Monday Movies

Twice per month we'll have movie night at HPL.  Until we get past, December, the movie series will have a decidedly "End of the World" feel to it.  Once past December 21, all bets are off though and the series subjects will broaden!

Because of the way the public performance rights work, I can't use the actual movie titles, but we can make a little game out of it, can't we?  See if you can figure out the July 9th movie from this description:

The movie stars Charlton Heston as an Army doctor struggling to create a cure for the plague that has wiped out most of the human race.  This 1971 film is based on the Richard Matheson novel, I am Legend.  Further hint?

Here is a synopsis from IMDB:

"Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling themselves "The Family". The plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as homicidally psychotic. They believe science and technology to be the cause of the war and their punishment, and Neville, as the last symbol of science, the old world, and a "user of the wheel", must die. Neville, using electricity, machinery, and science attempts to hold them at bay." Written by Roald E. Peterson III

I've left a few blatant clues here hinted at the next movie we will be showing in our movie series.  Finally, here's a screenshot from the film:

Have you figured it out?  It's a great low-budget adaptation of a science fiction novel and Heston is at his campy best.  Come down to HPL on July 9th at 6:30pm and enjoy the film (and the cold AC!)