This movie is awful....

Yeah, that was *beep*




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At the end, I believe they plan to go to the Isle of Wight to join the growing community there, but are intercepted by a group of soldiers who intend to take charge of the group of sighted survivors. Bill is not happy with this, and escapes with his friends at night, freeing the Triffids upon the soldiers. If I remember rightly, you're supposed to assume that they go to the Isle of Wight. After that, it is mentioned that teams are dispatched to hunt for Triffids. This will continue until a more efficient solution is found (a chemical of some sort, presumably).

Salt water! BAH! If they had called it Trifficidal Syrup I wouldn't have minded so much.


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Triffids would be great filmed with hardly any music. Think of the scene in Shyamalan's The Village in which the blind girl is in the forest, and the 'beast' (Brody) is in the background stood next to a tree, sniffing around, trying to find her. All you can hear is the crackling of twigs, the breathing of the beast, etc. I imagine the Triffids to behave a lot like this. They could be TERRIFYING if directed well (I personally think Shyamalan would do a good job, though he seems to like doing his own stories!). Imagine the scene above, but instead with Bill (no idea what actor :P) with his back to a wall in a street in London, and in the background, around a corner, stands a Triffid, PERFECTLY still, then all of a sudden it starts 'shuffling' forward.

"There isn't any 'everything gets fixed' ending. It's a lot like the ending to 28 Days Later..."

I haven't seen 28 DAYS LATER yet but it is on my list, but your comment brought to mind Frank Darabont's adaptation of Stephen King's novella THE MIST. In the novella, once the refugees are in the car (losing several of their number just to get there), King leaves the fate of everyone still alive at that moment up in the air and there are a LOT of loose ends he chose to leave untied.

Darabont, a director who knows King's material and should have known better, opted for resolution. I won't reveal what it is here, but suffice it to say that as a resolution it is unsatisfactory and I found it a major disappointment especially since the film that went before was so good.

It's been some years since I saw the 1981 made-for-British-television version, which ran three hours, was shown as a mini-series, and managed to encompass the entire novel in a way that a theatrical release film probably could not have done. Sometimes the "what if..." ending is the best way to go, particularly when the plot is apocalyptic as in DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS and THE MIST and I think 28 DAYS LATER fits that category as well.




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Was'nt there an episode of Twilight Zone or Outer Limits that had poisonous unstopable plants from space that in the end are killed by ordinary rain?I wonder if the just ripped the ending off from that?

Ive just watched this film and thought that it was a bit of a let down. It had some good parts and ideas, but most of it was pretty bad.

How did the triffids grow on that small island, which was surrounded and looked very wet from sea water? Also can anyone tell me where that sub was going at the end?

Cheers.

I'm actually going to defend the movie...but then I did see it when I was 6 or 7, so perhaps I only like it out of nostalgia as it terrified me. Complaining about the cheesy SFX is unfair, in 40 years time many movies that seem OK now are going to seem cheesy.

As for the pat ending - that wasn't in the original film! The movie ended like the book, with the survivors on an island and the triffids ruling the mainland. But the studio executives said it was too short, and had too downbeat an ending, so they hired another director to film the seqence on the island. And yes the "magic bullet" of seawater is absurd, but the lighthouse scenes are well done and exciting (or maybe I'm just remembering my excitement when I was 6).

For those who don't know, there was a TV series of the book made in the 1980s, and it's truer to the book in that it concerntrates less on the triffids and more on the blind world. This is a good thing, because they make the triffids look like flowers at a garden show.

Ha ha! I actually saw Reptilicus in a theater. I was quite young and I only remember the part where it comes alive in the lab. It actually terrified me as a young pup. I bet to see it now would just make me laugh.