Technical data: Matheson's novel of 1954, classified as a horror-dystopia. 200 pages. Trailer: Robert is the last man on earth. She spends several hours a day to restore the fortifications in his small house, to keep the supplies of food provided. At sunset, the barricades, because the monsters come after dark. On alternate days, Robert goes hunting. By day and semincoscienti are weak, and when Stan, and very easy to kill. But others will replace the killed. And every night they come back.
Comment: The idea I like very much. Robert wanders through a deserted city and its disposal: a supermarket, a library .. But if it is master of this world day, must spend their nights under siege. 'Come out', the screaming. This alternation of roles (hunter / prey), which gives rhythm to a life guided only by instinct of survival, is perhaps the strength of the novel. Beyond good idea, the management itself is bad imho. A quarter of the book is spent telling the domestication of a dog. Evabbè. It then expires Hollywood horror 90s (not bad for a book of '54, but with zero originality for a reader today): the enemies are vampires, Robert isolates the 'germ of vampirism' (lol!) ..
Movies: In January will be released in the FILM 'loosely based'. Saw the trailer, I underline in red the 'free'. Unfortunately I fear it will come out a zuppone the 28-day-after-resident + evil + other b-horror movies. With cars that explode.
Rating: 6.5
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