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The Day of the Triffids
Horror, Science Fiction
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy classic speculative horror built around societal breakdown, practical creature effects, and ordinary people confronting an uncaring natural threat.
- Tone
- dread, eerie, tense
- Payoff
- scares, unease
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- survival, blindness, ecological threat, social collapse, human resilience
- Setting
- early 1960s, evacuated cities, rural roads and isolated coastal outposts
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