Welcome to Subterranean Cinema , The perfect place to watch classic movies originating from your hometown TV station, PBS Fort Wayne.

I'm your host, Kris Hensler.

And tonight I am joined once again by Jane Martin.

So, Jane, thanks for coming back to the basement hideaway.

Why don't you remind people what you do when you're not hanging out down here with us?

I teach film at the University of Saint Francis and watch a lot of old movies.

That seems cool.

I like that.

And just in case you're new to Subterranean Cinema , it's our very own version of classic movie night.

Every week I come down to the basement and look around for another great classic movie.

We knock the dust off of it.

We do a little research.

In this case, Jane does a lot of research.

And away we go with her classic movie night.

Jane, why don't you tell the viewers when and where they can tune in?

It all starts off on Saturday at 8 p.m. on the Explore Channel, then again at midnight on the main channel and then finally on Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m.. Also on the main channel.

Thanks for inviting me.

I really enjoyed this film.

Of course.

So let's get into it.

The Last Man on Earth was produced in 1964 and details a deadly plague that afflicts the entire planet and turns survivors into vampires.

Except for Robert Morgan, played here by Vincent Price.

He's a scientist who is somehow immune to the plague.

Morgan's daily routine is to clear the streets of dead bodies and to seek out the vampires.

Morgan may be the last man on earth, but he is far from alone.

This film is based on the novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.

Matheson wrote many excellent screenplays and television shows such as The Twilight Zone episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.” He adopted five of Edgar Allan Poe stories for the Roger Corman films in the 1960s, and most of those movies starred Vincent Price, The Last Man on Earth is the first cinematic adaptation of Matheson's classic novel, I Am Legend.

Matheson's book brought something fresh and exciting to the horror genre.

Both Stephen King and George Romero have cited as a big inspiration in their own work.

The Last Man on Earth is the most faithful adaptation of Matheson's story and enjoys a much better reputation today than it did upon its initial release.

It's a lower budget film shot in Italy, and all the dialog has been dubbed for the Italian actors.

Vincent Price is excellent at playing a lonely man, haunted by his memories and the life he had before the Vampire Plague.

This film has a strange, alienating quality that illustrates the devastation of a plague and the desire to survive.

This film greatly influenced George Romero when he was planning Night of the Living Dead , which came out in 1968.

Yes.

And there are other adaptations of the story, such as The Omega Man in 1971 with Charlton Heston and I Am Legend , starring Will Smith, which came out in 2007.

However, these films are not as true to the book as the Vincent Price version.

To more accurately show how grueling it was for the character to survive.

Vincent Price insisted on lifting real people into the back of his car instead of dummies.

That is why it seems he's taking extra care with the bodies.

For some scenes, however, he's handling dummies for obvious reasons, as you'll see.

What is so powerful about the film's story is what Morgan learns about himself and how the story questions if he really is the last man on earth or a monster.

I tell you, Jane, I am more than ready to see this film.

The Omega Man was one of my favorites growing up, and this will be my first time seeing this version of the story.

All right, then.

So what's your line?

Let's go with the popcorn portion of drinks and settle in for a night at the movies with The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price.

Nicely done, Jane.

You're watching Subterranean Cinema only on PBS Fort Wayne.

(soft orchestral music) (film rolling) (upbeat orchestral music) (slow haunting music) (alarm bell rings) >> Robert: Another day to live through.

Better get started.

(climatic orchestral music) December, 1965.

Is that all it has been since I inherited the world?

Only three years?

Seems like a 100 million.

(climatic orchestral music) (moves into slower orchestral music) (generator humming) (liquid chugging) (slow orchestral music) The eye on the world.

An empty, dead, silent world.

(slow orchestral music) More of them for the pit.

Every day there are more of them.

They live off the weak ones and leave them for the pit.

(slow orchestral music) >> K-O-K-W calling.

Come in.

(loud shrieking tone and static) K-O-K-W calling.

I'm on international frequency.

Come in.

(loud shrieking tone and static) (slow orchestral music) >> Robert: They can't bear to see their image.

It repels them.

I need more mirrors, and this garlic's lost its pungency.

(slow orchestral music) There was a time when eating was pleasurable.

Now it bores me.

Just fuel for survival.

I'll settle for coffee and orange juice this morning.

But first there's my life to consider.

I'd better replace that garlic.

(slow orchestral music) I'll need more.

Lots more.

Better stop off and get 'em.

(slow orchestral music) (loud crash) I can't afford the luxury of anger.

Anger can make me vulnerable.

It can destroy my reason and reason's the only advantage I have over them!

I've got to find where they hide during the day.

Uncover every one of them.

Now where did I finish off yesterday?

Madison Street to 31st Avenue.

11 kills.

Over three years.

And there's more than half the city I haven't searched.

(quick rattling) (moves into slower rattling) They're perfect.

Just wide enough to keep the flesh apart so their body seal can't function.

And how many more of these will I have to make before they're all destroyed?

They want my blood.

It's their lives or mine.

I still get squeamish.

(slow haunting orchestral music) Wait, that garlic.

I'd better put it back where it belongs, but I can't leave a heartbeat away from hell.

Forget it.

(slow haunting orchestral music) (moves into faster haunting music) I'm out of gas.

That means one more stop I'll have to make.

(slow orchestral music) (engine revs up) (engine revs up) (slow orchestral music) I can get rid of them later.

Right now I'm out of gas.

(slow orchestral music) (slow orchestral music) (slow foreboding music) (engine revs up) (climatic orchestral music) (climatic orchestral music) (can clanking) (climatic orchestral music) (loud explosion) (engine revs up) (slow orchestral music) (objects clinking and shuffling) (haunting orchestral music) (machine humming) (slow haunting orchestral music) (slow suspenseful music) It's still fresh.

But I'll take only what I need.

They've gotta last.

(slow orchestral music) (engine revs up) (tense orchestral music) (water splashes) They can wait, too.

I've got my life to worry about.

Those mirrors have to be replaced before dark.

(tense orchestral music) (moves into slower orchestral music) Square blocks to search.

How many of them still exist?

How long will I have to keep up this search?

(glass shattering) (slow haunting orchestral music) (tense orchestral music) (woman shrieks) (tense orchestral music) (man yells) (man gasps) (slow haunting orchestral music) (man yells) I haven't much time left.

It'll be dark in an hour.

(slow haunting orchestral music) (slow orchestral music) (door clicks) (door shuts) Now 12 long hours before the sun will rise and drive them back to darkness.

(paper shuffles) (faint jazz music) (moves into louder jazz music) (loud thump) >> Morgan!

(wood thumping) Come out!

(loud thump) Come out!

(loud thump) (glass shatters) (glass shatters) (jazz music) (loud thump) Morgan!

Come out!

Come out!

(loud bang) (loud bang) (jazz music) (loud bang and glass shatters) (loud bang) (loud bang) (loud bang and glass shatters) (loud bang) (loud bang) (jazz music) (record skipping) >> Robert: Bob, I can't see!

I can't see!

Bob!

(record skipping) >> Robert: Another day.

Another day to start all over again.

(light switch clicks) (loud rattling) (slow haunting orchestral music) (moves into faster tense orchestral music) (moves into slower orchestral music) (slow orchestral music) >> Virge.

Virge.

God, how I miss you.

(melancholy orchestral music) >> Robert: The sun's already set.

They'll be everywhere.

(climatic orchestral music) (moves into operatic eerie orchestral music) (moves into tense orchestral music) (operatic eerie orchestral music) (engine revs up) (climatic orchestral music) (tense orchestral music) >> Man: It's Morgan!

Get him!

(brakes squeal) (tense orchestral music) >> Ah!

