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Then the film is strangely compelled to stray all over the map, with trips to France and Spain that have no discernible purpose. Director Steve Sekely's original cut was adjudged so disastrous that an uncredited Freddie Francis was brought in to shoot a whole new subplot, featuring Keiron Moore and Janette Scott in a vine-besieged lighthouse, to thread through the old footage. The results are less satisfying than the later BBC serial adaptation, but it still has some irresistible end-of-the-world and killer-plant material. --Kim Newman
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 27 April, 1963 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Best Buy Movie DVD |
| FEATURES: | PAL |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
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Customer Reviews of The Day of the Triffids [Region 2]
Good story, but movie needs some help As much as I liked the book, and the whole idea of triffids, it could have been done a lot better. Also, this movie has some of the absolute worst movie music I have ever heard. I watched with the sound muted a good part of the time. Let's hope somebody remakes it soon.
This version from Cheezy.... missing audio ?
Note: I really liked this movie as a kid ..and i still love it now...but
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>I bought the Day of the Triffids, the version put out by a company called cheezy or something....Hey the movie looks great compared to other version, but the last 20 minutes there is no audio, i dont know if its only my copy that has the problem, but i was really dissapointed. If anybody else had that audio problem, please leave me a comment.
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crude, but this is the stuff of memories
I saw this as a memento to childhood delight, as I vividly recall seeing it with my best pal when it came out. There are wonderful images in it, of the greasy, mysteriously menacing plants striking blind beauties while society falls apart around them.
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>Of course, if your standard is not to re-live a wonderful time as a child in a cinema of screaming and laughing children, this film will probably do very little for you. Viewed more cooly from my vantage as a middle-aged film buff, it is pretty weak as sci-fi. Little is explained - the meteors somehow cause both blindness and a bizarre transformation in the triffids - and after the chaos of a society falling apart, the plot takes weird twists. One group that the narrative follows forms a kind of family and inexplicably heads to southern europe, where after much danger they escape. The other actors are a troubled couple of scientists, who miraculously discover that salt water dissolves the triffids after much failed study, again inexplicably. And the effects! Very bad compared to what is available today.
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>Recommended for purposes of nostalgia only, unless you are a connoisseur of clunky monster flicks over lots of beer.