Day of the Triffids

[buggalugs]

The dead old BBC version. Anyone else been catching this on Sundays? I've been quite enjoying it... its a bit cringe-worthy at times but the tension is great.

My sister described it as, and I quote: "the worst thing I have ever seen" about ten minutes into it

[FourWheelDrift]

I remember it well and have seen it quite recently on one of the satellite channels. It could do with a modern BBC make over series, Dr Who style with better effects and bigger budget, but not the Hollywood treatment.

The one that really scared me when I was young was a similar sci-fi series called the The Nightmare Man, based up in Scotland it is described on IMDB as "A lonely Scottish island is stalked by a brutal killer who may be from another world" so without giving the story away I'll stick at that. But it was creepy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4GzFe3-uNc (all of the episodes are there I think as well)

[MrV]

FourWheelDrift said:

I remember it well and have seen it quite recently on one of the satellite channels. It could do with a modern BBC make over series,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4GzFe3-uNc (all of the episodes are there I think as well)

Your be glad to know it is getting one

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/sto...

[becksW]

I remember being allowed to stay up and watch is as a kid (could only have been 6-7yrs) Always had a love of horror! I watched the first two episodes the other day and whilst it has obviously dated I still felt it was well done. Missed it this week though.

[Eric Mc]

What about the 1950s movie version - which stared singer Howard Keel?

[onomatopoeia]

Eric Mc said:

What about the 1950s movie version - which stared singer Howard Keel?

Awful. Took the original story, threw away everything after chapter 1 and turned it into a pan-european travelogue. With triffids.

[SkinnyBoy]

I remember as kids me and my sister were playing in the park and heard a noise not unlike the signature "woodpecker" noise the Triffids made, my sister nearly st her self when I screamed, run!! its a Triffid!

[Eric Mc]

onomatopoeia said:

Eric Mc said:

What about the 1950s movie version - which stared singer Howard Keel?

Awful. Took the original story, threw away everything after chapter 1 and turned it into a pan-european travelogue. With triffids.

That about sums it up

But it scared the pants off me as a kid all the same - especially as I saw it in the cinema - and we had to walk home, in the dark, past lots of trees, bushes and hedges.

[Balmoral Green]

There was a second movie too, made in the mid sixties IIRC. I have a vague memory that the hero drove a cream coloured Ford Consul/Zodiac MKII Farnham estate in it.

[FourWheelDrift]

Balmoral Green said:

There was a second movie too, made in the mid sixties IIRC. I have a vague memory that the hero drove a cream coloured Ford Consul/Zodiac MKII Farnham estate in it.

That would be the Howard Keel movie, it was made in 1962. These are the cars listed, but there might have been others - http://imcdb.org/movie_55894-The-Day-of-the-Triffi...

[Romanymagic]

MrV said:

FourWheelDrift said:

I remember it well and have seen it quite recently on one of the satellite channels. It could do with a modern BBC make over series,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4GzFe3-uNc (all of the episodes are there I think as well)

Your be glad to know it is getting one

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/sto...

Evidently the first part airs on BBC on 30th August 2009.

[FourWheelDrift]

I'm hoping it's not a big disappointment.

[Halb]

Me too. Loved the original series, and the book. I also read the book, The Day of the Triffids, which I thought was a fine follow-up.

[TheEnd]

I didn't realise until it was pointed out, but 28 days later is essentially a remix of the film (guy wakes up in hosiptal, meets a few survivors, and make their way to an Army RV point)

[rowlo]

I too am hoping that the new DOTT will be good. Ive always been a massive fan of the original BBC 6 parter and liked how it was so closely allied with the book. Fingers crossed the new version wont involve the british army like so many other recent TEOTWAWKI efforts...

[buggalugs]

Just realised that they're not putting this on iplayer Maybe its too much of a ball ache to digitise or something?