Director: Freddie Francis

Freddie Francis won two Academy Awards as a cinematographer, for Sons and Lovers and Glory, and directed a substantial run of Hammer and Amicus horror films including Dr Terror’s House of Horrors. The two careers are almost separate.

The Day of the Triffids (1962) film posterFreddie Francis

The Day of the Triffids (1962)

The Day of the Triffids is the British apocalypse film about ambulatory carnivorous plants invading a world that has been blinded by a comet. Steve Sekely directed most of the film, with Freddie Francis uncredited for the lighthouse subplot.

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