the studio back lot in California.
I really enjoyed this movie as a kid because I wanted a cool townhouse fortress like his (I think it's probably a kid thing to want to make any building into a fort🙂)
The 70s vibe is really cool especially the soundtrack and use of the word "Honky" (hahaha, I haven't heard that since the Jeffersons)
I think the story differs from Matheson 's
in who is ultimately the villain (I won't spoil it in case anyone hasn't read it). There's definitely a Christ theme tho: his death pose in the fountain at the end and the world being cured by his blood.
The young boy that he cured and was killed by Matthias was played by a young Eric Laneuville who was an actor in the TV show st. Elsewhere and later became a prolific TV director. He's still directing today AFAIK.
This was based on Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend."
As others have mentioned, this is the second movie to adapt the Richard Matheson novel, "I Am Legend".
None of them get the punchline of the novel. The first one comes the closest.
Matheson wrote several 'Twilight Zone' episodes and had his novels 'The Shrinking Man' and 'The Legend of Hell House' turned into movies.
George A. Romero cites the victims in the first adaptation as the inspiration for his 'Zombies'/'Ghouls' in the 'Living Dead' movies.
Edit to add - the fountain is the same one, slightly redressed, used in the opening of 'Friends'.
Nice recap of it all.
The opening scenes were filmed on a Sunday morning in downtown L.A.: they didn't have to block off the streets - that's how empty the streets were in the early morning, back then.
I guess back in the day it was more like a regular town. I know on Saturday morning a lot of the time I'm the only car on the road on my way to work, I could see people being able to film then for an "empty" city.
Mathias was talking about the evil of "the wheel" and machines. Guess what a catapult has on it. Wheels! It's not just Zachary with his gun who's a hypocrite.
Also, the court building where Richie told him the Family was holed up was the same building that they took Neville to when they captured him. Why didn't he think of looking there?
Another great movie from 1971 is "Johnny Got his Gun" starring Timothy Bottoms and Jason Robards. Read the book in 7th grade. A year later the Metallica video came out
That movie is hard to watch
I saw George Romero in person say that he outright stole his version of the undead in Night of the Living Dead from the novel I am Legend by Richard Matheson.
Although Matheson called his creatures vampires they actually act more like modern-day zombies.
George Romero's use of that in his film began the basis of what we call zombies today, as opposed to the old Haitian/voodoo type zombies of earlier films.
There was a television show in the 70s called "Survivors"which took a look at a universal plague. It's a BBC series and stars Carolyn Seymour, who was in one episode of Space 1999. The series was created by Terry Nation, who also created Blake's 7.
@Otis B. Driftwood I am afraid that I disagree, but no harm.
I will find out for myself on Blake’s 7 soon!
Charles Manson and his family were and inspiration for the villians in the film.
"Tell me something, would you? Are you fellas really with the Internal Revenue Service?"
(American Democrats just voted to increase IRS by 87,000 agents. This will make the IRS larger than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol combined.) Very topical. 😕
Fun Fact: Charlton Heston had read the original novel on an airplane coming back to Los Angeles, and was very interested in a modern adaptation of the book. He was totally unaware of the fact it had already been made into a film years before as The Last Man On Earth (1964), starring Vincent Price.
Location Location Fact: The production company wanted a locale that looked like an abandoned metropolitan area, but it was too costly to build. The producer drove through downtown Los Angeles one weekend and discovered there were no shoppers, so the majority of the film's exteriors were shot there on weekends.
Historical Fact: In the film, the plague that causes the end of the world was unleashed by germ warfare as the result of a border war between China and Russia. In fact, China and Russia had some very serious border skirmishes during 1969 that had many world leaders concerned about the possibility of an all-out war between the Communist superpowers.
Congratulations you have consistently been the only one or the first or one of the firsts to do reactions on great forgotten gems. You are the only reaction channel to do OMEGA MAN I just watched you UFO pilot reaction another great gem basically made around the same time early 70s. It was a great time for music and movies. Btw they filmed this early mornings on Sunday. If you rewatch the opening there is a guy walking down the street in the background. Cheers
Thank you! And continued UFO reactions are coming soon, after Space: 1999 finishes.
I just recently saw your reaction to the 13th Warrior starring Antonio Banderas. I loved your reading and commentary about Beowulf. I know you react to the Outlander TV series. You should react to the movie Outlander (2008) starring Jim Caviezel. It is an alien (Outlander) who finds himself among Vikings. This movie is also inspired by Beowulf. The monster Grendel is now the Moorwen. I love your singing voice.
