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I Am Legend is the product of an anxious artistic mind working in an anxious cultural climate. However, it is also a playful take on an old archetype, the vampire (the reader is even treated to Neville's reading and put-down of Bram Stoker 's Dracula ).
Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres.. He is best known as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 science fiction horror novel that has been adapted for the screen three times.
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The film differs from the novel (and the previous film) in several ways. [5] [6] In the novel, humanity is destroyed by a bacterial plague spread by bats and mosquitoes, which turns the population into vampire-like creatures; whereas, in this film version, biological warfare is the cause of the plague that kills most of the population by asphyxiation and turns most of the rest into nocturnal ...
The inclusion of songs written by the Cure and Joy Division are notable because the influences of both bands are present in the original comic book. James O'Barr , the creator of The Crow , reprinted the lyrics to the song " The Hanging Garden " by the Cure on an entire page, and some chapters of the comic book are named after Joy Division ...
Bloodflowers is the eleventh studio album by English rock band The Cure.It was first released in Japan on 2 February 2000, [2] before being released in the UK and Europe on 14 February 2000 and then the day after in the US by Fiction Records and Polydor Records.
I Am Legend was released on December 14, 2007, in the United States and Canada. It opened to the largest-ever box office (not adjusted for inflation) for a non-Christmas film released in the U.S. in December and was the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2007 , earning $256 million domestically and $329 million internationally for a total of $585 ...
Film adaptations of I Am Legend, a 1954 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror novel written by Richard Matheson about the catastrophic aftermath of a global vampirism pandemic, eventually inspiring many more zombie apocalypse stories such as the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead