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A meteor shower disrupts the earth's ecosystem, blinds all who observed it and awakens meat-eating plants. As the hungry foliage grow ever faster, a sighted sailor and an alcoholic scientist help save humanity from becoming plant food. Script originally credited to Phillip Yordan, who acted as a blacklist-era "front" for Gordon. Read more
| Starring | Alison Leggatt, Ewan Roberts, Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey |
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| Director | Ken Hannam, Freddie Francis |
| Genres | Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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A meteor shower disrupts the earth's ecosystem, blinds all who observed it and awakens meat-eating plants. As the hungry foliage grow ever faster, a sighted sailor and an alcoholic scientist help save humanity from becoming plant food. Script originally credited to Phillip Yordan, who acted as a blacklist-era "front" for Gordon.
| Starring | Alison Leggatt, Ewan Roberts, Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Mervyn Johns, Alexander Knox, Janina Faye, Alison Le |
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| Director | Ken Hannam, Freddie Francis |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 30 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 34 mins |
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| Genres | Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | DVD: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Released | Production year: 1962 On LOVEFiLM Instant: LOVEFiLM Instant: 18 Sep 2010 To Rent: DVD: not available |
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Not a particularly faithful adaptation of John Wyndham's novel, though it sticks to the basic theme about a world... read more on Time Out
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Time has not been kind...
The Day Of The Triffids has to be one of the best sci-fi books I've ever read, and continues to be hugely influential to this day, not just in print but on ... read more »
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that will be the day
Problem with this is that how do you make flesh eating plants to uproot themselves and look credible in the book, when they look convincing on screen. And then ... read more »
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Poor video quality
I don't know what the quality of the original source material was, but the image quality on this dvd is very poor - best avoided. Why not try the 1981 BBC ... read more »
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day of the triffids
awful awful awful. if you want to see a film that is nothing like the book then watch this.
awful.