Yet it is hampered by impoverished production values, location shooting in Rome (rarely mistaken for its L.A. Unsurprisingly, given Mathesons involvement, The Last Man on Earth as we know it Statesideis by far the most faithful version. Leicester, prompting Matheson to put his Logan Swanson pseudonym on the script, and filmed in Italy as LUltimo Uomo della Terra, with Vincent Price being directed by his agents brother, Sidney Salkow. In the event, that version was rewritten once again by William F. Hammer sold the project to its sometime U.S. Their planned version, The Night Creatures, was to have been directed by Val Guest, but hit a brick wall when the censors on both sides of the Atlantic decreed that Mathesons script (included in his collection Visions Deferred ), if filmed as written, would be banned. It doesnt stop with I Am Legend, because Anne Rice and Chris Carter have cited Mathesons Dress of White Silk and his original Night Stalker as influences upon the Vampire Chronicles and The X-Files, respectivelybut I digress. It has been compared to such apocalyptic fiction as Justin Cronins The Passage, and clearly made its mark on Stephen King, who has noted that my first bestseller was an unauthorized novelization of Mathesons Pit and the Pendulum (1961) printed in his basement. Romeros Night of the Living Dead (1968), it was at least indirectly responsible for the entire zombie subgenre as we know it today.
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