The Day of the Triffids (1963)
Directed by Steve Sekely
After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
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Other touchstones include the fiction of John Wyndham (“Village of the Damned,” “The Day of the Triffids”), plus big dollops of “ Invasion of the Body Snatchers ” (both the 1956 and 1978 versions) and a bit of John Carpenter’s “The Thing,” plus many other references, even to chopsocky classics.
Caught in a city populated by freaky robotlike denizens (with headlight eyes that recall both the three Snatchers films and the John Wyndham adaptation The Day of the Triffids), the boys see no other choice than to continue their bar-hopping until they can escape, though one suspects that Gary really is more interested in binge-drinking than in coming out alive.
Numerous plot elements recall "The Day of the Triffids" and "Night of the Living Dead."
Until 28 Days Later came along, I didn’t realize how much I missed movies like Panic in the Year Zero!, No Blade of Grass, Night of the Living Dead and The Day of the Triffids.