Friday 20th May THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS and eco horror

Tom Goodwin (to Karen): Keep behind me. There’s no sense in getting killed by a plant.

For the first night of the UK Green Film Festival we’ll be showing Steve Sekely’s The Day of the Triffids (1962), the original film version of John Wyndham’s 1951 catastrophic novel, above. The film starts at 10.30pm, but come to the cinema early for a drink and a slice of Triffid cake designed by Cakes & Crunk!

We will have real carnivorous plants on display in the cinema bar and in the square outside, and will also be showing some rare book covers and botanical illustrations from the John Wyndham archive at the University of Liverpool.

Eco-horror/ Triffid costumes please! If you want to know some more about eco-horror, see the ‘Paranoia Paradise’ chapter in Kim Newman’s Nightmare Movies (1988), Sean Cubitt’s EcoMedia (2005), or Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann’s Ecology and Popular Film (2009).

10.30pm, Friday 20th May, Shortwave Cinema, Bermondsey Square