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The creepiest moment in the 1981 BBC miniseries of Day of the Triffids has nothing to do with rubber monsters. Instead it involves a huge crowd of desperate blind people. Almost everybody in the world has gone blind thanks to some trippy lights, and our still-sighted hero gets caught in a huge crush of people trying to drag him out of his car. See an actual rubber monster clip, and find out the Triffids-Doctor Who connection, below the fold.
The creepiest moment in the 1981 BBC miniseries of Actually, this latex monstrosity is genuinely scary, thanks to the total darkness and the use of little touches like the drop of oily/watery fluid dripping from its stinger. Triffids was produced by David Maloney, who directed most of the best Doctor Who episodes in the 1970s, and then went on to produce the first three seasons of Blake's 7. Many fans wish Maloney had taken over as Who producer instead of the self-indulgent John Nathan-Turner. If he had, it probably would have looked a lot like his Triffids.
Actually, this latex monstrosity is genuinely scary, thanks to the total darkness and the use of little touches like the drop of oily/watery fluid dripping from its stinger. Triffids was produced by 
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One scene I remember from this production was of a Blind Woman sitting at the edge of the road trying to open a tin of Coffee. Bill took the tin away and gave her a can of Beans and a Can Opener. You knew then that she was doomed to starve.
Why is it always the minority extracting revenge in these things? Why couldn't it be people who see zombily going after blind people?!?
I love this movie, and consider the BBC version far superior to the 1990s remake. As a kid this movie freaked me out, and even as an adult it still gives me chills. Which is pretty impressive for a film about walking plants.
Whoops, my mistake. It's the 1962 version I prefer, the 1981 version shown here didn't impress me nearly as much.
This scared the pants off me when I was a lad... The weird clicking the Triffids used to communicate was terrifying.
This is just a reiteration of the basic survival movie meme: "people suck; people in crowds suck even more."
This BBC version is great, and unlike the earlier film version actually follows the book (which I read more or less once a year - great post-apocolypse stuff), rather than making a load of stuff up and getting that guy out of 'Seven Brides For Seven Brothers' to run around in a lighthouse. It's also available dirt cheap on DVD.
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