Die Triffids – Pflanzen des Schreckens (TV Mini Series 2009)

Die Triffids – Pflanzen des Schreckens: Created by Richard Mewis. With Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Eddie Izzard, Brian Cox. With most of the world blinded and the dangerous carnivorous Triffids set loose, it falls upon a band of scattered survivors to fight this plant invasion and the madness following.

“With modern production capabilities, this version could have been the most brilliant rendering of Wyndhamu0026#39;s book, but it wasnu0026#39;t. The CGId triffids from the leaves upwards were fair depictions of Wyndhamu0026#39;s description but the speedily creeping tendrils at the bottom were more reminiscent of the Evil Dead than the Day of the Triffids. The lack of the three stumpy legs on which the plants u0026#39;hobbleu0026#39; and (through which they obtained the name Tri-ffed), as well as the hammer appendages through by they communicate with an indecipherable and creepy kind of Morse code (replacing this with typical Bug-Eyed-Monster growls), really wrecked the essence of the title. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhat we got was not u0026#39;The Day of the Triffidsu0026#39; but u0026#39;The Night of the Salivating Foxgloveu0026#39; As normal, the script suffered from u0026#39;BBC Diseaseu0026#39; – the sacrificing of literary accuracy for u0026#39;Social Relevanceu0026#39;, which was taken to such extremes that it threw away any relationship with the original story and could only be described as supremely silly.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEagerly anticipated, a sad anticlimax! better by far is the 1981 production starring John Duttine.”