Tonight on Friday Night Freak Show – War of the Robots

This 1964 film is a great adaptation of  the Richard Matheson I Am Legend.  Matheson helped write the screenplay but decided to be credited as “Logan Swanson”.  The book inspired Night of the Living Dead(which we showed last week), as well as Omega Man. If you haven’t read the book or seen the Omega Man,…

Don Maxwell (William Woods) is a former vaudeville impersonator who is working as the lab assistant to Dr. Meirschultz (Horace B. Carpenter), a mad scientist attempting to bring the dead back to life. When Don kills Meirschultz, he attempts to hide his crime by “becoming” the doctor, taking over his work and copying his appearance…