Well, I'm not sure about rental but Amazon UK is selling 3 series of Survivors and Day of the Triffids (that's with Triffids - but i suppose you could expurgate them!) so i might have to decide which series gets my money.
In terms of scariness (ie the thought that this really could happen), i think Survivors probably has the edge. DOTT requres two unlikely events to occur - the mass sudden blindess and the walking, genetically mutated and deadly plants, and the suspension of disbelief. Germ warfare / terrorism has been a possibility, albeit a remote one, for many years.
But reading DOTT gave me the shivers because Wyndham points out that within three short generations, humanity could go from civilisation to savagery.
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In terms of scariness (ie the thought that this really could happen), i think Survivors probably has the edge. DOTT requres two unlikely events to occur - the mass sudden blindess and the walking, genetically mutated and deadly plants, and the suspension of disbelief. Germ warfare / terrorism has been a possibility, albeit a remote one, for many years.
But reading DOTT gave me the shivers because Wyndham points out that within three short generations, humanity could go from civilisation to savagery.