Like Day of the Triffids, this movie highlights the idea that nature itself can turn from being beautiful into an existential threat to humanity; unlike the earlier film, it gives no reason for this violent shift. The protagonists are up against something akin to a natural disaster that occurs...
The Bedford Incident (1965) The Bells of St Mary’s (1945) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) The Big Clock (1948) The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) The Crimson Kimono (1959) The Day of the Triffids (1962) The Dawn Patrol (1938) The ...
For her SS17 collection, another Fashion East-er AV Robertson turned the post-apocalyptic The Day of The Triffids – where humans are blind and being feasted upon by man-eating plants – into dainty vines that wove their way across her collection. Having also taken direction from the 1956 ...
THE BRIEF ENCOUNTER CHAMPAGNE CHAPAUQUA CHASE, THE WHISPERING SHADOW, THE COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL COMMON LAW WIFE CRASH CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS CROW, THE DAMES DAMNED, THE [THESE ARE THE DAMNED] DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN DOLCE CORPO DI DEBORAH, IL DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS ...
But no, I don’t think anything like that ever crossed the minds of the Salkinds. It’s hard to believe this is a historical boat movie from only five years beforeTITANIC. Hell – hard to believe it’s two years before CABIN BOY. It really seems like something that had been sitting ...