From Wikipedia....
The story occurs in 1977, two years after biological warfare between the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union kills most of the world's human population with biological weaponry (the escalation is shown in flashback and the date March 1975 is indicated by a tattered calendar). U.S. Army Colonel Robert Neville, M.D. (Charlton Heston) — a military scientist — begins to succumb to the plague, and moments before death, in desperation he vaccinates himself against the plague with experimental vaccine 93-B71, which renders him immune.
In Los Angeles, several hundred biologically resistant albinos calling themselves "The Family" survive the plague - however, they have become deranged, violent, nocturnal, photophobic mutants, and the plague has provoked psychoses and delusions of grandeur. Despite being resistant, members of The Family are dying, perhaps because the plague is mutating.
The Family's leader is Jonathan Matthias (Anthony Zerbe) — a popular Los Angeles television news anchorman whom the plague has transformed into a dangerous, rhetoric-spewing psychotic. He and The Family believe that the war - and their diseased state - is the direct result of science. Therefore, The Family has become Ludditic. Clad in black robes, they use medieval imagery and only the most primitive technologies, including torches, bows, arrows and catapults, to destroy every vestige of science and technology they can find. They see Dr. Neville as a "user of the wheel" - the last remnant of the culture of science they seek to erase - and make it their goal to see him dead.
Col. Neville lives atop a fortified apartment building equipped with an arsenal (Smith & Wesson M76 submachine gun, infrared sight-equipped Browning Automatic Rifle, satchel charges). By day, he scavenges for supplies while searching for The Family’s nest among the deserted city's buildings. At night, Neville illuminates his building and the surrounding area with floodlights to deter The Family's attempts to kill him, but they still clamor outside, burning books and other cultural artifacts, taunting and attacking Neville whenever they can.
SR: Even though the Neville Character represents the Military Industrial Complex that succors the JBT mentality, he does display some Libertarian Qualities by watching WOODSTOCK and depending on himself to defend his home with every weapon imaginable...
Kudos to Anthony Zerbe as Matthias who embodies the Socialist Overlord Mentality by ruling through fear and ignorance, Paul Koslo as Dutch (Love that Flip The Bird Biker Jacket Dude !) who heads a group of kids who look like they walked over from the set of THE BRADY BUNCH and the Late by Lovable Rosalind Cash who could wipe up L.A. with Matthias and the Family if she had a decent chance...
One of the best lines has to be from Heston when captured by Matthias and his "Family"....
Neville: Tell me something, would you? Are you fellas really with the Internal Revenue Service?
So go out and Rent the DVD or catch it on Cable !
) Invariably, I get puzzled looks in response.
lol ... nah nice movie, cool concept, and very well done, well acted ... nicely paced, never drags