(engine revs up) (brakes squeal) (tense orchestral music) (engine revs up) (tense orchestral music) (loud bang) (tense orchestral music) >> Man: Ow!

(loud bang) (man yells) Ow!

Ow!

(operatic eerie orchestral music) (loud banging and thumping) (man groans) >> Man: Do you hear?

Morgan!

(wood thumping) (slow orchestral music) (film reel clicking) (slow orchestral music) (moves into haunting orchestral music) (laughs quietly) (laughs more loudly) (laughs very loudly) (laughs louder) (loud thumps) (laughs louder) (laughs uncontrollably) (laugh turns into crying) (loud thump) (loud thumps and glass shatters) (loud thump) >> Man: Morgan!

Do you hear, Morgan?

(loud thumps) Morgan!

(loud thumps and bangs) Do you hear, Morgan?

(loud thumps) >> Three years.

(slow orchestral music) (moves into gentle playful music) (children talking and laughing) >> One, two, three, four, five, six, seven!

But you're wrong.

>> Hey Virge, Virge?

>> Yes?

Oh no, my makeup!

My hair (laughs)!

(Robert laughs) >> Hey, where is everybody?

All I can see- >> Hi, Ben.

>> Oh!

>> I can hear children, but I can't see any children.

>> Uncle Ben!

Uncle Ben!

>> Children: Hey, look at all those presents!

>> Uncle Ben, Uncle Ben!

>> Cathy!

>> Uncle Ben!

What did you bring me?

>> Open them and see, open them and see.

>> Oh, come, come.

>> Boy: Come and open them, Cathy.

(children talking) >> Take a look at this.

>> It's highly theoretical, Ben.

>> Theoretical?

Do I have to remind you that theory is the beginning of solution?

>> "Is Europe's disease carried on the wind?"

Is it, Ben?

>> Could be.

>> And if it is?

>> It isn't, Virge.

>> Is that what you really think or just what you'd like to think?

>> I cannot except half-baked theories that sell newspapers.

I'm a scientist, not an alarmist.

>> You're whistling past the graveyard.

>> Is that a commentary on my work at the lab?

>> We both know how hard you've worked.

>> I'm sorry, Ben.

I just can't except the idea of universal disease.

>> Uncle Ben, you promised to show us card tricks.

>> All right, Cathy.

Who can resist that face (chuckles)?

All right, card tricks!

Card tricks!

>> Robert, is it possible this germ or virus could be airborne?

>> Anything is possible, Virge.

The best brains in the world have been running through this thing with a fine tooth comb.

The germ is visible under a microscope, but it's not like any bacilli I've ever known.

>> In what way?

>> It can't be destroyed by any process we've been able to uncover.

>> But with the whole world trying there must be a solution.

>> Cathy: Hey, Mommy!

Hey Mommy, when are you gonna cut the cake?

>> (laughs) Right now our problem is to cut that cake.

>> Cathy: Hey, Mommy!

Hey, Mommy!

>> Coming!

Coming!

(slow haunting orchestral music) (wind howls) (slow haunting orchestral music) (leaves rustling) (gentle orchestral music) (wind howls softly) (heavy breathing) >> The wind wake you up?

>> It always does.

>> How do you feel?

>> I'm all right.

>> Oh, don't get up, honey.

>> I'm not sick, Bob.

I'll make you breakfast.

>> You don't have to.

>> I'll be all right.

Go on and read your paper.

>> All right.

(Virge gasps) Oh Sweetheart, look, if you don't feel well please go back to bed.

>> I'm just a little tired, that's all.

I wish somebody would find a vaccine.

(Cathy wheezes) >> It's all we're working on at the lab, Virge.

Maybe you'd better not send her to school today.

>> All right.

You think you should go to work?

>> I have to.

>> Bob, Bob... Bob, I'm so frightened.

>> Everything's gonna be all right, sweetheart.

