The Day of the Triffids
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Movie Reviews of The Day of the Triffids
Movie Review: A classic
Summary: 5 Stars
For those of us who were pre-teens in the late 60's, movies like this were the reason we stayed inside the house on Saturday afternoons. You can't compare this movie with the horror movies of today - the special effects are minimal, the blood is non-existent and the cast isn't made up of box-office stars, but still the movie achieves a solemn creepiness and sense of dread and anticipation. One of the best of this genre.Movie Review: A great Classic! A keeper!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm so very glad that this DVD is available. Every kid I knew was as terrified as me when we saw this! Another flash to the past for horror fans like me who had a steady diet of classic monster movies thru the 50's and 60's! A Keeper!. And the best part is it is not nearly as "campy" as I thought it would be to watch at my age of 55. It's really a good movie! Highly recommend!Movie Review: Great Scifi
Summary: 5 Stars
The Day of the Triffids has always been one of my favorite scifi movies from the time I first saw it when I was young and still holds up today. The film was not preserved as it should have been thus the quality is not up to modern standards, but the movie itself is still one of the greats.Movie Review: the day of the triffids
Summary: 5 Stars
this is old movie and it's different and i think the acting is great the story is great and the people are great. there no big gore and no big special effects butt its good. just setback and enjoy classy movieMovie Review: A Mega-Fun Classic
Summary: 4 Stars
"The Day of the Triffids" is the ultimate litmus test of film viewing. If you can't enjoy in on the SF level, the camp level, or both; then you should examine yourself closely as you probably died some time ago and did not notice. Or maybe their pleasure center has atrophied.
Of course there are those tired folks who keep crying about the film's injustice to John Wyndham's book. We are not exactly talking about "Heart of Darkness" here, just appreciate the film for what it is. What would have been the point of a meticulous adaptation when everything else about the film is relaxed and low-budget fun.
Speaking of fun there is Howard Keel, a Gordon MacRae type movie musical star (Showboat, Annie Get Your Gun, Kismet, and Seven Brides), playing the dashing hero after seven years of unemployment once Hollywood stopped making his kind of movies. Good Grief, Keel was fantastic as Petruchio in "Kiss Me Kate"; what a contrast with his Triffids role. He and Joan Crawford (Trog) probably swapped career horror (pun intended) stories.
Watch for the scene in the hospital after Keel takes the bandages off his eyes and begins wandering around. They were so low budget that they used the stair railing set twice, just changing camera angle and distance to disguise the duplication.
A highly recommended all-time classic that is as much fun now as it was on television in the mid-1960's.
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.