Just watched both these films on the Sci-Fi Channel and BBC1, respectively. The Day of the Triffids is an early 60s sci-fi B-movie about the entire population of the world (with a few exceptions) being simultaneously blinded by a meteor shower and invaded by a large number of giant man-eating, walking (or rather shuffling) plants. Complete rubbish of course, but very entertaining and, in places, fairly scary – especially the bit where thousands of Triffids swarm all round a house in which the heroes are holed up, looking like an invading army of oversized carnivorous leeks.
Enigma is set at Bletchley Park, the centre of British code-breaking during World War II. It manages to convincingly weave together a love story, a spy story and a wartime epic without falling into the usual trap of mindless patriotism, or (worse) twisting the story to allow the Americans to save the day. Thoroughly enjoyable.
