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count wimpula	the Day of the Triffids-1963	Lead	[-]
Jan 7 10 12:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	borrowed this script from the VHS box because it decribes the film better than i could... stay inside and lock the doors for the Day of the Triffids is coming!! for reasons unexplained by science,hundreds of metorites begin to fall to earth,and blind those who witness the phenomenon.the few who retain their sight are horrified to encounter dandelion like fluff known as triffids.these triffids multiply and grow into large man-eating plants that begin to march on civilzation,destroying everyone in their path,join 4 survivors of the terrifying onslaught as they search for a means of destroying all the menacing flesh eating plants. cast consists of Howard Keel,Nicole Murray,Janette Scott..directed by Steve Sekely.. truly a fun sc-fi/ horror film...i believe from england released in 1963-i first saw it at a saturday afternoon matinee when i was 12years old-it scared the hell outta me!!highly recommend to all sc-fi/horror fiends...too right!! I dont know if its available on DVD??
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Jameson281		#1	[-]
Jan 7 10 2:12 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	count wimpula wrote: I dont know if its available on DVD?? There is no legal U.S. DVD, but a major restoration was recently completed, so hopefully one will be forthcoming.
Jameson281		#2	[-]
Mar 16 10 2:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	If you're in the L.A. area in April, you can see the restored DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS for the low, low price of $500--it's going to be shown as part of the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival. Go here: http://www.tcm.com/festival/ . . . then go to "Events", then "Films", then "Discoveries." Unfortunately, so far no tickets for individual screenings are being sold, just festival passes that start at $500 and go up from there.
Peter Lee		#3	[-]
Mar 16 10 2:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Regarding the film itself, I thought it was a lot better than the recent BBC adaptation (2010). The BBC 1981 version is probably the best in my view and it's one that sticks in my mind.
pringly		#4	[-]
Mar 16 10 4:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've never seen any of the BBC versions. Are they available on DVD???? I thought the 63 movie was definetly one of the better end of the world flicks of the sixties; not as good as last man on earth, but way better then the earth dies screaming which I was really disappointed in.
Peter Lee		#5	[-]
Mar 17 10 2:36 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	pringly wrote: I've never seen any of the BBC versions. Are they available on DVD???? I thought the 63 movie was definetly one of the better end of the world flicks of the sixties; not as good as last man on earth, but way better then the earth dies screaming which I was really disappointed in. The 1981 BBC version is available on DVD. Not sure about the 2010 version, though. But I'd advise you to skip that one. Try Amazon for the 1981 version, three hours in total.
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count wimpula		#6	[-]
Jun 20 10 8:02 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	stiill among my favorite of the british horror films...watch my vhs copy this film frequently,always enjoy it,still find it very creepy! I havent seen the 1981- bbc version,im sure its great will have to obtain it...,later-count wimpula...
Heathenson		#7	[-]
Jun 20 10 9:28 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There is still a UK DVD although OOP. The copy is pretty lousy though, I'd wait for the restoration.
Bill Warren		#8	[-]
Jun 20 10 9:59 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There already is a topic on TRIFFIDS in this folder. It's always a very good idea to check to see if the movie you want to talk about has already been given its own topic. http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/454566#reply-454566
skelton knaggs		#9	[-]
May 24 12 2:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Subversive advertising.....It just looks too good! "You can't smell any reefer, can you"?
bipolarber		#10	[-]
Jun 14 12 11:18 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Lord knows that the VHS copy is a peice of crap. It literally looks like the person doing the transfer had NO IDEA of what they were doing: night scenes are so dark you couldn't see what was happening, and the day scenes were so blown out in exposure, the people in the frame had no detail to their faces. They all looked like painted eggs. God, I hope the DVD copies of this are done better! This is far too much fun of a film to let languish in a form that was destroyed by incompetent clods! "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON
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