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Storyline
Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling themselves "The Family". The plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as homicidally psychotic. They believe science and technology to be the cause of the war and their punishment, and Neville, as the last symbol of science, the old world, and a "user of the wheel", must die. Neville, using electricity, machinery, and science attempts to hold them at bay. Written by
Roald E. Peterson III <slz13@cc.usu.edu>
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Pray for the last man alive. Because he's not alone.
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Trivia
The TV newscaster reporting about the spreading of the disease in Neville's flashback is Matthias before getting infected and becoming the leader of The Family.
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Goofs
In the "...no phone ringing..." scene, Neville says "...it's almost dark..." and the sun is shown low in the sky, but as he drives home the sun casts a shadow from nearly overhead; just artificially dimmed.
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Quotes
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first lines]
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the last man on earth wrecks his car]
Robert Neville:
There's never a cop around when you need one.
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Crazy Credits
In the title, the "O" that starts the word "Omega" is actually replaced with the Greek letter Omega.
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Connections
Featured in
Monster Mania (1997)
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"'Round Midnight"
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This movie rocks, right from the opening scene where our hero leaps from his car and sprays mutants with a machine gun, to the final frame where... but enough of that. A great flick, one in a line of Charlton Heston post-apocalyptic movies. If you like this you'll love Soylent Green and, of course, the first two Apes films. Heston's like John Wayne in space. Nobody does it better. In this one disease-ravaged mutants stand in for the hippies- that fixes up society's problem with the riff raff, and Charlton has an inter-racial relationship. So there are mixed messages. Charlton Heston chews the scenery in every frame. Oh well, damn you all to hell.