(Virge sobs) (Cathy wheezes) (car honks) >> Well?

>> The bacilli are multiplying.

>> That kicks the bone marrow theory in the head.

>> This specimen shows a higher white count than when I put it on the slide.

Those cells are still living, Dr. Mercer, off one another.

>> There has to be an answer.

You've heard that all communications are ended outside the continental limits?

>> Yes, I heard.

>> That leaves it in our laps.

So we keep trying.

Where's Cortman?

>> Well, he should be here by now.

>> You two stay on this virus theory until I decide it's exhausted.

>> Right.

>> Yes, sir?

>> Morgan will fill you in.

>> All right, sir.

And what did the great man of science have to say today?

More of the usual?

>> Oh, he's trying, Ben, just like the rest of us.

>> And nothing works.

The streets are swarming with truckloads of bodies that they're throwing into that God-awful pit.

And the dedicated Dr. Mercer goes on with his plotting unimaginative approach.

>> You have a better idea?

>> Maybe.

At least it involves imagination.

>> Ben, it's as simple as this.

An unknown germ is being blown around the world.

It's highly contagious and it's reached plague proportions.

>> And you don't believe some of the dead have come back?

>> Now let's get to work.

>> And why are they burning the bodies?

Why don't they bury them?

>> Because it's the best known way to control the contagion to keep the germ from spreading.

>> That's what we've always believed at any rate.

>> You'd prefer us to believe in vampires?

>> If they exist, yes.

There are stories being told, Bob.

>> By people who are out of their minds with fear!

>> Maybe.

But there are too many to be just coincidental.

Stories about people who have died and have come back.

>> They're stories, Ben, stories!

>> And why are the infected people always so tired in the daytime?

Why can't they stand the sunlight?

Why are they only seen at night?

>> Come here.

Look.

>> I know as well as- >> Look!

Now is this bacilli, or isn't it?

>> It doesn't alter- >> And this bacilli is found in the blood of every infected person, or isn't it?

>> To show me germs is not to refute these stories, Bob.

The point is, if there are vampires they exist in spite of these germs.

>> Come on, let's get to work.

(slow orchestral music) >> And until further notice this station will continue its around the clock coverage of this national disaster.

And now, we switch you to the state capitol where His Excellency, the Governor, is speaking from the executive mansion.

>> Further, I have, in conjunction with the federal government declared this state to be a disaster area.

The public health is dependent on bodies of the deceased being burned.

You must notify the health department immediately if you have a plague victim in your home.

Under no circumstances should you gather publicly.

In view of the dire emergency that exists, I intend- (clicks) >> Anything new?

>> Huh?

No, nothing new.

Nothing.

(wind howls) (leaves rustle) >> Mommy, where are you?

Mommy, I can't see.

(Cathy gulps) >> I'm going to call the doctor.

>> I said no.

Virge, there's nothing they can do.

>> Oh, but we can't just let her lie there.

>> Well, this way she has a chance.

If you call a doctor, he'll report it.

Do you want that?

>> Mommy, help me.

Mommy.

Mommy, please help me!

Mommy, help me!

>> How can you be so sure she's- >> Blindness is one of the symptoms.

You're not to call a doctor under any circumstances.

No one is to come into this house.

Now remember that.

>> Mommy.

Mommy.

Mommy, where are you?

>> I've got to pick Ben Cortman up on the way to the...

The lab.

No one is to come into this house.

Now remember that!

>> Yes.

(door clicks open and shuts) >> Oh, ah!

>> Woman: (screams) Oh, no!

No, no, please!

No!

No, please let him be buried in peace!

Please, for God's sake, don't take him away like this!

You can't!

You can't!

(sobs) (slow orchestral music) (moves into tense music) >> Ben: Who's there?

>> It's me, Ben, we're late.

(wind howls) Ben, what's the matter with you?

>> Nothing, and I'm going to keep it that way.

>> Ben, look, let's talk about this.

