I Am Legend

I Am Legend 1954 science fiction / horror novel by Richard Matheson about the last man lives in Los Angeles. It should be noted that influence the development of modern vampire genre, and the zombie genre, in the dissemination of the concept of the apocalypse, a TV fiction in the world, because of illness, and the concept of vampirism as a disease. The novel was a success and was for the movie as the last man on Earth in 1964 as The Omega METN 1971 and againte in 2007 as I Am Legend.

Later, some short stories to novels Matheson: Buried talent, in the vicinity of the Departed, Prey, the Witch Dance of the war dead, dressed in white silk, Mad House, funerals, places of the shadows, and the person to another.

I Am Legend is the story of Robert Neville, seemingly the only survivor of a viral pandemic apocalypse, the symptoms resemble that of the vampire. ENeville the author details about life in Los Angeles from January 1976 to January 1979, has tried to understand and eventually cure the disease that has killed humanity, which is immune. Neville in the past has shown, through flashbacks, emotional struggle as to the loss of their humanity is a course about the daily routine.

I Am Legend influence on the zombie genre and popularized the concept of illness to a diving suit apocalypse. Although classified is as social problem that the novel I Am Legend impressed on the zombie genre Cinematic as a director George A. Romero, which has acknowledged its influence and adaptation in 1964, the last man on earth, his film The Night of the Living Dead (1968). However, film critics pointed out the similarities between the Night of the Living Dead (1968) and the last man on Earth (1964).

Stephen King said: "Without Richard Matheson I would nott to" Film Critics pointed out that the British film 28 Days Later (2002) and its 28 to two weeks a kind of anger that the plague ravaging Britain, like I Am Legend . The consolidation of the Zombies and vampires as the product of infectious diseases or radiotherapy is now common, as in the Resident Evil series, 1984 B movie Night of the Comet...