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Summary: Save Your Money
Review: This is one of my favourite 50's Sci-Fi OldiesBut this the WORST DVD Transfer EVER. Bad Colour,Fuzzy Focus ,Pan & Scan
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Summary: The kind of plant you'd give your Mother-in-Law!
Review: This is really a fun movie!Howard Keel (who starred in the last few seasons of "Dallas", among many other things), is wonderful as one of the few sighted people left on the planet. A bizzare meteor shower blinds anyone who saw it, and causes chaos throughout the world as masses of blinded people struggle to survive. The radiation from the shower also activates the spores of the deadly Triffid plants. Saved from blindness because of a simple eye operation (requiring bandages so he cannot witness the meteor shower), Keel must come to grips with the not only the horrors of a world gone mad, but the horrible carnivorous plants as well! They come to life and attack the people. They can move and are attracted to any sound. The story also follows a sub-plot of a disillusioned couple living in a lighthouse, stranded, and surrounded by deadly Triffids! For you sci-fi trivia buffs, look for a young Carol Ann Ford, who a year later would be the first of Doctor Who's many companions as the Doctor's (William Hartnell), niece Susan Foreman.
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Summary: The kind of plant you'd give your Mother-in-Law!
Review: This is really a fun movie! Howard Keel (who starred in the last few seasons of "Dallas", among many other things), is wonderful as one of the few sighted people left on the planet. A bizzare meteor shower blinds anyone who saw it, and causes chaos throughout the world as masses of blinded people struggle to survive. The radiation from the shower also activates the spores of the deadly Triffid plants. Saved from blindness because of a simple eye operation (requiring bandages so he cannot witness the meteor shower), Keel must come to grips with the not only the horrors of a world gone mad, but the horrible carnivorous plants as well! They come to life and attack the people. They can move and are attracted to any sound. The story also follows a sub-plot of a disillusioned couple living in a lighthouse, stranded, and surrounded by deadly Triffids! For you sci-fi trivia buffs, look for a young Carol Ann Ford, who a year later would be the first of Doctor Who's many companions as the Doctor's (William Hartnell), niece Susan Foreman.
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Summary: LOOKING FOR A BAD FILM WITH FEW REDEEMING QUALITIES?
Review: This movie is just begging for the folks from "Mystery Science Theatre" to take a seat in the front row. Killer plants from outer space terrorize Earth and dismay movie fans everywhere. How do these plants manage to stay rooted while transversing across Europe? Don't ask but they need not be plants for all their maneuverability. Why not killer frozen TV dinners from outer space? How about terrifying air freshener from Mars? The plants, kind of a cross between walking cactuses and seaweed, are finally lured away by a Spanish ice cream truck with a melody that sounds like the tune from "Close Encounters of The Third Kind" as sung by an out of key doorbell. It gets no better than this for lovers of bad film. Favorite line: As a scientist is dissecting a plant to learn it's origin, he screams in exasperation, "Dammit, I'm not even a botanist!" I howled.
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Summary: LOOKING FOR A BAD FILM WITH FEW REDEEMING QUALITIES?
Review: This movie is just begging for the folks from "Mystery Science Theatre" to take a seat in the front row. Killer plants from outer space terrorize Earth and dismay movie fans everywhere. How do these plants manage to stay rooted while transversing across Europe? Don't ask but they need not be plants for all their maneuverability. Why not killer frozen TV dinners from outer space? How about terrifying air freshener from Mars? The plants, kind of a cross between walking cactuses and seaweed, are finally lured away by a Spanish ice cream truck with a melody that sounds like the tune from "Close Encounters of The Third Kind" as sung by an out of key doorbell. It gets no better than this for lovers of bad film. Favorite line: As a scientist is dissecting a plant to learn it's origin, he screams in exasperation, "Dammit, I'm not even a botanist!" I howled.
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Summary: Attack of the Rubber Walking Plants
Review: This movie wasn't too bad, being a classic B-rated sci-fi thriller from out of England. Day of the Triffids, based on the similarly named novel, was actually better than most Brittish B movies I've seen. The movie is pretty good the first time around, but eventually, it does get warn out. If you think this movie is great, buy it. If you haven't seen it yet, it'll be on TNT plenty times.
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Summary: NOT THE VERSION YOU WANT
Review: Two movies were made based on Wyndham's wonderful book. This is the pitiful one. This movie bears virtually no relationship to the book with a radically changed (and ruined) plot. If you can find the OTHER version, buy it -- quite good. Keywords for the bad version - made in 1963, Howard Keel, sailor and lighthouse.
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Summary: Movie made twice - this is the bad version
Review: Two movies were made based on Wyndham's wonderful book. This is the pitiful one. This movie bears virtually no relationship to the book with a radically changed (and ruined) plot. If you can find the OTHER version, buy it -- quite good. Keywords for the bad version - made in 1963, Howard Keel, sailor and lighthouse.
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Summary: Day of the Triffids
Review: Wonderful 1960's science fiction movie based on John Wyndam's book. The film follows the book's plot reasonably well. In a world gone blind beset by killer plants, Howard Keel tries to save what he can and hold the line until help arrives. A classic 1960's film that I am pleased to see return to availability when so many other classics have gone out of print. After I wrote this review, I viewed this version and was not pleased with the poor quality of the film. See my other review about this particular copy for more details.
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Summary: Interesting but nothing like the book
Review: Wyndam's original book is still a very effective and frightening book which has lost none of it's freshness even though it is nearly 50 years old. This film is a fairly good story, although badly executed and with poor effects even for the early sixties, but it is very unfaithful to the book which actually focuses on the survival of a small number of survivors of a global calamity and the moral choices they face in how to deal with the millions of still alive, but doomed, blinded people. This film with its simplified story and happy ending does none of these things but is an average early 60s British SF film. However, if it interests you read the book and if you get a chance watch the 1981 BBC adaptation (not regrettably on video) for a much more faithful adaptation.
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