| Release Date: | Jul 1962 |
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| Genres: | Horror / Sci-Fi |
| Runtime: | 93 min |
| Cast: | Howard Keel (Bill Masen), Nicole Maurey (Christine Durrant) Janette Scott (Karen Goodwin) Kieron Moore (Tom Goodwin) Mervyn Johns (Mr. Coker) Ewan Roberts (Dr. Soames) Alison Leggatt (Miss Coker) Geoffrey Matthews (Luis de la Vega) Janina Faye (Susan - Child on the Train) Gilgi Hauser (Teresa de la Vega) John Tate (Captain, SS Midland) Carole Ann Ford (Bettina) Arthur Gross (Flight 356 Radioman) Colette Wilde (Nurse Jamieson) Ian Wilson (Greenhouse Watchman) Victor Brooks (Poiret) Katya Douglas (Mary) Thomas Gallagher (Burly Man) Gary Hope (Flight 356 Pilot) John Simpson (Blind Man) Sidney Vivian (Ticket Agent) |
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.
