Genres:
Science Fiction
Horror
Release Date: 11/06/2007
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 157 min
Distributor/Studio: BBC Warner
British sci-fi author
John Wyndham's classic horror piece
Day of the Triffids was first filmed as a 95-minute theatrical feature in 1963. Though more thoughtful than most alien-invasion pictures, this tale of a meteor shower that results in huge, mutated, ambulatory maneating plants had to be compressed a bit for the feature version. A more in-depth adaptation of
Triffids showed up as a British TV miniseries in 1981. This version starred
John Duttine and
Emma Relphe in the roles played in 1963 by
Howard Keel and
Nicole Maurey. This version of
Day of the Triffids was telecast by America's Arts cable service (later known as A&E) in the spring of 1984.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
