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Summary: Dioxin-free plants that mutate to destroy mankind
Review: One of the most amazing scary movies of all time. Next time you water your plants - just think, it may turn on you and devour you even though you have nurtured it lovingly. Be careful - be very,very careful: it may well be a triffid.
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Summary: Attack of the Giant Asparagus
Review: One other review and they use the asparagus line!!! Well, maybe my perceptions aren't really all that unique, after all. "Day of the Triffids" was my Halloween rental this year. It's good campy fun, and although it's been many a year since I've read the (quite good as I recall) book, I didn't get the impression that it did its source work as great an injustice as some other reviewers seem to feel. Today's audience would laugh out loud at the cheesy special effects on display in this 1962 magnum opus, and musical buffs will likely be dismayed to see the depths to which latter day musical star Howard Keel (the only name in the cast I recognized at all) had sunk. And how the heck did the couple in the lighthouse ever get off that damn island anyway? Let alone share their discovery about how to kill this evil weed. Don't expect answers. This movie is clunky, awkwardly acted and poorly edited--but it's good fun in the way only late 50s-early 60s horror or sci-fi flicks could be. See it with someone you love to laugh with.
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Summary: Attack of the Giant Asparagus
Review: One other review and they use the asparagus line!!! Well, maybe my perceptions aren't really all that unique, after all. "Day of the Triffids" was my Halloween rental this year. It's good campy fun, and although it's been many a year since I've read the (quite good as I recall) book, I didn't get the impression that it did its source work as great an injustice as some other reviewers seem to feel. Today's audience would laugh out loud at the cheesy special effects on display in this 1962 magnum opus, and musical buffs will likely be dismayed to see the depths to which latter day musical star Howard Keel (the only name in the cast I recognized at all) had sunk. And how the heck did the couple in the lighthouse ever get off that damn island anyway? Let alone share their discovery about how to kill this evil weed. Don't expect answers. This movie is clunky, awkwardly acted and poorly edited--but it's good fun in the way only late 50s-early 60s horror or sci-fi flicks could be. See it with someone you love to laugh with.
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Summary: Plants take over the world
Review: Strange lights in the sky, blind all humans on earth, with the exception of a few "lucky" individuals. Their fight for survival, and a way to defeat the dreaded Triffids, that seem to have taken over, is the story. Triffids are asparagus-like creatures, (alien plants that appeared from nowhere) and take advantage of the blindness of humans. They've been waiting for this day for a long time. The book was very well done. The movie is fun, if a little amateurish. Do we survive or do the asparagus (Triffids) get their revenge for all that hollandaise sauce we've covered them in for years? A good premise, an interesting story.
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Summary: I enjoyed the book after I got past the 2nd chapter
Review: The day of the triffids is a very interesting story and I enjoed it. I think that it is a very interesting story, and would like to see how they do the movie. The day of the triffids is a bit dated in the content it uses more 50's stuff but has some ideas of a Sci-fi book. END
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Summary: is there a clean copy of this film around??????
Review: The film itself has always been kind of silly but ive always liked it ..but the video and audio quality on this DVD are truly terrible and i had hoped after the terrible quality of the VHS that the DVD would be better but ohhhh well if you have the VHS don't bother to buy the DVD...
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Summary: Blooming ...
Review: The images bloom and fade and blur and fade out and....
One minute to the next the image gets lighter, darker
and the colors change. Over all very poor editing.
Simple editing with non professional software could have
done better.
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Summary: Triffids Good / DVD Bad
Review: The movie itself is an excellent example of a good movie made from a superior Science Fiction book by John Wyndham (although there was no easy end to the menace in the book and there are other key differences). The movie is well executed and tense, with a really great portrayal of a world infested with monster plants that can move and roam the countryside. With most of the population blinded by light from a comet, it is an epic disaster. Part of the joy of DVD is that often, films are shown in better quality than fans have ever been able to see them before(like the great DVD of the movie THEM). Sadly, this release is a major disappointment. It appears to be a bad transfer from a very, very bad print, very low resolution and lousy focus. Videotape quality at best and Full-Screen only format. Just awful - What a Shame! Avoid this release and wait for a restored version to come out, which I am hoping will happen if enough fans want it. I can't believe there are no prints of the film better than this muddle. It's quite a let-down...
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Summary: The best "plant menace" film.
Review: This film version of John Wyndham's novel does not quite live up to its potential, but is reasonably well done and enjoyable. The basic gimmick (giant poisonous plants menacing a world in which 99 percent of the population has suddenly gone blind) cannot help but provide some excitement, and a few scenes are very effective -- the streets of London in shambles due to sudden mass blindness, the arrival of a train filled with blind passengers and crew, etc. But the "triffids" themselves are un-convincing. A 1981 TV version was better in most respects.
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Summary: Looks better on LASERDISC!!!
Review: 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.
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