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Duel (1971) FR #1861 | Movie | Thriller, Action | USA | English
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Director Steven Spielberg
Writer Richard Matheson
Cast Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone
Plot A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
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I Am Legend (2007) FR #2283 | Movie | Horror, Drama | USA, UK | English
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Director Francis Lawrence
Writer Mark Protosevich, Akiva Goldsman, Richard Matheson
Cast Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan
Plot Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
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The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) FR #3403 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Horror | USA | English
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Director Jack Arnold
Writer Richard Matheson, Richard Alan Simmons
Cast Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent
Plot After Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
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The Last Man On Earth (1964) FR #3413 | Movie | Horror, Drama | USA, Italy | English, Italian
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Director Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow
Writer Richard Matheson, William F. Leicester, Furio M. Monetti
Cast Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli
Plot When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
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Pit And The Pendulum aka The Pit And The Pendulum (1961) FR #4659 | Movie | Horror, Drama | USA | English
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Director Roger Corman
Writer Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe
Cast Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr
Plot In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
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Editorial Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Richard Matheson collects the writer’s most important, popular and top regarded work. This list is built from the cataogue of 25000 core titles provided on FlickRatings, and showcases most important movies and TV shows as ordered by our score generated using public metadata. Combine this with our weekly updated OTT information to shortlist your next watch.
