Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Last night I watched an episode of the old "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". In "The Price of Doom", you had a decent story and some very good actors...and a creature that looked like it cost $3.48 to make...at the most. Because the 'monster' was so ridiculously bad, it was hard to enjoy the show. It was so bad that famed sci-fi author Harlan Ellison disavowed responsibility for this episode and he asked his name be stricken from the show!!I mention all this because "Day of the Triffids" is pretty much the same experience as watching "The Price of Doom". It had a neat script, very good acting and monsters that were so laughably bad...even by 1960s standards. As a result it seriously took me out of the experience and made the film quite silly.In this near future film, meteorites strike the Earth and inexplicably make plants, triffids, turn into malevolent flesh- eating monsters. At the same time, most of the folks on the planet go blind...so it's up to a few to figure out how to survive and fight off the incredibly ridiculous creatures!Good script, good acting, dopey monsters...nuff said about this one.

There are times when a movie depiction of a book really works but in those cases the written version is typically mediocre. When the book is superb even the best directors have a hard time making the translation.Daphne Du Maurier's "The Birds" and Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting" received excellent treatment by Hitchcock and Wise. But though very well done they didn't quite get there. This adaptation of John Wyndham's extraordinary work was pretty far off the mark.The most glaring oddity is the telling of 2 simultaneous but completely unconnected story lines. I'm not quite sure why this was done but it's distracting. The actors all try hard but the poor special effects and uninspiring dialog don't give them much to work with.I still break this out and watch it from time to time but it's mainly to reminisce about innocent young minds and Saturday matinees. If you want a real treat, read the book.

I first saw this as a kid and of course I loved it. Back then a movie didn't have to make sense it just had to have monsters, explosions and for a child, relatively scary scenes. Subsequent viewings however have revealed the overwhelming number of plot holes and mistakes and seeing as I've read the book as well, this movie is fairly stupid, but good enough for a rainy day.Around 90% or more of the population is rendered blind after watching a meteor shower. I'm not even sure how that's possible as it's not dark all over the earth at the same time, but nevertheless it is what it is. Aside from a few people who managed to not get a chance to see it, no one was immune from blindness. The meteor shower has also managed to drop off a bunch of spores that grow into killer plants. The book has more detail on how the Triffids attacked the blind and helpless, but this was largely written out of the movie.Our hero, merchant seaman Bill Masen is able to see as he was in hospital for an eye operation and therefore he missed the meteor shower, along with acting classes and rehearsals it seems. He wakes the next morning to find that the hospital in in disarray and relatively empty and after coming across his blind doctor, he's made aware of what's happened. On venturing out into the streets of London he finds the streets scattered with people all stumbling about and falling over each other. If this wasn't a movie these scenes wouldn't be out of the ordinary for any normal London morning after the pubs and clubs have closed.Anyway our hero makes his way to the train station where a train is scheduled to come in and while some have agreed that the train crashing into the platform is a great scene once the blind passengers come stumbling from the carriages, however at the speed that this train arrives, it can only mean that even while blind, the driver stupidly kept feeding the engine lumps of wood or coal and didn't just come to a complete stop for safety reasons. The same can be said for the steamer still out at sea. Why continue to run if your crew is blind? It also implies that anyone who works in the boiler room or off duty crew who may have been asleep all left their posts or stayed awake to go and watch the meteors.This is just a very silly film that annoyingly strays too far from the book and in doing so stops making much sense. The couple in the lighthouse would have to be the most annoying as the woman did nothing except scream the whole time, or take abuse from her husband. In one of the biggest plot holes ever, there are Triffids swarming all over a small barren piece of rock,(not soil), that is constantly sprayed with sea water; the same sea water that just manages to kill them. No such event took place in the book.The acting and special effects are generally pretty poor, and this is yet another movie with a solid and interesting story that gets handled so badly when committed to film. This may be interesting for a late night movie or if there's just nothing better on, but it's not cinematic brilliance. It's annoying that this no longer has the same appeal to me as it used to, and I can look past the bad effects, but I can't overlook the amount of stupidity in this.

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.