>> There's nothing to talk about.

You think I'm out of my mind.

You laughed at me and my theory.

You might be one of them!

>> Ben, look, you're ill. You ought to see a doctor.

>> No doctors.

You take care of your life.

I'll take care of mine.

Now get away from here.

You understand?

Get away from here!

(slow orchestral music) (sirens wail in distance) (motorcycle sputters) (sirens get louder) (slow orchestral music) >> If you're looking for anybody but me, forget it.

>> Are they all gone?

>> That's right.

>> Is there any hope from the latest reports?

>> No, not yet.

But believe me, Morgan, we'll find an answer.

>> When, doctor?

We need it right now!

I need it!

>> You're the only one who wasn't afraid to come here today.

>> What's gonna happen, Dr. Mercer?

Is everybody in the world gonna die before someone finds the answer?

>> No, I don't think so.

I don't deny there's some strange evolutionary process going on, but mankind won't be destroyed.

The fact that you and I are working here today is evidence of that.

(slow haunting orchestral music) (door shuts) (truck engine revs up) >> Robert: All right, let's roll.

(truck engine grows louder) (slow haunting orchestral music) (moves into tense music) >> When?

When?

>> I called a doctor.

I had to.

>> I told you not to call anyone!

>> Bob, she was blind.

She couldn't see.

She kept reaching out her hands, groping for me.

Then all of a sudden, she was gone (sobs).

And they came and I tried to stop them and they took her.

>> I saw a truck out there.

Was that it?

Was it?

>> Yes!

(climatic orchestral music) (Virge cries) (door slams) (flames crackling) (tense orchestral music) >> Man: I'm sorry, lady, there's nothing I can do.

Let that truck through!

Get out of the way!

(sirens wailing) Get back folks!

Nobody's allowed out there!

Please, all of you!

Get behind those lines!

Look sharp there.

Move, move along!

(sirens wail) Make way for that truck!

This way!

Hey you, mister!

Come back!

Come back!

(climatic orchestral music) (flames crackling) >> Did this truck just come in from Market Street?

I said did this truck just come in from Market Street!

>> Mister, I don't know!

(climatic orchestral music) >> Hey, you don't belong in here.

Get out!

I said get out!

>> I want my daughter!

>> Mister, a lot of daughters are in there, including my own.

(tense orchestral music) (flames crackling) (tense orchestral music) (wind howls) >> Virge: Bob!

Bob, I can't see!

I can't see!

Bob!

>> Virge!

(melancholy orchestral music) (melancholy orchestral music) Virge.

Oh.

(wind howls) No.

I won't let them put you there, Virge.

I promise.

I won't let them put you there.

(wind howls) (engine humming) (slow orchestral music) (brakes squeal) (melancholy orchestral music) (moves into tense music) (glass clinks) >> Virge: Let me in.

Let me in.

Let me in.

Let me in.

Let me in!

(heavy footsteps) Let me in!

Let me in!

(banging on door) (knocking and rattling) >> Who is it?

Who's there?

(knocking and rattling) (door clicks) (climatic orchestral music) >> Robert!

(haunting operatic orchestral music) Robert!

Robert!

(haunting operatic orchestral music) Robert!

(moves into slower orchestral music) (knocking and banging) (loud knocking and banging) >> Morgan!

We're going to kill you, Morgan.

(loud crashes) Morgan!

Do you hear?

Morgan!

(loud bang and crash) Morgan!

Do you hear, Morgan?

Morgan!

(loud crash) Do you hear, Morgan?

(eerie orchestral music) (moves into slow orchestral music) (slow haunting orchestral music) >> Robert: If Cortman thinks he can get to me by destroying my car his wits are getting dull.

(loud clink) This convertible would be nice.

Probably handles well.

But I can't think of comfort.

There was a time when I shopped for a car.

Now I'm looking for a hearse.

This station wagon will have to do.