Thank you, but please please no spoilers in the comments!!!!
Yes, Outlander from 2008. Also, Outland from 1981. Has nothing to do with Beowulf but more people need to see it.
Saw this at the pictures with my mates from school, it was on a double bill with Doc Savage, Man of Bronze, starring Ron (Tarzan) Ely.
Rosalind Cash is extremely underrated.
Hi, Alexa. I just discovered your channel. I have to say that what really draws me in to watching your reviews is that you remind me of myself. I also go to the movies alone, and I appreciate your comments so much. I didn't realize that there was someone who watches and thinks in the same sappy way that I do. The Omega Man and Soylent Green are two of my favorite movies of all time. The Prisoner is also very much a favorite of mine. Charleton Heston is one of my favorite actors as well. Ron Grainer did the soundtracks for Omega Man and Prisoner, and I actually have the original soundtrack album for The Omega Man. Great music! Ron Grainer was a great talent. A little trivia about The Omega Man: Charleton Heston actually chose Rosalind Cash to play the Lisa character. Anyway, I'd like to recommend that you review Phantasm from 1979 if you haven't seen it. It's a bit of a horror flick, but it's got some great characters and I'd love to see your reactions. LOL! Take care.
Thank you and welcome!
I find these kind of movies interesting because while yes it is bad that everyone died. Its also seems fun to have the ability to just get whatever you want. Clothing, cars, bunkers ect ect.
I remember seeing this film when it was first released. I immediately associated this film with Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend." Charlton Heston was (and remains) one of the greatest actors of his; or any other; generation. Heston was also very good in, "Soylent Green." Thank you, Alexa Chipman, for your insightful review of this Science-Fiction classic.
Just in case - I also have a Soylent Green reaction :)
@@alexachipman -- I will view that video. As you know that film was Edward G. Robinson's last film. Thank you, dear lady. Take care -- W
Alexa, check out "The World, the Flesh and the Devil" (1959). " It's a film that I like a lot. Originally released by M-G-M, it's currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video and CZcams. I won't give anything away.
I haven’t seen this since the 70’s as a teen
Check out the first version of this story adapted from the Richard Matheson story "I am Legend".
The Last Man on Earth (1964) starring Vincent Price. It's quite good. It's also been public domain since the 1980s. So you could do the whole movie on CZcams.
And then if you want you might check out the Will Smith version, "I am Legend" (2007).
There was a Colorized Version of the Last Man On Earth. I don't know if It's Still Available on CZcams.
@@malhavok-752 better in glorious black and white.
Still Good In Any Format.
Will Smith's "I am legend" has an issue that those that turned are CGI. Make-up is much better. "Last man on Earth" with Vincent Price is decent (and similar) too
An unusual film choice, but I’ve always enjoyed it. The Last Man on Earth was ok, but I prefer The Last Woman on Earth, one of Roger Corman’s (bad) gems. Thanks for this review, Alexa.
This film really spooked modern viewers, particularly when Matthias remembers the plague in the flashback, and the warnings like "STAY IN YOUR HOMES!" Too much like what was being broadcast about CoVid when it was sweeping across the US.
Interesting- I found it to be the reverse - rather mundane because we all lived through something similar!
@@alexachipman I guess when people were watching it while Covid was underway, they felt it was more like a documentary than a fictional story.
If you like exploring these ideas, and you haven't already done so, you might want to read "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller, Jr. The basic premise is that we have more or less wiped ourselves out with nuclear weapons, and the survivors blamed the scientists. The "Leibowitz" in the title is the name a "booklegger," who was murdered trying to preserve human knowledge. The novel focuses on a monastic community in Utah named for him who see their charism as preserving knowledge (and pushing for Leibowitz's canonization). The novel starts in the 32nd century and covers a period of about a millennium divided into three eras.
Such an epic read. Leaves Fahrenheit 451 (which _is_ boss!) in its dust.
Thank you so much for the Prisoner tv show mention i was searching something like that i am a bigggg fan of The Persuaders or The Saint with Roger Moore and i was serching for something old but new for may collection of classic tv shows, and hy from Romania 🙋
Had never seen this one, but it reminds me of a similar movie from the 1980s called The Quiet Earth.
It is meant to be an adaptation of Richard Matherson's 'I Am Legend' with some changes to make it contemporary (for the 70's). Although 'Last Man On Earth' is closest to the book it's my favourite version, especially with Ron Grainer's score...
Was really looking forward to this and you nailed it!! How wonderful you are. Rare. Unique.
