The Day of the Triffids

About The Day of the Triffids

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.

Steve Sekely's The Day of the Triffids is a 1963 horror science fiction film. The film is filed under alien invasion, alien life-form, blindness, and meteor.

Howard Keel appears as Bill Masen, Janina Faye as Susan - Child on the Train, Nicole Maurey as Christine Durrant, and Janette Scott as Karen Goodwin. Released in April 1963, it runs 93 minutes.

The screenplay is by Bernard Gordon. The film began as a novel. It streams on Artiflix, Cultpix, and fuboTV in the United States.

Poor Things, Men in Black: International, and Zathura: A Space Adventure make useful companions to The Day of the Triffids, all filed under meteor shower. TMDB voters put it at 6.1 out of 10 across 200 votes and it carries a NR rating.