Dave Taylor is a Bay Area filmmaker and producer of The Dead Report, a video podcast dead-icated to covering the zombie horror genre.

(L'ultimo uomo della terra). Once revivified as The Omega Man and soon to be flatlined as a mega-spectacle starring Will Smith, this deadpan feast of the undead just won't die. Nor should it. Based on Richard Matheson's highly digestible I Am Legend, you could say it was the first genuine zombie flick to rise from the grave-and it still feels as fresh as newly turned topsoil. With bloodless restraint, Vincent Price plays Morgan, “l'ultimo uomo,” as his Italian producers called him. A vampiric virus has swept the globe, wasting all in its wake. Those who weren't incinerated in the hideous “Pit” are doomed to rise again, lusting for-and I'm gonna go out on a limb here-body parts to rend. Miraculously immune, Morgan is holed up in suburbia: by day, he forages through the last scraps of Western Civ; by night, he repels the onslaught of the undead. Being the last man on earth is a lonely fate, but it sure beats joining those deadheads on the front lawn.