A British science fiction written by John Wyndham and directed by Steve Sekely (1962), Ken Hannam (1981) and Nick Copus (2009).
After a mysterious light show, a man in the hospital for an eye operation removes his bandages and finds that he is one of very few people who can still see. Carnivorous plants are on the loose and he must band together with a few other survivors who aren't blind. Meanwhile, a darkly powerful man leads a militaristic group that conflicts with the eye operation man's ragged band of friends.
Apparently the 1962 film changed a lot of the plot because anything from outer-space would sell big in that time period. They made the light show bring the triffids from outer space. In the other 2 films, the triffids had been used as a source of fuel and had been genetically modified. The 1962 film had a cheesy monster movie charm and was contiguous in it's plot. The 1981 and 2009 films were made for TV. 1981's TV series was a little bit choppy and had giant jumps in it's timeline, but I liked the characters the most. 2009's series was, of course, "new movie too perfect" which made me hate it quite a lot. None of the videos were "good" per se (not even o.k. by my standards), but in order of how much I liked them, 1981 was the best of the lot with 1962 falling in close behind and leaving 2009 to eat shit and die. I'm lumping them all together and calling the whole wad of triffidness poor.
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