(slow orchestral music) (playful gentle orchestral music) (dog whimpers) (moves into lively orchestral music) >> It's alive.

Alive.

It's alive!

(gentle playful orchestral music) Wait, don't run away!

Come back here!

Don't run away!

(melancholy orchestral music) Come back!

Come back here!

>> Robert: Wherever he is, I've got to find him.

If I have to search every street, every house, every alley, every inch of this town I've got to find him.

(moves into slower orchestral music) >> Come back!

(claps) Hey boy, where are you?

(claps loudly) Where are you, pal?

Come here!

(slow orchestral music) >> Robert: They're dead.

They've been staked.

(loud thumps) But these are made of iron.

Not wood, like mine.

Someone else is alive in this world.

But where are they?

Where are they hiding?

(slow orchestral music) How many are there?

Where did they come from?

Why haven't I seen them?

(loud click) >> This is Robert Morgan.

If somebody can hear me, answer me.

For God's sake, answer me!

(loud high pitch tone) This is K-O-K-W calling.

K-O-K-W calling!

Answer me!

(loud high pitch tone) (dog whimpers) (dog whimpers) (gentle orchestral music) (dog whimpers) So you finally decided to come back.

Very good.

Good boy.

Oh, no.

Don't worry, boy.

You're gonna be all right.

Yes, you are.

(gentle orchestral music) (moves into haunting orchestral music) There now, we've got ya all cleaned up.

Hm?

(laughs) You're gonna feel better.

Gonna put you down here now and you can rest, hm?

I've got ya all cleaned up.

There, you can rest.

(knocking) Oh.

(loud thumps) (dog whimpers) (loud knocking) (dog whimpers) (loud knocking) You know they're out there, don't ya?

You poor, driven thing.

Everything's gonna be all right.

Nobody's going to hurt you.

Everything's gonna be all right.

All right.

You're gonna get better.

We're gonna have lots of happy times together.

You'll see everything's going to be fine.

(dog barks softly) (gentle orchestral music) (moves into haunting orchestral music) (laughs loudly) What's the use?

(gentle orchestral music) (moves into haunting orchestral music) (moves into gentle orchestral music) (loud scraping thump) (gentle orchestral music) Wait, I'm not gonna hurt you.

Can't you understand?

Wait!

(climatic orchestral music) Wait!

I'm not going to hurt you.

Wait!

Wait!

Wait!

I couldn't be out here in the daylight if I was one of them.

You know that they can't come out until sundown.

Do you want to come with me or do you want to face them?

(gentle orchestral music) (haunting orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music) (moves into slow haunting music) (moves into slow orchestral music) You feeling better?

>> Yes.

>> Would you like a cup of coffee?

>> Thank you.

You seem very well-organized here.

>> Yeah.

>> My name is Ruth Collins.

I was married.

I lost my husband.

You are alone?

You were married?

>> Yes.

>> Children?

>> A daughter.

>> What are you doing?

Please stop, please!

Stop it, please!

You're making me sick!

>> Why do you turn away?

>> Please!

>> Why do you turn away?

(Ruth coughs and gags) You are infected.

>> No!

>> Infected systems are allergic to garlic.

>> You think I'm one of them?

>> You will be.

>> You've made up your mind just because I- >> You can't change the facts by talking.

>> Facts?

What facts?

That I got sick?

I've had a sensitive stomach all my life.

I saw my husband killed.

Torn to pieces right in front of our house!

I've been wandering ever since.

Hiding at night.

Not eating more than scraps.

Sick with mourning.

Sick with fear!

Unable to sleep.

Then you shout at me.

You chase me across a field.

Hit me!

Dragged me to this house.

And to top it all when I get sick because you shove a piece of reeking garlic in my face you tell me I'm infected.

>> Where are you going?

>> Let me go!

>> You can't go out there, it's almost sunset.

>> Ruth: Let me go, I said.

>> You can't go out there now.

