The Day of the Triffids
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Movie Reviews of The Day of the Triffids
Movie Review: The Movie All Vegetarians MUST See!
Summary: 4 Stars
A strange meteor shower blinds most of humanity, leaving them to stumble around while carnivorous plant monsters pick 'em off. A sailor (Howard Keel) wakes up after eye surgery to find that he is one of the few left who can see. The triffids rampage, devouring anyone they can get a hold of. Keel sets out to find others like himself. Along the way he comes across a little girl who can see. Together, they must flee the vege-beasts and locate any others who might be able to see. They take refuge in a house full of other survivors. It is full of blind girls who all happen to be beautiful. Well, along comes a truckload of machine-gun toting, escaped convicts and the party really begins! That is until the triffids arrive and eat everyone (except Howard Keel and company). Meanwhile, in a lighthouse, a couple are battling triffids of their own, while trying to find an effective way to kill them. Janet Scott is the wife of the drunken scientist who spends most of his time being a hateful turd. He rises above himself in order to save the world. I will not reveal the ending or the method that is found to exterminate the triffids. See it for yourself and be entertained...Movie Review: I'll get you and your little dog too
Summary: 3 Stars
One day a comet came by and a meteorite left off a triffid. So we are familiar with the little cuties. They never bothered anyone.
Little did we know that the next comet would bring a hungry version of triffid. Looks like the new one likes snacking on cute girls and little doges.
What do we care if a few slow moving plants are roaming around? No wait, the meteor shower has blinded most of the population. Now we have a problem as a plant that munches on people and propagates like rabbits can now feed without having to exercise.
This is more than just an eating story. There is also a lonely sailor that escaped being blinded while he was in the hospital. How he builds a family from acquaintances on his mission to regroup. Mean while back at the lighthouse on an island a burned out lush scientist has found a mission to bump off the triffids before he becomes triffid chow.
This is one of those movies that would have been more dramatic in Black and white.
The only draw back on this movie is the female in the lighthouse screams and screams and screams. Them she hears something and does not want to wake up her hubby so she walks right up to the poor triffid and screams at it. It looks like the poor thing lost its footing.
Again this is a pale reflection of an excellent book. Also to be politically correct the triffids that were genetically produced in Russia in the book now mysteriously come from a comet to let the Russians off the hook. However the movie captured the essence. And it is necessary to watch for cultural literacy. And it is just down right fun.
The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries)
Movie Review: The Triffids Fall Short
Summary: 3 Stars
Fete of Death
Not one of Freddie Francis's better directorial efforts, "Day of the Triffids," an adaptation of a John Wyndham novel, is a leisurely paced sci-fi thriller that is based on an interesting idea--that a meteor shower afflicts the world's populace with blindness, paving the way for an invasion of plantlike "triffids."
However, unlike the film's idea, the man-eating triffids themselves are silly. They look more stupid than scary. Like the movie, they move so sluggishly that it is difficult to believe they could instill fear even in a three-year-old tot.
The scene with the blind passengers panicking on the commercial jet in flight is engrossing, but the rest of the chills are few and far between. This movie doesn't hold a candle to other British sci-fi movies produced at this time, such as, "Five Million Years to Earth," aka "Quatermass and the Pit." The grainy print on the "Day of the Triffids" DVD doesn't help the film's cause, either.
Another film based on a Wyndham novel, "Villlage of the Damned," starring George Sanders, offers better suspense and more frequent thrills than does "Day of the Triffids." Still, "Triffids" is an entertaining, if not compelling, movie, and I would recommend viewing it.
--Bryan Cassiday, author of "Fete of Death"
Movie Review: Looks better on LASERDISC!!!
Summary: 3 Stars
This is an o.k. film for the SF exploitation genre, however, all of the existing DVD transfers are either in the wrong aspect ratio or very badly mastered. There IS a decent print out there, somewhere, as I have it on letterboxed laserdisc (...My laserdisc player is alive and well, thank you--after two of my VCR's have conked out--SO THERE!!!) Wait and see. Maybe someone like THE ROAN GROUP (Roan Group, are you listening?) who specialize in restoring and remastering forgotten films will pick up the distribution.Movie Review: ANOTHER ANGRY FAN....
Summary: 2 Stars
I was already waiting for this DVD to arrive when I read the other reviews. Otherwise I would have cancelled my order. This is a fine British sci-fi horror shocker that is well done in color and capably acted. It's one of my favorites. What this Allied Artists company has done with it is astonishingly awful....I'm just sick over their utter gall to release this neglected gem in such terrible condition. It's so faded and poorly reproduced that you can't even enjoy it....