Other versions for those interested:
'The Last Man on Earth' (1964) starring Vincent Price.
'Night of the Comet' (1984) starring Catherine Mary Stewart & Kelli Maroney
'I Am Legend' (2007) starring Will Smith
Great movie and review 🚨
There was a black & white film called "The Last Man On Earth," made in 1964 starring Vincent Price. Made in Italy, It was a more faithful adaption of "I Am Legend," and did have a few good moments, but was hampered by a small budget, a few cheap looking sets and poor sound track.
Had to look it up... you're quite *RIGHT* Alexa...music by the same cat that did the theme to The Prisoner. Cheers for teaching me more silly trivia! Vote #6! Be seeing you...
No-one:
Me: This reminds me of The Prisoner...
Only in this case it panned out! :)
@@alexachipman Sadly, it goes nowhere, but Jack Kirby started a Prisoner comic book. It's opening is the Village being abandoned and vined into ruin...but Number 6 remains (returned?) and is sitting on 2's throne, having gone quite, quite mad.
...as a hatter, I suppose the saying goes. (But he doesn't have a hat on, so maybe I'm stretching...)
Great reaction and commentary. I saw this on TV as a kid in the late 70's and it just stuck with me. Have you ever seen the 1968 Peter Bogdanovich film Targets with Boris Karloff? If not, it's a very good hidden gem. 👍 Thanks
Charlton Heston was a bad aas and a true pioneer in Sci-Fi dystopian movies that made you think about the world around us and the possibilities?
So true!
The last man on earth is the closet adaptation of the book. Without i'm legen there wouldnt be zombie movies, George romero took i'm legend as a base for night of the living dead.
I would echo the person who commented on your "13th Warrior" reaction. I especially like the part at the very, very end, where Antonio Banderas unhinges his jaw, and devours the entire cast of "Fiddler On The Roof". I don't know what makes me sob harder, the moment itself, or the touching and subtle Danny Elfman score.
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My goodness, I haven't seen this film in 40 + years. And is it just me of do the zombie women at 8:15 look really attractive? A sex scene between a white guy and a black woman was pretty innovative and daring in 1971. And is that Ron Howard at 10:24 ? Charlton Heston was a household name by this time after The Ten Commandments and Planet of the Apes. Fun watching this review Alexa.
Another "last man on Earth" movie you might consider came from New Zealand in the 1980s - "This Quiet Earth" - takes a very different course (no zombies, vampires, "family," etc.). I was going to drop a link to the trailer, but it has spoilers.
Well, you just posted it with spoilers, it is now disqualified.
@@alexachipman Oh! Okay, very strictly nothing about the movie. Okay, will take note. If it makes any difference, everything I said is revealed in the first few minutes of the film. But if you don't react to it, at least consider watching it. I think you'll really enjoy it.
love post apocolptic ....when done well....which this was
"Hallowed are the Ori.", I just realized who those creepy monk-mutants remind me of! I'M A NAME NOT A NUMBER! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! Everything that Charlton Heston is in I can't resist!
Reminds me of the Star Trek episode Miri
Pretty much anything associated with Richard Matheson's books, or his screenplays are worthwhile, Alexa. I doubt if you would be disappointed with any of them out there.
The prisoner is so great
I’ve Never Herd of Soylent Green Before but I remember this movie thanks for this Share
Re: Adaptations "Last Man On Earth" is the most novel accurate. "Omega Man" makes the most changes but is more entertaining for it. The 2007 "I Am Legend" is....skippable.
Not a fan of the Cartoonish CGI Zombies in I Am Legend ?
@@malhavok-752 I mean, if they're gonna be cartoons, at least dispatch them in fun Wile E. Coyote ways to justify it.
13:52 Like Surak in "The Savage Curtain' which was on just last night.
14:42...and, they got him like Surak. 😥
A lot of topless in Heston in this film.
Forbin Project ! Be the first to react !
The boy and his dog was another strange one
In cased any one wants to check it out. A Boy and His Dog, 1975, with Jason Robards and a very young Don Johnson, based on a Harlan Ellison novella, unique and very funny film, highly recommended and I would love to see a reaction, Alexa. .... on a side note, I consider how people react to the ending to be a highly accurate IQ test.
Yes Prisoner reference!
I'm afraid that happens quite often on this channel :) I went to Portmeirion a few times and was running around with some other fans doing a sort of Prisoner larping (we ran into each other on the beach sprinting around shouting "I am not a Number" and sort of joined forces).
