Blind People Are Super Scary In "Triffids" - io9 Comments

Blind People Are Super Scary In "Triffids"

idoru45 — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:16:35 PST

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.

idoru45

Blind People Are Super Scary In "Triffids"

Eric Tolle — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:56:15 PST

This is just a reiteration of the basic survival movie meme: "people suck; people in crowds suck even more."

Eric Tolle

Blind People Are Super Scary In "Triffids"

Whitt — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:53:43 PST

This scared the pants off me when I was a lad... The weird clicking the Triffids used to communicate was terrifying.

Whitt

Blind People Are Super Scary In "Triffids"

Chiper — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:16:31 PST

Whoops, my mistake. It's the 1962 version I prefer, the 1981 version shown here didn't impress me nearly as much.

Chiper

Blind People Are Super Scary In "Triffids"

Chiper — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:13:18 PST

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.

Chiper

Blind People Are Super Scary In "Triffids"

Eac_o_System — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:01:28 PST

Why is it always the minority extracting revenge in these things? Why couldn't it be people who see zombily going after blind people?!?

Eac_o_System

Blind People Are Super Scary In "Triffids"

AlfaCharger — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:08:59 PST

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.

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