Fantastic, frightening and entirely creepy film dealing with people around the world are treated to a spectacular meteor shower resulting in most of the world blinded and the dangerous carnivorous Triffids set loose . In fact , they were called Triffids because they had a three-pronged root . They fall upon a group of scattered survivors (Janette Scott ,Kieron Moore) to fight this plant invasion and the madness following , while the Triffids are now growing rapidly and consuming more and more humans . In London, Bill Masen (Howard Keel) misses the show as he is in hospital with his eyes bandaged . He removes the bandages himself and soon realizes that he one of the few people with sight as everyone who observed the meteor shower is now blind . Bill finds himself in a nightmarish world where he believes himself to be the only sighted person left . Along the way the Triffids have discovered a taste for rotting, human flesh. The remaining blind are helpless and many fall prey to the Triffids' lethal whipping sting. The Triffids are on their way - devouring humans, and most off the planet thinks it's a joke - but is not . To help stop the invasion, a group of hold outs fight this invasion of killer plants . But it's not just the plants which need to be eradicated! . Instead they are space aliens whose spores have arrived in an earlier meteor shower. Society has broken down and Bill rescues a young sighted girl . Their challenge is not only to survive in this new world but to survive the onslaught of triffids , flesh eating plants that are coming to devour the human race . Man eating plants! Spine chilling terror!The triffids are coming! The triffids are growing! The triffids are killing!Beware the triffids... they grow... know... walk... talk... stalk... and kill! ... suddenly the hideous crawling things are everywhere... and no one can escape!
From one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time about a meteor shower causing permanent eye damage and suddenly appearing the feared Triffids . This is John Wyndham's famous story well adapted by Steve Sekely concerning a world dominated by monstrous , as a terrible catastrophe has struck the population of Earth by stinging plants catching the imagination like the best of HG Wells . In the footprints of ¨Invasion of the Bodysnatchers¨ and ¨The Thing¨ comes this piece of kitsch filmmaking from 1962 . From the nightmare novel that made the world shudder was shot this acceptable movie , though with dated special effects . It displays tense , suspenseful , and terrifying scenes when the starving Triffids attack . As well as a moving and thrilling musical score by Ron Goodwin and supported with "additional music" by composer Johnny Douglas who actually supplied more music than the main composer . The motion picture was professionally directed by Steve Sekely (Lake Placid Serenade , Waterfront , Lady in the Death House , Women in Bondage , Revenge of the Zombies , Behind Prison Walls) and uncredited Freddie Francis .
There are other version about this story as ¨The Day of the Triffids¨ (1981) series by Ken Hannam with John Duttine , Jonathan Newth . ¨Day of Triffids¨ series (2009) by Nick Copus woth Dougray Scott , Joely Richardson, Eddie Izzard , Brian Cox.
From one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time about a meteor shower causing permanent eye damage and suddenly appearing the feared Triffids . This is John Wyndham's famous story well adapted by Steve Sekely concerning a world dominated by monstrous , as a terrible catastrophe has struck the population of Earth by stinging plants catching the imagination like the best of HG Wells . In the footprints of ¨Invasion of the Bodysnatchers¨ and ¨The Thing¨ comes this piece of kitsch filmmaking from 1962 . From the nightmare novel that made the world shudder was shot this acceptable movie , though with dated special effects . It displays tense , suspenseful , and terrifying scenes when the starving Triffids attack . As well as a moving and thrilling musical score by Ron Goodwin and supported with "additional music" by composer Johnny Douglas who actually supplied more music than the main composer . The motion picture was professionally directed by Steve Sekely (Lake Placid Serenade , Waterfront , Lady in the Death House , Women in Bondage , Revenge of the Zombies , Behind Prison Walls) and uncredited Freddie Francis .
There are other version about this story as ¨The Day of the Triffids¨ (1981) series by Ken Hannam with John Duttine , Jonathan Newth . ¨Day of Triffids¨ series (2009) by Nick Copus woth Dougray Scott , Joely Richardson, Eddie Izzard , Brian Cox.