NATURE BITES BACK! Pt 18: The Day of the Triffids (1981)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
This week Mike is joined by Matt and James from Journey Through Sci-Fi to talk about walking, talking carnivorous plants in the acclaimed 1981 BBC adaptation of John Wyndham's THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.
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| 0:00.0 | The No. 1881. |
| 0:27.0 | After undergoing eye surgery, patient Bill Mason wakes up in hospital, covered in bandages, with nobody around to help him. |
| 0:35.1 | Hey, do you think I could possibly have some breakfast? Room 22? |
| 0:41.1 | He removes his bandages and finds himself in a strange, almost post-apocalyptic world. |
| 0:47.0 | While he was undergoing surgery, a meteor shower rendered most of humanity completely blind. |
| 0:53.6 | While looking for survivors and other cited people like himself, |
| 0:57.8 | Bill soon realizes there's another more dangerous existential threat out there. |
| 1:04.5 | Aggressive, deadly carnivorous plants known as triffids that are taking advantage of this new |
| 1:11.2 | pandemic by wiping people out one by one. |
| 1:20.0 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of nature in horror and we discuss the BBC's |
| 1:25.6 | adaptation of John Wyndham's Sci-Fi Classic, The Day of the Triffids. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. |
| 1:38.8 | My name is Mike Munzer and as ever I am your host. |
| 1:41.9 | In this podcast we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre one sub-genre at a time. |
| 1:48.6 | We are currently in the middle of our 10th season exploring the evolution of nature biting back in horror. |
| 1:55.0 | And this is part 18. |
| 1:57.3 | In this week's episode, as that intro suggested, we are going to be looking at John Wyndham's |
| 2:02.0 | Day of the Trifids novel and particularly the BBC |
| 2:05.7 | adaptation from 1981. This will be a spoiler-ific discussion if you can track down the TV show it's six half hour episodes and they |
| 2:16.1 | are available to stream for free online I will link to it in the show note please |
| 2:21.4 | do try and give it a watch before you listen to our discussion. |
| 2:25.7 | So joining me to discuss Trifids, well who else would I get to discuss this horror sci-fi classic, |
| 2:32.0 | but the co-hosts of the world's greatest SciFi podcast, Journey Through SciFi, |
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