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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

best movie i've ever seen.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

It was in colour! It looked fine for an older film, pretty soft but fine I guess. I didn't really like the music but other than that it was fine. I liked the idea of them going blind but the plants weren't that creepy. It lacked the old-school special effect that I was looking forward to!

Day of the Triffids was an excellent John Wyndham novel that, in the grand tradition, had been adapted for the screen here with many changes. The result is a story that has been simplified into an alien invasion movie. There is nothing particularly strange about this process though as even today screen adaptions of novels take substantial liberties in the transition. But my advice would nevertheless be to seek out the book as it is one of the great sci-fi novels of its era. The story here has a spectacular meteor shower blinding the population of Earth, except those who did not view it. At the same time, giant carnivorous alien plants called Triffids begin to dominate this world where the blind make easy prey. The story sort of makes me think of the later sub-genre of film, the zombie apocalypse movie. Both share aggressors who are multitudinous, murderous, unrelenting and with one-track minds; while those films also share the survivalist story lines where small groups of people must work out a way to successfully navigate the pandemic that sweeps their world.The Triffids do make for good monsters in what is essentially a creature-feature. The effects are a bit clunky at times but for its era this is still okay and shot in colour which wasn't exactly a given for this type of fayre in the early 60's. Like the original story it is set in Britain, although in the action does relocate to France and Spain latterly. But like a number of British genre films of the time such as the Quatermass films, this one features an American in the lead role as a means to no doubt make the product more marketable in the United States, in this case we have Howard Keel as the most pro-active survivor. It's a film that does work best in its earlier section where we witness the devastation of the meteor incident with hordes of blind milling around London helplessly in various locations, while we also see the early indicators of the dangers the Triffids present, they themselves are introduced in an atmospheric opening attack in a large indoor botanical garden. There is also a separate plot strand with a couple of scientists stranded in a lighthouse on a rock in the sea, needless to say our plant monsters make it out there, causing all manner of terrors. There is some decent suspense generated in this one at times and the production values are good enough overall. It's really quite an entertaining low-brow adaption of an ambitious book; taken for what it is, it's kind of fun.

Sekely had a knack for the eeriness, and his work here is chilling, the plot was too good to spoof it in the '40s fashion; the movie has a neat look. The main objection against the idea, namely that plants aren't scary, doesn't hold, since the Triffids are shown as a hybrid form of life, and the scientist utters both things (protesting against being killed by a plant, and stating that the Triffids aren't only plants); but the illness is scarier than the moving plants.If the plants don't look too threatening as shape (but neither did the zombies, nor other weird menaces in the cinema which hosted Sekely's 1st movies from the freer world), their assaults are, also as mirrored by the sightless people in the railway station, who cling to their prey and follow the sound, guide themselves by the sound.But his movie is also engrossing, and conveys a sense of drama, and of peril, the scenes in the French house are awesome, glowingly surreal; a very intriguing actress as the French host (then, Keel's travel companion). The eeriness of the scenes, in the hospital, on streets, in the railway station, in the French mansion, is also exquisitely conveyed; the novelist outdid Wells, delivering not one, but two plagues. The novel's storyline had to be sampled for the screen.Because of H. Keel's fitness for a physical role, Sekely's movie became also an ancestor of the disaster movies. Keel proved being an awesome choice for the leading role; he was the antipode of Marvin, the direct opposite of him, and a kind of a _proto-Chevy Chase, with a humorous gleam. Keel does a very good role, precisely as we know him: athletic and sage.Very good movie; if it's Sekeley's most famous, it deserves. The plants' attack is well foreboded in the railway station.6 ½ yrs ago I have read a novel by the author, but not this one. Therefore, I didn't know the plot, save for the threatening plants of its title; to me, the movie wasn't an adaptation, and I didn't check it as such. I realized how much the story is indebted to Wells: Triffids instead of Tripods, the weapon that will bring death to the invaders and end their dominion; and the _sightlessness itself gives the name of a book by Wells.

The first screen adaptation of John Wyndham's The Day Of The Triffids is a reliable British sci-fi horror offering from 1962, with token Yank Howard Keel as sailor Bill Masen.The story is well adapted and Keel, as always, is a pleasing screen presence. Production values are, for a UK movie of the period, excellent - the film is widescreen and attractively colourful. Even the effects hold up relatively well: given that giant lurching plants are never going to be easy to make convincing, these aren't bad.The Janette Scott/lighthouse sections are rather obviously shoehorned in after the fact, and the ending is glib and unconvincing. Otherwise, this is an entertaining movie.