Please, someday, a faithful adaptation of Matheson's brilliant novella.

Wow, super interesting and more faithful to the original. And yet they STILL wind up in Bethel Vermont (where I live) which is NOT on Route 17. Curious. Thanks for sharing this.

I confess I haven't read the original.

but it makes perfect sense, come to think about it, that when the world ends Jessamyn's home is the only place that's going to be spared. you'll delete the virus or something.

but I like this ending better than the one I saw, the "let's blow all this shit up" was a pretty crude downer for me. I suppose -- paradoxically -- that "zombies have girlfriends, too" is less ugly and somewhat more hopeful.

also, I love Washington Square townhouses

I'm torn. I didn't like the original ending when I first saw the film, for a moment there I was even hoping for a classic "everyone dies, always" zombie-movie scenario, but no there was some hope attached, all sequel-like to the ending we were fed where the "legend" guy died.

On the other hand I can totally understand why this didn't play well, it didn't make the much sense. If the vampire-like folk were the zombies made out to be, they wouldn't have love.

So in that sense, I guess it was a nice twist actually. Hmm.

Also, dammit, what's legend about the guy is the amount of Van Gogh's he managed to squeeze into the hallways of his four-story washington town house. I hated him and his stuff far too much to pay attention to the whole "lost his family in a copter-crash" thing, Damn, never make random army-doctors that stupidly rich again Hollywood! Ya hear?

I felt like the riches in his townhouse was just looting. From what I had heard about the book there were basically zombie breain eater types and then these people who were moving towards human -- the vampire types -- and that's why he was getting those weird results "they're able to stay in the light" etc. The movie obscured that for a dopey Will Smith vehicle. In the book HE is the legend, the legendary Vampire Hunter who they all feel preyed upon by. Sort of levels the playing field a bit. I thought the movie was mostly noxious though post-virus NYC was interesting to look at. No idea wtf about Bethel though, strange to hear about it (ColdChef told me, so I saw the movie)

Yeah, I think the art was supposed to be looted. I actually thought it was a nice touch -- it was my favorite detail in the film.

Oh, of course - why didn't I think of that? Duh me. That makes perfect sense.