The New Will Smith movie has Smith playing Robert Neville, the last man alive. Based on the 1954 novel by Richard Matheson, Neville somehow survives a huge pandemic infection of a bacterium that seems to cause most of the well known symptoms of vampirism. Though it causes the infected to have an aversion to garlic, a craving for fresh blood, and seemingly invulnerable to bullets but not stakes or sunlight, they aren't quite your intelligent full fledged vampires from the cult classics. They're closer to the raging zombies of the 28 days/weeks later variety, only, y'know, vampires.
From what I've read, the book does a great job of painting a picture of anguish and despair as Neville works on boarding up and fortifying his home during the day, and hunting down the infected vampires by night. I don't care what anybody says about Will Smith, this movie looks like it's gonna be pure steak sauce: A-1 baby.
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I don't know if this is the way they're going to take the movie, but in the book Neville is the only one immune to the virus, but eventually he discovers he's not the only one alive. Neville happens across another class of folks that while still infected manage to keep the disease at bay for parts of the day. But, like you do, Neville goes about killing these folks along with the rest of the infected. Then one day they capture him and reveal what they are to him, making him realize that he had become the monster that terrified the living.
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