Threads

Perhaps the most depressing film ever produced - what could be worse than having your country decimated by massive amounts of nuclear weapons? Saying that, it is a hugely impressive endeavour even by 1980s standards and still holds up as a highly important and terrifying film today.

Not only showing the effects of the paranoia in the build up to the attack - panic buying, protests and rioting - the attack itself and the mass confusion and terror felt, and then progresses to show what the future holds for a nuclear ravaged society, right up to 13 years after the bombs.

While this is perhaps one of the most important films you will ever see, the extra features here are an opportunity that was sadly missed. An audio commentary by some of the cast or even the writers, a documentary on nuclear paranoia or the creation of the Protect and Survive films, or how nuclear war has influenced modern day songs, films and TV would have been amazing. Perhaps they are holding back for a special anniversary edition some day??

A chilling portrayal of life after a nuclear attack, and a somewhat realistic view of the build up too. Obviously a product of its time in tone a production values but well put together and presented never the less.

The imagery showed here will certainly stick with me, even though this was set and produced in 1984. One of the best Nuclear Holocaust films that I have seen...

I was an eighties teenager when I saw this and like all of the reviews it left me shocked .I have never forgetten it and I doubt I ever will.I heard Thatcher was not pleased when this shown because it showed it in the cold light of day.I would recomend this to anybody who has not seen this yet.It is really good for its time and has the same shock value.

Threads has lost none of its shock since 1984 and though it is a great film it is so close to what would actually happen that it is practically unwatchable.The yanks had The Day After which was a soap opera movie of the week compaired to the gritty realism of this film.Horror movies may consist of ghosts,masked slashers and killer dolls, but if you want something so frightening it will stay with you long after viewing then check this out.

Threads has lost none of its shock since 1984 and though it is a great film it is so close to what would actually happen that it is practically unwatchable.The yanks had The Day After which was a soap opera movie of the week compaired to the gritty realism of this film.Horror movies may consist of ghosts,masked slashers and killer dolls, but if you want something so frightening it will stay with you long after viewing then check this out.

I first saw this on the BBC it aired in 1984. and I recorded it onto vhs. I was in this film as an extra, in the crowd scenes, this film totally believable even today, and I might add, following all the procedures that the govenment uses, even today, this film even more graphic than the American one, The Day After, and should continue to be shown, just so the children of today realise what life was, and indeed like,

Saying this makes for grim viewing doesn't seem to go far enough. Threads is the most realistic account I've seen of what life could be like after a nuclear war.

With images from day-to-day life, this film starts out creating a terrible foreboding feeling. The basic, no frills gritty feel of the film only goes to make it feel more real. It had my attention gripped from start to finish.

You might not want to watch this over and over again but it felt like an education and acts as a reminder which is still needed for todays society.

I would definitely recommend this to all.

A must-see for any and all students of Cold War popular culture. The Thatcher-era production values actually lend it some stark gravitas. This is an excellent film, though it makes for thoroughly unpleasant viewing and in my case left me feeling physically sick. Which is exactly the reaction it was meant to provoke. Job done.

Ok, so it's dated a bit and the acting can be a bit local theatre standard, but you won't get a more harrowing film. Amazing direction and screenplay, all done on a tiny budget, with images and facts that burn into your brain for the rest of your life. Films are never scary - man with knives as fingers... yawn... kid created by the devil... yawn... girls head spins around vomiting... yawn...
This film is different - it will terrify you!

Quite simply, it should be required viewing in school for everyone of us as we grow up. It shows the social and political ramifications of nuclear war in the coldest of lights - something that no other film has done - and makes the viewer place themselves in that world... a world with basically nothing to live for.

I just wish it would be shown on TV more often - perhaps instead of Britain's Lost Talent or Moronation Street which keep the stupid being stupid, rather than educating them in things that actually matter for this generation and (hopefully) the thousands more to come.

Buy it. Now.

Threads should be shown on TV at least once a year, it shows the reality of a nuclear war.

Shocking.