A remaking of British flick Day of the Triffids promises to restore the monster works genre to its rightful place after the upset of The Happening . The novel Triffids , a 3 - hour BBC miniseries , has a few interesting twists on the original book , as well as the early-1980s BBC version of the tale about a meteoroid shower that blinds nearly everyone in the world . Being blind , of trend , leaves everybody vulnerable to large , flesh rust works . While the 1950s novel clue that the plants may be some variety of Soviet experimentation , the subsequent BBC series makes it exculpated they ’re GMO plant that produce oil . ( The early-60s movie suggests the plants are from spores that originated in space . ) The unexampled series , however is about peak oil in the year 2011 . This very - penny-pinching future populace cause its oil from the Triffids , and it almost sounds like you ’ll be rooting for the homo - eating flora by the end . After all , they ’re reacting to years of being enslaved by man just to get crude oil . Of course they ’re going to stick it to the homo sapiens . Triffids Remake[via Survivors web log ]
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