Stream it now The Omega Man 1971

 

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TERRIFIED ME BEYOND REASON when I was 5years old. The Family and THEIR EYES!!! THE FAMILY Terrorized me all through the entire 90+ minutes of the film and just at the end I got so scared I turned the tv off in front of my brother (aged 9).

In those days you had to wait for the tv to heat-back-up when you turned it of and on and my brother missed the end of the movie. ha ha ha ha.
not so funny an incident in May of 1976, though.


Of course people today call it a "typical 70s flick" and contemporary reviewers would see it as a "B-Movie" that goes no where.

HOWEVER, when you see The Right Movie at Precisely The Right Time in your life, it sticks with you forever.

I love the music and have both soundtracks (the 1999 version and the 2006 version):
PIANO and guitar for LISA'S THEME
RICHIE has full orchestra
A "WATER BELL" is used for shocking parts
and THE OMEGA MAN'S theme is brassy and melancholy.

unlike what ROGER EBERT says, THE FAMILY is not a bunch of "disorganized ghouls." THE FAMILY is a post-apocalyptic mutated-sect of people led by a charismatic leader named Mathias.

Charlton Heston is Neville who serves as a Messianic figure to the "non-tertiary-staged" humans.
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no, its not "better than the book;" THE OMEGA MAN is different from "the book" and has been updated to reflect the ongoing conflicts occurring in 1971 AMERICA:

BLACK POWER was still strong after Matin Luther King's assissation 2 years before the film's release.

THE CHARLES MANSON FAMILY similar to homicidal THE FAMILY in THE OMEGA MAN had recently slaughtered SHARON TATE a year before principle-photography.

THE VIETNAM CONFLICT had gone into "POST-TET OFFENSIVE" by THE OMEGA MAN'S production.

kids today only can see THE OMEGA MAN as a typical '70s flick because the kids of today were born in the mid-eighties and early-1990s.

oh boy here we go again: KIDS TODAY have no clue what it was like 40 and 50 years ago--pre-STAR WARS, pre-cell phone, pre-internet (as we know it today), pre-dvd, pre-blu-ray.

"a typical 70s flick" like THE OMEGA MAN of course would fail with audiences of today.

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but . . . I AM LEGEND with WILL SMITH is further from "the book" than THE OMEGA MAN.

THE LAST MAN ON EARTH with VINCENT PRICE is the best adaption yet suffers severely from low production values.

THE OMEGA MAN rules!!!!!!

Typical 70s flick. Whether or not that's a good thing is up to you. Overall a decent film with an interesting portrayal of the human psyche.

Its like a mediocre mix between the book I am Legend with the mutans from the Planet of the Apes. Still its not bad, but not good neither.

6/10 Before Charlton Hesston Sci-Fi Trilogy (Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green and The Omega Man) this type of movies were seen as second class movies with second class actors. The Omega Man, about a man living alone after a bacterial holocaust is the weakest of these three movies, while the director originally depict a lone city in takes that later would be emulated in movies like I am legend or 28 days later, the story lack of emotional or legendary moments makes this movie a little bad in comparison to other movies that treat these theme. The albino mutants are not scary enough or evil enough to be ultra scary, they are just a bunch of extremist humans. I think this movie really made a contribution to cinema but it feels to outdated.

The omega man is the remake of the classic the last man on earth this follows the plot of a man that survives bio warfare Overall I liked the movie and still i call this a classic

OK so hew's the last man on earth, so far so sci-fi.

Wait, if he's the last man on earth who are those guys throwing rocks at his window? Shouldn't he be scared?

Oh right ok, just some street thugs.

Oh they're vampires? Why are they all wearing really cheap sunglasses?

OK a bit of a chase, oh good, it's getting tense. What is this, 70s cop show music!?!? A black chick with an afro and an attitude problem?

No, no, no. This movie does almost everything wrong. The music is totally wrong, it's always too upbeat and hippie. Charlton Heston is great though.

Decent enough movie with some good action, but the effects are pretty dated, so only watch this movie if you're looking for some escapism.

Barely fresh for me. The Omega Man, was a good movie, but some of the elements were just cheesy and ridiculous. I haven't read the book (and I don't really feel right about reviewing the movie anyway after watching I Am Legend), so I don't know what the "vampires" were supposed to be like, but I did not like the fact that they were some sort of cult. Some things about it just didn't make much sense. The vampires had some sort of mind control powers because of the disease, some people have certain "immunities", etcetera, etcetera. What I really liked about it was Charlton Heston's performance, because he is just plain cool in this movie. I think that, even for the early 70's, this movie still had much more potential, but wasn't a failure either.

A Sci-Fi Movie with a great Charlton Heston about a Society where everybody over 30 were killed to hold the Society young