(Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.)”The Last Man on Earth,” the first film adaptation of Richard Matheson’s watershed 1954 vampire novel, “I Am Legend,” has the feel of a midnight movie, something you’d maybe catch on TV in letterboxed form back when AMC still trafficked more in “American Movie Classics” than hour-long dramas like “The Walking Dead.” Whether it be the out-of-sync dubbing of this Italian co-production, the surreal black-and-white image of a character donning…The post Year of the Vampire: The Last Man on Earth Was the Vampire Gateway to the Zombie Apocalypse appeared first on /Film.
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