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Originally Posted by curtw
Yes, but I Am Legend is not considered to be a literary ancestor of today's vampire genre. It is the point-of-origin for the current public perception of zombies. George Romero fully acknowledges that his re-animated corpses in "Night of the Living Dead" were inspired by I Am Legend[/URL] .
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Well the article quotes him as saying the idea from
I am Legend of everyone else gone and a single survivor having to deal with the end-of-the-world was his inspiration for a small group of survivors dealing with the zombie outbreak in
Night of the Living Dead.
I have seen other movie documentaries pointing to the
Last Man on Earth (the first movie version of
I Am Legend, with Vincent Price) as being the visual inspiration of the hordes of zombies from
Night of the Living Dead outside the farmhouse.
Either way, the novel I am Legend has absolutely nothing to do with zombies.