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Article title[edit]

Why does this have 1962 in the title when there is no other DotT film ? -- Beardo (talk) 13:30, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Probably to further disambiguate it from the 1981 TV series. --144.53.226.17 (talk) 00:37, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Year[edit]

The film has been released in cinemas in 1963, not in 1962. See IMDB: [1]. -- Il Passeggero - I love to love you 08:53, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Arrived from outer space?[edit]

The plot in the John Wyndham book makes clear that triffids were an experimental species raised on earth; an early prediction of genetic engineering. Though their sting was deadly, they were not carnivorous.

A meteor shower blinded everyone on earth - or at least, everyone in this Britain-set novel - save the hero, who was in hospital undergoing eye-surgery; he therefore did not see the meteors.

The triffids escaped from the research station, bred quickly, and were uncontrollable by and deadly to the sightless human population.

If this plot was modified for the movie version, perhaps it should be noted in this article. 'The Day of the Triffids' novel was not a 'monsters from outer space' story. It had a graver lesson to teach. Bluedawe 21:13, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think the article does already make most of these points, although in the novel the hero is not quite the only person in Britain not to see the meteors. PatGallacher (talk) 21:21, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]