>> I don't care.

>> In a few minutes the streets will be full of them.

>> Let me go!

>> At least let me give you a blood test.

>> Don't touch me.

Don't touch me.

Don't touch me (sobs).

>> You must be hungry.

I'll fix you some dinner.

(heavy knocks) (heavy knocks) (heavy knocks and bangs) You know you should eat.

>> I can't.

(heavy knocks) (heavy knocks and bangs) You seem used to them.

>> Oh, as much as anybody could be.

I'm not frightened of them anymore if that's what you mean.

Oh, I protect myself against them but only because there's so many.

Individually they're weak.

Mentally incompetent like animals after a long famine.

If they weren't, they surely would have found a way of breaking in here a long time ago.

(heavy bang) >> Ben: Come out, Morgan!

>> Hear that?

That's Ben Cortman.

He was my friend.

>> Your friend?

>> He was like a kid brother.

If I could find him and destroy him... >> But you said he was your friend.

>> When I find him I'll drive a stake through him just like all the others.

>> But you lived through all this.

Do you know why?

>> Perhaps I was chosen.

Hm.

That's a laugh.

Or perhaps it's because a long time ago when I worked in Panama I was bitten in my sleep by a bat.

My theory is that the...

The bat had previously acquired the vampire germ.

By the time it entered my blood it'd been strained and weakened by the bat's system.

As a result I have immunity.

Well, it's only a guess but it's all I have to go on.

>> You don't think that I'm immune, do you?

>> It's a simple matter to find out whether you are or not.

(heavy knocks and bangs) >> What will you do if I am infected?

Kill me?

You don't have to answer.

I know as well as you do.

It's incurable.

>> There might be a way.

If not of killing the germ, at least of containing it, keeping it from spreading.

If I had the equipment, the time.

>> Which you don't.

(gentle orchestral music) (breathing heavily) (heavy knocks) (melancholy orchestral music) (coughs) (melancholy orchestral music) (Ruth gasps for breath) (Ruth sobs) (moves into tense orchestral music) >> You are one of them.

>> I was.

And without that injection I'll be one again.

>> What do you mean?

You've found a solution?

>> That's right.

Exactly as you said it could be.

I take that for it.

>> What is it?

>> Defibrillate blood plus vaccine.

The blood feeds the germ.

The vaccine keeps it isolated and prevents it from multiplying.

We've had it for some time now.

>> We?

We?

>> There are quite a number of us.

>> And I thought you were alone.

I was going to cure you!

Does that amuse you?

>> No.

>> Now I want the truth.

I want all of it.

Why are you here?

>> To find out if you know any more than we do.

You know far less.

We are alive.

Infected, yes, but alive.

We can reorganize society.

Do away with all those wretched creatures who are neither alive nor dead.

Start everything all over again (sobs).

>> And you want me to join?

>> You can't join us.

You're a monster to them.

Why do you think I ran when I saw you, even though I was assigned to spy on you?

Because I was so terrified of what I'd heard about you.

You're a legend in the city.

Moving by day instead of night.

Leaving as evidence of your existence bloodless corpses.

Many of the people you destroyed were still alive!

Many of them were loved ones of the people in my group.

>> I didn't know.

>> Is there any way you can get out of here?

>> What do you mean?

>> They're coming after you tonight.

That's why I was sent here.

To prevent you from resisting them.

I'm supposed to keep you here until they come.

>> To kill me?

>> Yes (sobs).

>> Your new society sounds charming.

>> The beginning of any society is never charming or gentle.

>> And you pretended to be shocked at my violence.

Well what are you waiting for?

Why don't you go on and use it?

Get over with!

Use it!

Get it over with!

(Ruth cries) >> Now you know.

What are you going to do?

(coughs and gasps) (slow haunting music) (moves into gentle orchestral music) (heavy knocks and bangs) (gentle orchestral music) (suspenseful orchestral music) >> What are you doing?

