Post by Groundhog Phil on Oct 4, 2022 14:46:58 GMT
There is of course the 1951 but this is the one I saw always repeated growing up, with Howard Keel
Based on the novel by John Wnydham and directed by Steve Sekely. Irrational fear of plant eating monsters growing up? Probably stemmed from this. Betweeen this and pod people from Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978) maybe don't talk to your plants or nature them! Imagine (Much like 28 days later) waking up from an eye opeartion and the rest of the hospital is upside down and disserted and everyone is blind!
With the majority of this film being based in the UK as well as some filming in Spain, as a native of the former I can say this is probablly would would happen in a crisis! Everything very authoritarian and and just serious announcements over tannoys! It's quite interesting the ide of those who didn't go blind meeting up and joining up, having too as the rest of the world stubles about. What would you do if suddenly all the public transport, fire & rescue and armed forces were all out of action?
Apart from maybe one explosion the effects are pretty good for the day, and the pandemoneum, especially like that on the plane (Curse that child!). There are some shots of course that have aged badly, but that@s to be expected for something made in the 1960s. Also the threat of world domination not just where the film is set makes the threat feel like a much larger scale planet-wide endangerment.
So what do you think of it if you've seen this film?
Based on the novel by John Wnydham and directed by Steve Sekely. Irrational fear of plant eating monsters growing up? Probably stemmed from this. Betweeen this and pod people from Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978) maybe don't talk to your plants or nature them! Imagine (Much like 28 days later) waking up from an eye opeartion and the rest of the hospital is upside down and disserted and everyone is blind!
With the majority of this film being based in the UK as well as some filming in Spain, as a native of the former I can say this is probablly would would happen in a crisis! Everything very authoritarian and and just serious announcements over tannoys! It's quite interesting the ide of those who didn't go blind meeting up and joining up, having too as the rest of the world stubles about. What would you do if suddenly all the public transport, fire & rescue and armed forces were all out of action?
Apart from maybe one explosion the effects are pretty good for the day, and the pandemoneum, especially like that on the plane (Curse that child!). There are some shots of course that have aged badly, but that@s to be expected for something made in the 1960s. Also the threat of world domination not just where the film is set makes the threat feel like a much larger scale planet-wide endangerment.
So what do you think of it if you've seen this film?