The Day of the Triffids (2009)

The Day of the Triffids (2009) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
178 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Nick Copus

Written By:
Patrick Harbinson
John Wyndham

Actors:
Dougray Scott ..... Bill Masen
Joely Richardson ..... Jo Playton
Eddie Izzard ..... Torrence
Brian Cox ..... Dennis Masen
Vanessa Redgrave ..... Durrant
Jason Priestley ..... Coker
Shane Taylor ..... Osman
Troy Glasgow ..... Troy (2 episodes, 2009)
Nora-Jane Noone ..... Lucy (2 episodes, 2009)
Adam Sinclair ..... Ashdown
Steven Elder ..... Doctor Kotch
Tim Frances ..... Colonel (2 episodes, 2009)
Lizzie Hopley ..... Hilda (2 episodes, 2009)
Willie Jonah ..... Old Man (2 episodes, 2009)
William Ilkley ..... Jeff
Kathryn Sumner ..... Bill's Mother
Paul Chahidi ..... Vronsky
Sammy Williams ..... Young Bill
Eva Sayer ..... Girl in Street (2 episodes, 2009)
Claire-Louise Cordwell ..... Girl's Mother (2 episodes, 2009)
Simon Naylor ..... Man in Street
Paul Blair ..... Man in Street
Tony Maudsley ..... Blind Police Officer (2 episodes, 2009)
Scott Baker ..... Barricade Police Sergeant (2 episodes, 2009)
John White ..... Barricade Man (2 episodes, 2009)
Andreas Hoppe ..... Prof. Edward Wales / ... (2 episodes, 2009)
Rosalind Halstead ..... Cordelia
David Buchanan ..... Henchman (2 episodes, 2009)

Synopsis:

A fast paced, futuristic and electrifying take on John Wyndham's epic novel Day of the Triffids. In the face of total human annihilation, it is down to a select few to take a stand against mankind's deadliest adversary, a foe with a fatal sting and an unquenchable taste for human flesh.

Season 1
Part 1 S1, Ep1 28 Dec. 2009
His eyes bandaged after a hospital operation Bill Masen misses the solar showers which blind much of the world's population and free the Triffids, carnivorous stinging plants used as a fuel source, giving them mobility. On the panic-stricken streets of London he rescues Jo Playdon, a radio presenter who missed the showers when she was in an underground crash, from being used as a human guide dog and they search for her father, only to find Triffids have killed him. Following an emergency radio broadcast with Jo in which Bill spells out the danger of the Triffids, they...
Part 2 S1, Ep2 29 Dec. 2009
Bill and Coker take sanctuary at an abbey, whose abbess says she wants to set up a haven for blind and sighted refugees. However Bill discovers she is sacrificing old and weak people to the Triffids to keep them at bay. He travels to see his father, collecting two gun-toting little girls on the way. Jo, having realised that Torrence lied to her about Bill's death, makes a broadcast warning people about him before escaping from London and also arriving at Dennis's. Father and son aim to create a mutant Triffid which will sterilise the existing ones when it mates with ...

It's an up-to-date setting of the 1962 Sci-fi thriller. With the world blinded and the Triffids set loose, it falls upon a band of scattered, sighted survivors to fight this carnivorous plant invasion. With a brave new world of maniacs, warring factions and renegades, the battle on the streets is not only directed at the purple-headed organisms but a battle to survive the sinister street-army headed by megalomaniac Torrence.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 19 June, 2014.