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Panic in Year Zero/The Last Man on Earth [DVD] [1962] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Price: £3.53
Average customer rating: 4.0

Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792865940
ISBN : 0792865944
Label : MGM
Manufacturer : MGM
Publisher : MGM
Release date : 2005-09-20
Title : Panic in Year Zero/The Last Man on Earth [DVD] [1962] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 18 years and over
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 1962-01-01
Region code : 1
Running time : 179
Studio : MGM
Theatrical releaseDate : 1962-07-05
MPN : MGMD1006770D

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-08-21 rating:

No Italian Language Audio Track!
About "The Last Man On Earth": this could help customers from abroad... br /The video transfer is OK but the original italian audio track does not appear at all on this release...!

review by: Baccante date: 2008-01-01 rating:

Overlooked classic
It is a constant source of amazement to me that Last Man On Earth has not enjoyed a renaissance amongst the horror community, as one is greatly over due! br /This film, pure and simple, is a classic! Now you won't get many reviewers, either professional or amataur, putting their name to such a claim. This, possibly, is because people don't want to look unknowledgable: to go against the status quo in either direction (eg, to claim 2001 was cack [no I don't think it is, incidentally], or to say LMOE is great) ivites derision from a staid and unyielding mind set. br /It may be said that the lack of budget shows through, or other similar trifles may be focussed on, but in the end LMOE is a pioneering example of the genre, from it's european style of filming, which lends to the film a refreshing 'otherness' and not a little grace, to the lack of any romantic counterpart for the title character, to the unrelenting emotional rawness and downbeat finale. br /A few years later another film came out, one that was eventually hailed as a classic despite its minor faults. Upon viewing that film and LMOE one could easily draw the conclusion that LMOE pre-empted most of the points that granted the later flick classic status. The newer film was Night Of The Living Dead. Go watch them side by side and you'll see what I mean. br /Perhaps with the Will Smith version of this tale doing well at the box office LMOE will finally recieve the attention it so richly deserves.

review by: date: 2007-12-14 rating:

Two good looks at life after the Apocalypse...
Despite the author's well-known dislike of it, The Last Man On Earth is surprisingly good version of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, and makes a fascinating comparison with Chuck's insanely enjoyable version The Omega Man. It may have less action, a much lower budget, a score considerably less funky than Ron Grainer's, and what looks like the suburbs around Rome's Cinecitta Studios standing in for the USA, but it offers a much more disturbing account of civilisation gradually breaking down around its powerless hero (a restrained and very convincing Vincent Price). And for anyone familiar with the remake, the even bleaker ending here is a real surprise. Recommended - it's not an all-time great, but it's well worth a look. br / br /MGM/UA's Region 1 NTSC DVD's 2.35:1 widescreen black and white transfer is superb - easily the best on the market of this much-issued title - with a six-minute interview with Richard Matheson as the only extra. br / br /So too is Ray Milland's forgotten post-Apocalyptic directorial effort Panic in Year Zero!, which takes a surprisingly sober and convincing look at the possible effects of an unexpected nuclear attack on the survivors. Confusion and denial gradually give way to a determination to survive at any price, as Milland's family everyman, so busy looking for the darkness in others he doesn't see it in himself, takes charge with a coldly logical determination to put his family first that naturally leads to cold-blooded murder. Yet he's not a maniacal stereotype: he genuinely thinks he's helping society survive by separating himself from it and keeping any other survivors at gunpoint, insisting "The law will be back. I just want us to survive until it does" as he moves further from it and what's left of civilization. br / br /Being a low-budget AIP movie, the action is confined to the hills and mountain roads, but it's an effective and fairly unsensationalized look at the All-American post-nuclear family. Curiously the film's original trailer shows it may have been darker still, with deleted footage of one of the film's female victims all too eager to kill her tormentors, one of whom is seen sniffing her clothing while impassively watching an attack - the film itself is rather more subtle! The only extra on MGM/UA's Region 1 NTSC DVD is the trailer, but once again the 2.35:1 widescreen black and white transfer is superb. br /

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