Anyone remember the 1984 BBC TV Movie "Threads"?

Threads was so good it deserves it's own thread(no pun intended).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/threads.shtml
http://www.btinternet.com/~pdbean/threads.html
http://www.unc.edu/~landon/threads.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads

more compelling than The Day After, imho.

But know everything about it.

That one was more real for me than the day after .

Especially the fact that the lead character was pregnant
and gave birth at the end :-(

Definately more of an impact than "The Day After"...

scared me almost as much as "Alas, Babylon."

I've seen all of the freakiest, goriest horror movies. I've seen The Day After. But Threads is, hands down, the most horrifying thing I've ever seen. It's sheer, unrelenting horror and hopelessness. I can hardly believe it was a made-for-TV movie.

There's a U.K. (PAL-formatted) DVD of Threads out there. It's never been released in the U.S. on DVD, but interested parties may be able to find a spare copy on VHS.

than the rather tame, made for TV The Day after. Threads freaked me out completely. Another fantasitc ant-war flick was 'When the (Wild?) Wind Blows (Can't remember the exact title'. Gritty little animation with soundtrack by David Bowie. Very emotional movie about two old English folks waiting for the fallout clouds to come. Have Kleenex nearby...

Horrifying, and probably too graphic for main-stream America.

I remember when the one of the Turner stations broadcast it. They had a panel of clergy on afterwords to counsel viewers and I fucking needed it, too.

Terrifying movie.

I mentioned that this movie and "The Day After" miniseries gave me nightmares for months. :hi:


***Funny side note, My Catholic youth group showed this to us on a retreat...nice,eh?

Fantastic, but so relentlessly gloomy.

We've had far too much macho derring-do romantic post-apocalypse literature and cinema to understand how horrible it would be after a world-wide nuclear war. Even Alas, Babylon was pretty upbeat -- the little girl got her vision back, the Winter Park residents kicked ass on the maurauders, and life went on.

One little-known nuke movie, One Night Stand, was about some Australian young people who go out clubbing and eager for love, or failing that, some sex. A nuclear war breaks out, and the film becomes increasingly depressing. At the end, they are huddled in a metro tube underground with a bunch of other scared people waiting for the bombs to detonate over Sydney.

There are literally hundreds of post-nuke stories that are suvivalists' wet dreams, complete with eroticized descriptions of firearms, rants about how the libbruls diarmed America, violent black and Latino looters, and square-jawed Manly Men Who Make a Stand. Maybe it would be like that in rural Idaho or Montana, but not too many other places!

--bkl