@@alexachipman Why not do a reaction series to the Prisoner? Also having been to Portmerion for around the 30th time this month and catching the 60th anniversary showing of On her majesty’s secret service there’s a lot of Prisoner ties to that particular Bond. It’s pretty crazy
Perhaps this British apocalyptic TV series has being recommended to you before, Alexa, but try the BBCTV Series from 1974-75, "Survivors".
Last I checked, all 3 season episodes are available on YOU Tube.
It is about a world-wide Covid-19 style pandemic that leaves the whole globe just a third of its original population.
Try it. Its a classic!
Thank you, in future please do not include spoilers with suggestions: just name of the show + year.
@@alexachipman OOPS! I do apologise, Alexa. Got a bit ahead of myself.
You should watch I Am Legend
To film with no one downtown LA they always filmed on Sunday mornings
I really love the feel of the movie, the emptiness of the city and for a while it appears he is alone with only those infected people. Even so, it does appear the human population is almost extinct and about to wink out unless that cure works. The only part that isn't great are the wigs and makeup on the antagonists. It doesn't kill the mood, but they could have done better. I guess money was tight for the film.
I get original Star Trek vibs especially the episode Miri which is very similar to this movie and the adults also were the ones that were killed off while the children lived very long lives, but eventually they would grow up and get infected and die.
p.s. If you look very carefully in the distance during Heston's lonely travels through the city, you will see lots of traffic moving far in the distance.
Yeah, the Christ metaphor gets pretty strong, particularly Heston’s demise, which bookends the biblical reference in the film’s title nicely. However, the great Anthony Zerbe stole this show as Mathius, as far as I’m concerned. Heston seemed relatively bored throughout the whole thing, but Zerbe’s self-righteous post-apocalyptic messiah makes an impact without chewing too much scenery. His dialogue also has countercultural undercurrents of the era when the film was made, as his group of marauders was targeting The System really, not just modern tech, but he didn’t make it some sort of hippie zombie deal. Of all the films in Heston’s dystopian trilogy/cycle (“Planet of the Apes,” “Omega Man,” and “Soylent Green”), this is the weakest, but not for lack of trying. It’s the best of all the “I Am Legend” film adaptations. (Many like the Vincent Price version, but as a lifelong Price fan, I simply could not get into it, as Price’s acting strengths are tied to interactions with other people, so he and the whole tale seemed dull and uncompelling.)
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The Last Ship
If you didn't watch it while it was on. I recommend a police procedural series called Cold Case.
I think I caught a few episodes while it was on air :)
That nice car , is a 1970 Ford XL
I dressed like one of the guys with the white hair for Halloween everybody thought it was an opal Loompa they just didn’t get it
The prisoner same composer
Indeed :)
Try to check out the 1979 DRACULA with Frank Langella somewhere in October. I am curious as to your reaction to it.
My Halloween list is extremely long, so the films are determined by Patreon, but I will add your vote!
a great movie. i just watched your dragon slayer vid, you mentioned liking merlin there is an UK 80's robin hood series i think you would enjoy Robin of Sherwood
I have seen a few episodes - fun show!
@@alexachipman did a bit of digging the compose of the soundtrack also worked on the prisoner not a thing i had connected until you mentioned it
I am legend is a remake of Omega man
Which in turn was a remake of the Last Man On Earth.
Put your hood up , I didn’t know you had one , Nice.
The Omega Man > I Am Legend
Even the Vincent Price Version Was Better Than I Am Legend.
If you enjoy this type of story you'd probably enjoy the series "Jeremiah".
Adore that series, I rewatch it every few years.
The Omega Man is a Hundred Times Better than the Will Smith Version.
My sole recollection of first watching this when I was young was "Geez, this is slow paced."
Anthony Zerbe was great. One of those under rated actors. Strange to see him as a bad guy. Played it well. This story is all too relevent today, with the vaccine wars.
Soylent green is people!!
Yes will smith did a reboot. all good👍
There is an interesting old TV movie from 1974 called "Where have all the people gone?" starring Peter Graves, Kathleen Quinlan and George O'Hanlon. It tells the story of a scientifically curious family that while they are deep cave diving solar flares affect everybody and turn them basically to dust. The family comes out and have to figure out what's going on and try to make it back home to find their mother who headed home ahead of them.
It's a really good little movie that I believe was a pilot for a potential series that never sold.
I saw it in 1974 and it is always stuck with me. It's funny to see how many movies since then follow similar beats.
Here's a link that's on CZcams...
czcams.com/video/39GjSbiMzXY/video.html