About The Movie With computer-generated imagery, perhaps the time has come to remake the film version of John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids. The 1963 screen adaptation, written by Oscar-winning writer Philip Yordan and directed by Steve Sekely, is generally considered a bungle.
Reflecting its relatively modest budget, the film's treatment of the nightmarish story never quite finds a convincing way to depict the terror in the idea of huge plants taking on predatory lives of their own.
Made in England in a manner consistent with the Hammer films of the day, The Day of the Triffids stars Howard Keel -- once the singing hero of MGM musicals -- as the Bill Masen character, with Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Mervyn Johns and Kieron Moore. The film is also known, variously, as Revolt of the Triffids and Invasion of the Triffids, reflecting its sensational tone and the absence of the more reflective aspects of Wyndham's book.
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