The Day of the Triffids
(1963)
★ 6.1 IMDb · 197 votes
Year: 1963
Runtime: 93 мин
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Steve Sekely
Cast: Howard Keel, Janina Faye, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Mervyn Johns, Кирон Мур, Ewan Roberts, Alison Leggatt, Geoffrey Matthews, Gilgi Hauser
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.
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.