| Threads (1984) 19:52 - Dec 20 with 1286 views | AG26 |
Anyone seen it? Recently watched it for the first time and was left feeling utterly depressed.
Probably the scariest film I have ever seen despite it being a docudrama rather than a horror. Absolutely brutal.
I believe it's on iPlayer at the moment. |  | | |  |
| Threads (1984) on 20:12 - Dec 20 with 1212 views | gainsboroughblue |
I saw it when it was first out and again the other week on iplayer and I can honestly say, it was as hard hitting the second time as it was the first. Grim but brilliantly made.
That early to mid 80's period was a real paranoia hit wasn't it. |  |
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| Threads (1984) on 20:40 - Dec 20 with 1158 views | AG26 |
| Threads (1984) on 20:12 - Dec 20 by gainsboroughblue |
I saw it when it was first out and again the other week on iplayer and I can honestly say, it was as hard hitting the second time as it was the first. Grim but brilliantly made.
That early to mid 80's period was a real paranoia hit wasn't it. |
Incredibly well made considering it was on a shoestring budget.
I wasn't around in the 1980s. Can't imagine how frightened people must have been knowing it could have kicked off at any moment. | | | |
| Threads (1984) on 21:35 - Dec 20 with 1076 views | factual_blue |
Yes. I remember it from the first time round.
For a more up-to-date view of what might happen read Nuclear War: A Scenario by Anne Jacobsen. It's even more depressing. She quotes Khrushchev: 'In a nuclear war, the living will envy the dead'. |  |
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| Threads (1984) on 21:38 - Dec 20 with 1056 views | Guthrum |
| Threads (1984) on 20:12 - Dec 20 by gainsboroughblue |
I saw it when it was first out and again the other week on iplayer and I can honestly say, it was as hard hitting the second time as it was the first. Grim but brilliantly made.
That early to mid 80's period was a real paranoia hit wasn't it. |
For those of us growing up in the vicinity of US airbases, the 4-minute warning was a real presence in the back of the mind. |  |
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| Threads (1984) on 21:40 - Dec 20 with 1053 views | factual_blue |
| Threads (1984) on 21:38 - Dec 20 by Guthrum |
For those of us growing up in the vicinity of US airbases, the 4-minute warning was a real presence in the back of the mind. |
Real, but pointless. What could you do in those four minutes? | |
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| Threads (1984) on 21:48 - Dec 20 with 1040 views | Guthrum |
| Threads (1984) on 21:40 - Dec 20 by factual_blue |
Real, but pointless. What could you do in those four minutes? |
Nothing, in reality. Perhaps take rudimentary shelter* if possible. In some ways, it would be worse to get such short forewarning of impending doom than none at all.
* A decently solid brick building should protect you from immediate effects if more than a couple of miles from the hypocentre. Tho, obviously, not radioactive fallout or the utter dislocation of society. | |
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| Threads (1984) on 21:58 - Dec 20 with 1021 views | factual_blue |
| Threads (1984) on 21:48 - Dec 20 by Guthrum |
Nothing, in reality. Perhaps take rudimentary shelter* if possible. In some ways, it would be worse to get such short forewarning of impending doom than none at all.
* A decently solid brick building should protect you from immediate effects if more than a couple of miles from the hypocentre. Tho, obviously, not radioactive fallout or the utter dislocation of society. |
I wouldn't want to survive.
A lack of medicine would see the end of me, and such medical help as might be available would be directed towards those who could contribute to a (at best) medieval society. Anybody, in other words, below 35.*
*That age thing may or may not be correct. I can neither confirm or deny that back in the 80s I had any further insight into nuclear catastrophe planning). | |
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| Threads (1984) on 22:14 - Dec 20 with 997 views | andytown |
Yeah, was shown it in an English lesson at school in what they call year 8 these days, so would have been 12-13! | | | |
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| Threads (1984) on 00:33 - Dec 21 with 881 views | AG26 |
| Threads (1984) on 22:14 - Dec 20 by andytown |
Yeah, was shown it in an English lesson at school in what they call year 8 these days, so would have been 12-13! |
I'm sure you all had a great night's sleep after that! | | | |
| Threads (1984) on 02:05 - Dec 21 with 843 views | tcblue |
I thought it improved Sheffield, though, so every (mushroom) cloud | | | |
| Threads (1984) on 13:11 - Dec 21 with 646 views | The_Major |
For a really depressing afternoon though, you can't beat that Threads and When The Wind Blows double bill.
I know when I worked in Princes Street in the late eighties, you could sometimes hear them test the siren that I believe was on the roof of the old police station in Elm Street.
That used to focus the mind somewhat for five minutes or so. Of course, when I realised I wasn't a slightly smoking skeleton after those five minutes, there was a sigh of relief. |  | | |
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