Invasion of the Triffids 1963 A shower of meteorites produces a glow that blinds anyone that looks at it As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99 of the population go blind In the original novel, this chaos results in the escape of some Triffids experimental plants that are capable of moving themselves around and attacking people In the film version, however, the Triffids are not experimental plants Instead they are space aliens whose spores have arrived in an earlier meteor shower