The Day of the Triffids (2009)

Not Recommended

UK/Canada

Television Mini-Series

Director: Nick Copus

Writers: Patrick Harbinson, John Wyndham

Cinematographer: Ben Smithard

Composer: Alan D. Boyd

Cast: Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Jason Priestley, Eddie Izzard, Brian Cox, Jenn Murray, Julia Joyce, Troy Glasgow, Shane Taylor

When a series of solar flares results in the blindness of the majority of the human race, society collapses and a breed of genetically altered man eating plant is set upon the world, but one man, an expert on such creatures, becomes to determined to find a way to stop them, in this mildly diverting but horribly uneven and rather loose adaptation of Wyndham’s classic novel, which suffers terribly from a lack of logic, but just about makes up for it with a certain amount of camp charm (but not quite). Iain.Stott

John Wyndham's novel was previously adapted as The Day of the Triffids (1981).