The Last Man on Earth

The Last Man

On Earth (1954)

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“there's no

escape from

Vincent Price”

—Scott Heim

“The Death of

Vincent Price”

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Bleak as Pasolini—

Kitschy as Sergio Leone

Decadent as Visconti

There’s no escape—

For the Vampire-Zombies

Of Living Dead Rome

Shots of dead bodies—

Strewn in the empty

Streets of the Roma

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The alarm clock rings—

It’s morning once again

Time for Vincent to rise

“Another day” she says—

“Another day to live thru

Better get started”

Thus begins one—

of the most tacky horror

films of Vincent’s oeuvre

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When a disease turns—

All of humanity into a

Nightmare of Living dead…

Much deader than usual—

Poor bored humans around

The putrid dead dying world

It becomes Vincent Price’s—

Stake-plunging Responsibility

To DeZombiefy the Planet

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The Last Man on Earth—

Has to reluctantly become

Limp-Wristed Vampire Killer!!!

Yes, my dears, as Night falls—

The plague victims begin

Leaving their stinking graves

Crawling, shambling, limping—

Whimpering, pleading for blood

Throughout the empty streets

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The Hellish Undead—

Zombies starved for blood

Thirsting for Vincent Price’s bod

The Last Gimpy Man on Earth—

Lisping, mincing his way thru

One of his most tacky movies

But this time Vincent won’t—

Escape the Living Dead!!!

Like in all those Poe Classics

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Spectral Rome drained dry—

Ancient abandoned Sinful City

Stalked by greedy Bloodsuckers!!!

There’s no escape for Vincent—

“Vincent come on out now!!!”

Comes the Creepy Nightly Chant

Ubaldo Ragona directs this—

Classic Long before the American

Rotten cheap Hollywood version

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Nobody can compare with—

Vincent Price, certainly not

Crummy Charlton Heston

The Omega Man version—

Stinks worse than the ugly

Cheap Zombie-Vampire Dead

The Last Man on Earth filmed—

In dismal black & white shots

Of decadent postwar Rome

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Produced by the horror queen—

Samuel Z. Arkoff with a cast of

Millions of Unemployed Italians

The Zombie Cast reads like a—

Spaghetti Western with names

Like Franca Bettoia, Danieli,

Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Umberto

Raho, Antonio Corevi, Ettore

Ribotta, Rolando De Rossi,

Giuseppe Mattei, De Fonseca,

Gen Ruggiero, Franca Silvi,

Giorgio Giovannini, Brunell…

Serena Ulloa, Angiolina

Menichelli, Piero Mecacci,

Linello Meucci, Vico Vaccaro,

Luciano Volpato, Carlo

Grandone, Enzo Silvestri,

Armando Timpani, Bruno

Zanoli, Alfonso Avincola,

Angelo Lannutti, Alvaro

Lanzoni, Renato Pedrini,

Federico Tocci, Carmen

Frosali, Alfonso D’Artega,

Rita Agostini, Franco Rispoli,

Ermete Santini, etc. etc.

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And of course the great—

Hollywood Horror Queen

Vincenti De Pricella herself!!!

“December 1965? Is that all—

It’s been since I inherited the

world? Only three years!!!”

“Seems like 100 million—

You're freaks, all of you!

All of you, freaks, mutations!”