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Though Richard Matheson is usually characterized as a writer of horror or terror stories, the most immediately striking aspect of his writing is the essential ordinariness of his characters and the prosaism of their predicaments. Matheson's is a fiction...

Richard Matheson has enjoyed a long career as a writer of films, television scripts, novels, and short stories. His work is characterized by ordinary characters who suddenly find themselves in bizarre, often threatening circumstances. As Gary K. Wolfe no...

Richard Matheson, screenwriter and novelist, a contemporary master of the suspense story, was born in Allendale, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. After serving in the Army in France and Germany during WWII, he studied journalism at the Univ...

I Am Legend dir. Francis Lawrence The signs were ominous, certainly. Another horror remake? Of a story already immortalized by the likes of Vincent Price and Chuck Heston? (In 1964's The Last Man on Earth and 1971's jutjawed, so-camp-it's-back-to-straight The Omega Man,...

If you've read the 1954 novel by Richard Matheson or seen the 1971 film "Omega Man," then you know what to expect from this end- of-the-world sci-fi film. The real reason to check it out is for the trailer to "The Dark Knight," the...

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain joked Friday that given his campaign's ups and downs, he's shown the stamina of the last man on Earth."I've been declared dead in this campaign on five or six occasions. I won't refer to a recent movie I saw, but...

Will Smith 's new sci-fi thriller "I Am Legend" is hitting movie theaters across Asia later this month — but not in China."We struggled very, very hard to try to get it to work out, but there are only a certain amount of foreign films...