As a panicked Clark ran alongside, she struggled to stay afloat as she called out: "Superman!" Refusing to reveal his identity, Clark used his X-ray Heat-vision to fell a great tree branch into the water, and then yelled out: "Grab the branch.He valiantly defended himself, but soon bled to death in the elevator.He was revealed to be a reanimated zombie when the doors reopened, to join the army of undead who now had infiltrated into every store." He convincingly warned that between there and Ridgemont, he had already come upon six bodies in Myers"" wake, and "he""s here to kill that little girl and anybody who gets in his way.]Director Romero and co-writer John Russo acknowledged hat Richard Matheson""s 1954 novellaI Am Legend(adapted into the filmThe Last Man on Earth (1964)) was an inspiration for their apocalyptic sci-fi script...This here ain""t Taylor.Taylor been shot.This man here is Chris.He been resurrected." A private gathering of "heads" in a dark "underworld" cave bunker was in progress (decorated with a Ho Chi Minh poster, lit candles and a string of small red Christmas lights).