40 year anniversary of Threads (1984). Reshown on BBC Four tonight.
Also available here:
Threads (1984)
https://archive.org/download/1984-threads-remastered/1984%20-%20Threads%20%28Remastered%29.mp4
Director: Mick Jackson
Young lovers Ruth (Karen Meagher) and Jimmy (Reece Dinsdale) decide to get married after Ruth unexpectedly gets pregnant. But their quiet lives in Sheffield, England, are threatened when the Soviet Union and United States go to war. After a nuclear attack destroys a NATO base 20 miles from Sheffield, the town falls into chaos. Ruth and Jimmy are separated as the fallout spreads. Ruth must struggle to survive alone in the post-apocalyptic landscape.
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Discussion
I saw it a couple of weeks ago. I can definitely recommend
It's deeply disturbing
Very realistic. At times almost like an educational film which actually makes it more terrifying. I'm too old to be easily touched by a film and yet this did it
And to think I was imagining post-apocalyptic splatterpunk 😅
I wonder how it looks to Americans (I assume you're both Americans or non-brits at least). Wondered if you'd have to be a Brit to find it even watchable lol. There's the v similar american one too The Day After. Shame archivedotorg is down
I'm non-Brit and non-American but the world depicted in the movie is 40-year old so it's probably as foreign to anyone these days as it gets. And it quickly becomes agnostic in these regards (I need to be vague to not give away too much)