I was looking back at some of the movies I have watched and it dawned on me that I have never reviewed Day of the Triffids. My wife mentioned it to me the other day and I told her yes, I have seen many times, but I checked and I have never reviewed it. Odd. I did a monster write-up for it years ago, but never an October Horror Movie Challenge. Let's change that.
The Day of the Triffids (1963)
A meteor shower blinds most of the population of Earth and spreads the spores of the deadly Triffids.
Our hero, Bill Masen played by Howard Keel had been in a hospital with his eyes bandaged, so he was unaffected.
The Triffids quickly overrun everything, firing their spores and killing humans. They seem to be unkillable and constantly regenerate and grow new Triffids.
The movie is a bit slow, and while I enjoy it, I am not ...ehm...blind to it's shortcomings.
The Triffids are all eventually defeated when Masen discovers they can be dissolved in salt water.
The movie takes a few liberties with the source novel. That's all I can recall, I read the novel back in the 1980s, and I am getting it; this movie and the 1981 BBC serial are all confused. Partly because I never got a chance to finish the 1981 version.
This movie is notable for being one of the first appearances on screen of Carol Ann Ford, who would later go on to play Susan Foreman in Doctor Who.
Featured Monster: Shambling Mound (and maybe Shrieker)
There are not a lot of plant monsters in the Monster Manual. Treants have a very obvious genesis, but the Shambling Mound was at least partially influenced by the Triffids, either book or movie. Though the art is more reminiscent of Dc's Swamp Thing and Marvel's Man Thing. The noise the Triffids make is what I always suspected a Shrieker sounds like, only much louder and constant.
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