The Last Man on Earth (DVD, 2004)

I've often heard that this was the film that inspired George Romero to make Night of the Living Dead and now having finally watched The Last Man on Earth, I can absolutely see why. NOTLD is really LMOE only done better.

Vincent Price, never known for passing up a chance to ham it up, gives one of his very few restrained performance as the sole survivor of a worldwide plague that revives its victims as bloodthirsty vampires. During the day, he canvasses his abandoned hometown, tracking down and stalking his former friends and neighbors, always making sure to return before nightfall, when the dead rise to assault his fortified house with its boarded up windows and doors festooned with garlic and mirrors (the vampires hate their own reflections, a nice touch). Hope arrives in the form of an apparently normal young woman (Franca Bettoia), but her agenda proves to be even more sinister than that of the vampires. A bit creaky and obviously made for next to nothing, this is still an enjoyable film that deserves its status as a flawed cult classic.