The Omega Man [Blu-ray] starring
Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe,
Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo, Eric
Laneuville
The Omega Man
Science fiction took a grim turn in the 1970s--the heyday of Agent Orange,
nuclear peril, and Watergate. Suddenly, most of our possible futures took
on a last man on Earth flavor, with The Omega Man topping the doom-
struck heap. Charlton Heston plays the government researcher behind
the ultimate biological weapon, a deadly plague that has ravaged
humanity. There are two groups of survivors: a dwindling band of immune
humans and an infected, psychopathic mob of light-hating quasi-vampires.
The infected are led by Mathias, a clever, charismatic man set on
destroying the last remnants of the civilization that produced the plague.
Heston has a vaccine--but he and the few remaining normals are
outnumbered and outgunned. By day, he builds a makeshift version of the
nuclear family (with Rosalind Cash as his afro-wearing, gun-toting little
lady). They plan for the future while roaming freely through an empty urban
landscape, taking what few pleasures life has left. By night, they defend
themselves against the growing horde of plague victims. Both a bittersweet
romance and a gothic cautionary tale, The Omega Man paints a
convincing portrait of hope and despair. It aint pretty, but its a great movie.
--Grant Balfour
Features:
* Welcome to the future. Biological war has decimated life on Earth. Los
Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville tools his
convertible through sunlit streets foraging for supplies. And makes damn
sure he gets undercover before sundown, when other "inhabitants"
emerge.The Omega Man adapts Richard Mathesons novel I Am Legend
into a high-impact, high-tension saga of a fate not far remov
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 b e 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.
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