The Day of the Triffids 1962 123movies

Watch: The Day of the Triffids 1963 123movies, Full Movie Online – A shower of meteorites produces a glow that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99% of the population go blind. In the original novel, this chaos results in the escape of some Triffids: experimental plants that are capable of moving themselves around and attacking people. In the film version, however, the Triffids are not experimental plants. Instead they are space aliens whose spores have arrived in an earlier meteor shower..
Plot: After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
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	6.1/10 Votes: 8,334
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	N/A Votes: 142 Popularity: 8.39 | TMDB

Reviews:

_**Attack of the Plant Monsters**_

After a curious meteor shower creates havoc on Earth, a merchant navy officer (Howard Keel) in England is forced to contend with mobile vegetation-based creatures; meanwhile on an island off of Cornwall a troubled scientist couple working at a lighthouse try to solve the problem (Janette Scott & Kieron Moore).

“The Day of the Triffids” (1963) is a British creature feature that borrows from “War of the Worlds” of ten years prior (particularly the ending), but it’s not in the same league. While the creators did their best to create scary-looking plant monsters, they’re just not as formidable as the Martian threat in that other movie. It doesn’t help that the females are depicted as dainty, useless screamers (I realize it’s a sign of the times but, c’mon, they could do more than stand idly by screaming).

Still, if you like 50s-60’s Brit horror, like “Island of Terror” (1966) and “Night of the Big Heat” (1967), you’ll probably appreciate it (it’s on par with the former, but not as good as the latter); just don’t expect Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee.

The movie runs 1 hour, 33 minutes and was shot at Shepperton Studios, just west of London, as well as locations in London and Spain.

GRADE: C

This was solid and surprisingly very effective at getting across both the dread and horrific atmosphere of such a predicament–and would make a very good double bill with Kaufman’s (70’s) ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’. I love my veggies, but I’ll never look at a salad the same way again…

Realistic, Atmospheric and Memorable Adaptation of John Wyndham’s Novel
This is a well-told film that lacks post-1994 incredible special effects expenditures and massive overspending. What it has is a very solid story line, a number of memorable scenes and a feel of realism about it that adds a great deal I suggest to its eerie sci-fi atmosphere. Its central character, Bill, a career seaman played expertly by Howard Keel, is a man facing an nightmare. The film begins in a small typical and beautifully-presented small London hospital where he has to wait one more day before removing bandages to ensure that his vision will return to normal. Banter with a lovely nurse and his doctor turn into a prescient strangeness the next morning–when Keel awakes to find the hospital abandoned, all floors silent amid signs of damage and swift departure…Telephones are not working either. He removes his bandages to find a world without people. We learn, through his adventures and those of a couple in an isolated lighthouse off the coast, where the husband does scientific experiments and drinks too much, that a shower of meteors watched by billions, have destroyed their optic nerves and thus rendered nearly everyone blind. We soon learn that this is a worldwide phenomenon. In addition, a species of plants called triffids have developed from being small insect eating plants into towering and motile monstrosities that can sting and paralyze then absorb human beings as food. They spray small spores to propagate, are reproducing in millions and thus threaten all remaining human life. Keel picks up a young girl who can also see; and after escaping a crowd of the desperate in London and witnessing an attempt at an airliner landing turning into a massive explosion, they escapes from the city. Thereafter, their adventures deal with the plants’ attacks, attempts to reach the continent and a rendezvous in Paris and then one in Spain; but the bulk of the film involves the couples’ lonely battle with the triffids on their isolated island, and Keel’s final escape from a doomed French haven with Nicole Maurey and the young girls as they make for a submarine pickup, the last scheduled for Europe’s remaining sighted persons. The great task that everyone faces during the film is striving against all odds to find some way of defeating the plants as well simply escaping. The piece’s screenplay by veteran Philip Yordan, adapted from a good John Wyndham novel, I find to be rather satisfying. Steve Sekely directed in swift-paced and intelligent style. The competent cast besides Keel, a most underrated leading man, include strong Kieron More and Janette Scott as the couple in the lighthouse, Mervyn Johns, Alison Leggatt, Geoffrey Mathews, Ewan Roberts, Janina Faye as the young girl picked up by Keel, Gilgi Hauser, pretty Carol Ann Ford, Colette Wild as the lovely nurse and Victor Brooks, among others. This estimable film was produced by Yordan, with George Pitcher as line producer assisted by Bernard Glasser. Rod Goodwin’s musical score is powerful and well-above-average at all points. the cinematography by Ted Moore and Cedric Dawe’s gritty art direction are also noteworthy. The film looks back I suggest to previous 1950s color sci-fi efforts; but its plants also became the model for the Star Trek “This Side of Paradise” spore-producing vegetation.. And its generally serious feel was copied many times thereafter, both the lighthouse sequence and the cross-country adventures of keep and his companions. But these achievements have seldom been approached let alone bettered. Anyone viewing the film today I assert should respond to its unusual realism; complaints about a lack of multi-million dollar graphics are undoubtedly more than misplaced. The storyline was a difficult one to capture in a brief film even in the 1960s. I suggest that the makers have done this exacting task rather admirably. Scenes such as the surrounding of an electrified yard by the carnivorous plants, the airliner’s approach and crash, and the escape of Keel, Faye and Maurey from her house when it is taken over by convicts deserve critical acclaim. I judge this effort to be one of the most underrated of sci-fi films of all time.

Intriguing Killer Plant Flick
Bill Mason is sedated following an eye operation at a London hospital when there is a fantastic night-time meteor shower. He wakes up the next morning to find everyone who witnessed the shower is blind, and the world is quickly slipping into anarchy. To make matters worse, triffids – large, poisonous plants capable of slow, lumbering movement – are spreading like wildfire and attacking the helpless population. After rescuing a young girl who can also see, the two set off across Europe to search for the future.

Scary science-fiction thriller, adapted from a tremendous novel by John Wyndham, has all sorts of terrifying and inventive themes going on; the end of the world, alien invasion, the revolt of nature, the complacency and impotency of mankind – a brilliant story. The movie was not a major production but still does an impressive job of conveying the apocalypse, as Bill wakes up in a creepy deserted London spotted with pathetic figures bumping their way around. Ted Moore’s photography is excellent, as are the special effects by Wally Veevers, and there’s an ultra-loud score by Ron Goodwin which batters you about the head at all the scary moments. The unusual multicultural cast are good and Keel strikes the right balance of selfish practicality and compassion as Bill. The scenes set on the lighthouse with Scott and Moore were shot after the main production, by an uncredited Freddie Francis, but still work well. They do however commit the film’s one main flaw, by deviating from the book and providing a weapon (in this case, sea-water), which kills the monsters. This aside however, this is an exciting and thought-provoking movie, reminding us of man’s tenuous position at the top of the food-chain.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min)
Budget 750000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Horror, Sci-Fi
Director Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis
Writer Bernard Gordon, Philip Yordan, John Wyndham
Actors Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott
Country United Kingdom
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Rank Laboratories, Denham, Herts, England, UK (processed by)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process CinemaScope (as A Cinemascope® Picture)
Printed Film Format 35 mm, 8 mm (anamorphic)