Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

hellholehorror It was in colour! It looked fine for an older film, pretty soft but fine I guess. I didn't really like the music but other than that it was fine. I liked the idea of them going blind but the plants weren't that creepy. It lacked the old-school special effect that I was looking forward to!

beltezam1939 The book by John Wyndham "Day of the Triffids" is excellent. The British TV series based on the book,was also excellent. This 1962 version is terrible, full of unrealistic monstrous Triffids and with none of the social statements in the book and British series, 1981. The 1981 mini-series, which I saw first, was much more faithful to the book. Unfortunately, it is very hard to find the mini-series on DVD and it was only shown three times n the US, on the A&E channel which was not very good quality. It was one of those rare and wonderful productions, like the TENKO series, which was only shown on A&E and does not seem to be shown again since the early 90s.

Red-Barracuda Day of the Triffids was an excellent John Wyndham novel that, in the grand tradition, had been adapted for the screen here with many changes. The result is a story that has been simplified into an alien invasion movie. There is nothing particularly strange about this process though as even today screen adaptions of novels take substantial liberties in the transition. But my advice would nevertheless be to seek out the book as it is one of the great sci-fi novels of its era. The story here has a spectacular meteor shower blinding the population of Earth, except those who did not view it. At the same time, giant carnivorous alien plants called Triffids begin to dominate this world where the blind make easy prey. The story sort of makes me think of the later sub-genre of film, the zombie apocalypse movie. Both share aggressors who are multitudinous, murderous, unrelenting and with one-track minds; while those films also share the survivalist story lines where small groups of people must work out a way to successfully navigate the pandemic that sweeps their world.The Triffids do make for good monsters in what is essentially a creature-feature. The effects are a bit clunky at times but for its era this is still okay and shot in colour which wasn't exactly a given for this type of fayre in the early 60's. Like the original story it is set in Britain, although in the action does relocate to France and Spain latterly. But like a number of British genre films of the time such as the Quatermass films, this one features an American in the lead role as a means to no doubt make the product more marketable in the United States, in this case we have Howard Keel as the most pro-active survivor. It's a film that does work best in its earlier section where we witness the devastation of the meteor incident with hordes of blind milling around London helplessly in various locations, while we also see the early indicators of the dangers the Triffids present, they themselves are introduced in an atmospheric opening attack in a large indoor botanical garden. There is also a separate plot strand with a couple of scientists stranded in a lighthouse on a rock in the sea, needless to say our plant monsters make it out there, causing all manner of terrors. There is some decent suspense generated in this one at times and the production values are good enough overall. It's really quite an entertaining low-brow adaption of an ambitious book; taken for what it is, it's kind of fun.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- The Day of the Triffids, 1962. During an extensive bright meteor shower, the population of Europe becomes blind. At the same time seed pods land and sprout a man-eating plant species that attacks the blind populace for food. A few people who did not lose their sight band together to fight the plant invasion and find the best weapon to use against the invaders.*Special Stars- Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott.*Theme- Outer space is full of unexplained lifeforms.*Trivia/location/goofs- Color, English. Filmed in Spain. Supposedly the basis for Spielburg's 'E.T. the Extraterrestrial'. Watch the bottoms of the triffids during their attacks on camera; you can see wheels, wires, and operator's tennis shoes. The film had a too short running time for exhibition and several extra scenes in the lighthouse was added.*Emotion- A fun well produced film with an interesting twist on plant invaders and a defenseless populace being blind. It's plot and images were very influential on many early Hollywood film directors and writers.