The Omega Man (1971)
Charlton Heston plays the square jawed survivor of a worldwide plague and is seemingly the last man on earth except for hordes of light sensitive mutant types led by Anthony Zerbe.
loosely based on Richard Matheson's classic vampire novel and an even looser remake of the Vincent Price film
Last Man on Earth, this ditches most of the horror elements much to the films detriment. Gone are the classic images of that depicted Price clearing and burning bodies in huge pits, replaced by Heston finding other untainted survivors and then falling in love with Rosalind Cash,
Zerbe and his light sensitive mutants aren't vampires they are a religious sect and are seemingly simply out for revenge on Heston who to them represents the knowledge that poisoned humanity in the first place.
Highlights include the first twenty minutes as Heston drives round the deserted city streets searching for the mutants hide out, and those who recall Alan Frank's classic Sci-Fi Now book from the seventies will bare witness to the memorable photo of Heston uncovering skeletal remains in a bed.
A film which is enjoyable and a classic bit of seventies studio sci-fi but pales in comparison to Vincent Price and morbidly grim
The Last Man on Earth (1964)