Very disappointing...

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Blistering performances.

Technical I think it was a nice movie even though old and no special effects it worked fine.Plotwise and later in the story I was simply lost as I could not make myself believe it anymore. I know it is a movie and not real life. But the deaths were just too silly.The start is great and gives a good promise about the rest of the movie. I was exited to see what would happen.I think they acted realistic hysterical and under pressure in the start of the movie after the big light glimpse. And it gave good excitement the way one of them had something described as radiation sickness. I was at this time exited guessing what could really have happened. And here I soon got my first letdown.SPOILERS start: But after dying they turned to white powder. Ehh were they delayed incinerated by the flash? No unfortunately even worse. It was a virus that made them white powder. And a virus that hit all over the world at the same time.Had they just let people be dead bodies, then everything would have worked great. And then let us know the virus had gradually spread instead of appearing worldwide at once, then I would have loved the movie. A bit like the old BBC series Survivors (I think it is).

I was fourteen when this movie premiered on CBS in 1974. I know it was CBS because that was the only channel we could pick-up in 1974. I can't remember ever seeing it again until I saw it on cable on April 7th 2009. I could still remember some of the lines the actors spoke and of course the story. This film came out four years after the omega man in 1970. It has always stuck with me. The image of the bodies turning to dust has also stayed with me. I looked up the information on the movies with IMDb. I've always been a big fan of Peter Graves and was glad to see that he has continued to work into his eighty's. I always wondered what happened to the dark side of the planet when the solar flares happened? In my humble opinion though this was a better film than "I am Legend" which was a remake of the Omega Man. It did seem to end on a very positive note. Beside how bad could it be to end up alone on earth with Kathleen Quinlan.

Like most of the people posting before me, I too remembered being profoundly impacted by this little movie as a wee lad in the mid-seventies. I loved this film as a child, as a matter of fact I have had an affinity for all manner of apocalyptic fiction ever since, from the 1980 cartoon, "Thundar the Barbarian" to the book "Alas Babylon" to the film "I am Legend" and up to and including the recent television series "Jericho". Yes, this movie was the seed of my love for an entire genre of fiction. I don't recall many details regarding this film but I do remember that I was deliciously creeped out by it. I saw it only the one time but I am excited to be able to get the opportunity to watch it again as I have TiVoed it off of the Fox Movie Channel and will be watching it as soon as I post this.

My parents had gone out and I was home alone when I watched this on TV many years ago, lol! Yes, it terrified me as I was only 8 or 9 then. I'm 41 now and would love to see it again, this time without the pillow, blankets, and dog in front of my face! It starts out with a camping trip, one like I have taken so many times with my own family, so true to life. When it's over you have to wonder if something like this could really happen, has it already happened? You have to go look out the window to make sure the world it still the same as when you last saw it. I have only seen the movie once, but it has stayed with me all these years. I think you can get it on DVD now, but if not, find an old VCR & watch it!