The Day of the Triffids

“From the nightmare novel that made the world shudder!”

A meteor shower lights up the night sky, and by morning most of the human population has gone blind. Bill Masen (Howard Keel), a merchant navy officer whose bandaged eyes spared him, walks out into a world of groping survivors, where tall, aggressive plants are feeding on people and animals. Steve Sekely, working from John Wyndham's novel, shoots the empty streets and the creeping greenery with the plain urgency of a warning bulletin.