>> It's already done.

>> What?

>> Look!

Look!

You see?

It worked, Ruth.

The antibodies in my blood worked!

My blood has saved you, Ruth.

Do you know what this means?

You and I can save all the others.

We won't be alone.

We'll never be alone again!

>> You are sure?

>> Wait.

Don't be afraid.

(Ruth sighs) Where are you going?

>> I have to get out of here.

Tell them you're not a threat to us.

>> You can't go out there.

>> You can save all of us.

>> You wouldn't get 10 feet.

When they come here there won't be time for questions and answers.

They'll come to kill.

For God's sake, Robert, let me go.

Oh, Robert, please!

>> Ruth, look, tomorrow.

>> Please!

Robert!

>> Tomorrow, Ruth.

Tomorrow will be all right.

>> (sobs) Robert, no.

(heavy breathing) (haunting orchestral music) (moves into gentle orchestral music) Robert?

>> Robert: Yes, Ruth?

>> What if this doesn't last?

>> But it will.

I've already checked it under the microscope.

Wait, I'll show you.

I'll prove it to you.

I'll check it again.

(climatic orchestral music) (glass shatters) (moves into gentle orchestral music) Ruth, just take a look at this!

This'll prove it to you.

Ruth, there's no change.

I've double-checked.

>> Ruth: Robert!

>> Ruth?

Ruth!

>> Robert!

>> Ruth.

Get away from her!

(loud shuffling) Ruth, are you all right?

Are you all right?

(tense orchestral music) (engine roars) >> Run, Robert!

Robert, run!

(gun pops) Run!

They've come to kill you, Robert.

(man cries out) Run!

Run!

(man groans) (climatic orchestral music) (man groans) (man cries out) >> Up there!

(climatic orchestral music) (rapid gunfire) (Ben moans) (Ben yells) (loud crash) (climatic orchestral music) >> There he is!

>> Wait!

You don't understand.

Wait!

(man cries) >> Get him!

Get him!

(climatic orchestral music) (gun pops) (engine revs up) >> Wait!

>> Man: Around the block.

Move!

Move!

(climatic orchestral music) This way.

Hey, over here!

This way!

Cover all sides!

(gentle orchestral music) (moves into climatic orchestral music) (gun pops) (climatic orchestral music) (gun pops) (man groans) (gun pops) (climatic orchestral music) (glass shatters) Stand back.

(rapid gunfire) (climatic orchestral music) (fast paced footsteps) (gunfire) (loud explosion) (rapid gunfire) (loud explosion) (men coughing) (loud explosion) (climatic orchestral music) >> Robert: There he is!

In the church!

(loud explosions) (loud explosion) Over there!

(loud engines roar) (men coughing) (rapid gunfire) >> Robert: Hold your fire!

(loud explosion) (footsteps) (climatic orchestral music) (women and men coughing) (loud footsteps) (slow haunting orchestral music) (Robert breathes heavily) (slow haunting orchestral music) (Robert groans) (slow haunting orchestral music) (moves into climatic orchestral music) >> You're freaks!

All of you!

All of you, freaks!

Mutations!

(Robert grunts) >> Robert: Hold it!

>> You're freaks!

I'm a man!

The last man.

(loud thump) (Robert grunts) >> Robert!

>> They were afraid of me.

They were afraid of me.

They were afraid of me.

>> (sobs) They didn't know.

(slow haunting orchestral music) (baby cries) (upbeat orchestral music) (choir vocalizing) Hey, it's Kris and Jane.

And we are still alive and hiding out down here in the basement.

But I think we're safe, right for the moment, Jane.

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Well, next time around, we have the Roger Corman film, Little Shop of Horrors , starring Jonathan Hayes and Jackie Joseph.

Thanks for coming again, Jane.

We certainly do appreciate it.

And make sure you tune in to find out who will be next to me in the gesture.

Thanks for having me and thanks for watching.

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