The Day of the Triffids
by Ken Hannam
List Price:
Our Price: $19.99
You Save: $4.99 (20%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $17.68 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: David Swift, Emma Relph, Eva Griffiths, John Duttine, Maurice ColbourneDirector: Ken Hannam
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 147 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: BBC Warner
Movie Reviews of The Day of the Triffids
Movie Review: Great remake
Summary: 4 Stars
Few remakes ever really enjoy the original's status, but this remake was actually as good as or better than the original movie The Day of the Triffids.
Summary of The Day of the Triffids
All humans eat vegetables. But what if we were the helpless ones, and the plants were eating us? Following the Earth's close encounter with a comet, a meteor shower strikes Britain's population blind. Bill Masen, recovering in a London hospital from a vicious plant attack, is one of only a few people to survive with his eyesight intact. But the world he emerges to has altered terrifyingly into a nightmare where man-eating plants -- the triffids -- are gathering in force!If the notion of being pursued across the countryside by monstrous, ambulatory stalks of rhubarb strikes terror into your soul, then this British TV adaptation of sci-fi novelist John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids will be right up your hedgerow. If not, well, perhaps its more campy elements will carry the day. As adapted (and significantly abridged) by Douglas Livingstone and directed by Ken Hannam, the story is serialized in six parts, each about 25 minutes long. In the first, we meet protagonist Bill Masen (John Duttine), who knows all about the rhubarb. um, the triffids. having spent some time working among the folks who harvest their valuable oil extracts. Seems these strange plant thingies, whose origin is most mysterious, can not only walk (albeit at a pace that makes The Lord of the Rings trilogy's Ents seem like Olympic sprinters) but kill, subduing victims with their whip-like stingers and then consuming the rotting flesh; indeed, one of the triffids almost nailed our hero, which is why he's hospitalized when we first see him. Next thing you know, some kind of toxic celestial event has lit up the skies and blinded everyone who dared look at it, leaving most of the population sightless and stumbling about the streets of London (and everywhere else); only those who missed the calamitous light show, including Bill and soon-to-be love interest Jo (Emma Relph), can still see, while the triffids, who multiply in frightening numbers, proceed to lay waste to everyone else. There are some interesting ideas developed along the way, including the inevitable breakdown of civilization as the survivors struggle to begin anew while dealing with the implacable triffids. But the execution of said ideas is lacking; shot on video, the show has a flat, rather cheesy look, along with low-rent special effects (the triffids are laughable), less than stellar acting, and dialogue straight out of a soap opera. In the end, the fact that this Day of the Triffids is considered better than the 1962 film adaptation with Howard Keel is probably its principal attraction. --Sam Graham
Art House & International DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in 21st Century Science Fiction TV Shows
Count Dracula (BBC Mini-Series)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2007-09-25; DVD
Best price: $8.97
Price in other shops:
The Day of the TriffidsWarner Brothers; Release date: 2007-11-06; DVD
Best price: $16.19
Price in other shops:
Starhunter 2300: The Complete SeriesRelease date: 2004-11-23; DVD
Best price: $24.97
Price in other shops:
Starhunter - The Complete SeriesRelease date: 2007-05-29; DVD
Best price: $15.98
Price in other shops:
Battlestar Galactica - Razor (Unrated Extended Edition)Universal; Release date: 2007-12-04; DVD
Best price: $4.74
Price in other shops:
Battlestar Galactica - Season ThreeUniversal; Release date: 2008-03-18; DVD
Best price: $27.98
Price in other shops:
Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.5 (Episodes 11-20)UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.; Release date: 2006-09-19; DVD
Best price: $23.42
Price in other shops:
Battlestar Galactica - Season 2.0 (Episodes 1-10)Universal; Release date: 2005-12-20; DVD
Best price: $26.72
Price in other shops:
Battlestar Galactica - Season OneBATTLESTAR GALACTICA 04; Release date: 2005-09-20; DVD
Best price: $27.92
Price in other shops:
Battlestar Galactica (2003 Miniseries)Universal; Release date: 2004-12-28; DVD
Best price: $10.83
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
2001: A Space OdysseyRelease date: 1998-08-25; DVD
Best price: $29.34
Doctor Who: The Complete Fourth SeriesWarner Brothers; Release date: 2008-11-18; DVD
Best price: $58.28
Price in other shops:
Stargate: ContinuumSTARGATE: CONTINUUM (DVD MOVIE); Release date: 2008-07-29; DVD
Best price: $9.55
Price in other shops:
The Lost World (Special Edition) - 1960 & 1925 versionsTwentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2007-09-11; DVD
Best price: $12.30
Price in other shops:
Stargate - The Ark of TruthTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2008-03-11; DVD
Best price: $10.84
Price in other shops:
Doctor Who - The Complete Third SeriesWarner Brothers; Release date: 2007-11-06; DVD
Best price: $60.00
Price in other shops:
This Island EarthTHIS ISLAND EARTH (DVD MOVIE); Release date: 2006-08-22; DVD
Best price: $6.38
Price in other shops:
Robinson Crusoe on Mars - Criterion CollectionImage Entertainment; Release date: 2007-09-18; DVD
Best price: $27.54
Price in other shops:
Count Dracula (BBC Mini-Series)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2007-09-25; DVD
Best price: $8.45
Price in other shops:
The Day of the TriffidsRelease date: 2003-02-11; DVD
Best price: $17.59
Price in other shops: