by Greg GoodsellDirected by Steve Sekely
"And I got really hot, When I saw Jeanette Scott, Fight a triffid that spits poison and kills -- "
“Science-Fiction Double Feature” from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”
Buy The Day of the Triffids
on DVD Angry asparagus plants with tentacles threaten mankind with abject boredom in The Day of the Triffids, an eloquent demonstration of all that is wrong with British science-fiction. It’s really too bad, as the previous alien-invasion film based on a John Wyndham novel, “The Midwich Cuckoos” was rendered unto film as the Village of the Damned (1980) and has since reached iconic status. That story, about cold-blooded tow-headed children born in an isolated English village ratcheted up the suspense with all manner of subtle underpinnings. Wyndham’s “The Day of the Triffids” is a run-of-the-mill walking killer plant movie, a stale relic of the Fifties adjusted to the widescreen color films of the Sixties.