Watching this as it aired (in the 80s) + disturbing scene screenshot
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sonicpopo — 13 years ago(November 18, 2012 11:13 PM)
Sorry to be so cowardly in asking this, but like most on this board, this film profoundly affected me and gripped me with a terror I've been unable to shake since. However, being morbidly curious, I am interested as to what your link holds.
Can you please say what the picture shows, as I am so scared of opening up the image and suffering a series of sleepless nights with the horror. Particularly if it's the lady with the baby. I have a fear of being stared at, and her gaze cuts right through me
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HereIsTheIsNot — 13 years ago(November 19, 2012 01:14 AM)
You know what, only after reading your post did I realise, "hmm, maybe I should label the photo better!" because I'm sure you're not the only one who feels this way.
The image IS of the woman holding the baby, staring directly into the camera. I'll update my post/thread, I should've had it labelled properly in the first place! -
TonyLaMezma — 13 years ago(December 21, 2012 03:10 PM)
I was 10 when this first aired and wasn't allowed to watch it at the time. I'm glad in a way, as I (and most of my friends) were absolutely terrified by the thought of nuclear war. I was certain it would happen, and it's certainly not something a care-free 10-year old should be worrying about.
I finally got to see it in school at aged 14. It was (and still is) the most profoundly disturbing, depressingly grim piece of televised fiction I have ever seen. -
lists-94 — 13 years ago(January 22, 2013 02:04 PM)
Like a lot of other folks here, I'm a big fan of "dark" material. I had just finished watching the remake of Survivors and someone suggested that I track down this movie. I had seen The Day After as a kid, but it didn't have that much of an impact.
I'm 43 years old and have watched a lot of dark stuff in my day.
But this? This is just about the most hopeless, dark, bleak, whatever, etc. film I've ever seen. This will be with me for a long, long time. I don't even know what I would have thought had I seen this as a teenager. Probably would have scared me for life. It has almost done that as an adult.
If the intent of the movie was to show you really can't survive a nuclear war, it succeeded. Should be required viewing of any world leaders. -
sandykmac-1 — 12 years ago(September 02, 2013 10:49 AM)
I watched this movie on TBS when it first aired. Luckily, my children were too young because I would never want them to see this as children. I had previously seen "The Day After" and "Testament", but as depressing as they were, neither of them affected me the way this movie did. I don't think I could ever watch it again, it was just that depressing. I had decided that if bombs were ever dropped, I wanted to be directly hit. No way did I ever want to suffer like they did in any of these movies and this one just plain closed the deal for me.
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znapper — 12 years ago(December 25, 2013 05:59 PM)
I've had reoccurring nightmares about nuclear war ever since I watched it in 1984 on the state television.
I was eleven at the time, when awake, I have a strange attraction to watch everything nuke-related on YouTube.
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tecnogaming — 11 years ago(March 17, 2015 01:01 AM)
I just finished watching it right now and wanted to post my experience.
Deeply disturbed.
Short bio: I'm 40 years old, doomsday freak, watched everything there is except threads, recommended by a lot of people so I watched it today, 2 hours ago, alone, for the first time.
The movie is so freaking real, primary because the way it is told, the characters, the way everything ocurrs and the perils they face.. it's so dam real that you relieve the images and the feeling of desolation several times after watching it.
I don't know if I can sleep tonight, the last frame of the movie is really shocking, the ones reponsable for this movie are geniuses, this movie shows what very few movies show (if any), the real consequences of human stupidity, ego-maniacal presidents and world leaders, playing with the life of millions of people. This movie show what would happen to "us" if they succeed in their power-mongering addiction and decide to go bananas with the world.
Threads is a movie far too real, the world of threads seems so alive that stays with you, alive in the form of realism, because the movie is as bleak as no other movie I ever watched before.
Truly disturbing, this was SOMETHING
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atclubsilencio — 10 years ago(April 30, 2015 01:05 AM)
Um, yeah.
I'm in the midst of taking a breather from it right as I type this.
I'm an avid horror fan/have a huge, possible unhealthy, morbid curiousity that has led me to see pretty much everything there is, from real horrible footage/audio online, to ultra-disturbing, if fictional, content.
Thanks to a reddit search for "truly scary films" I came upon thIs, , having never heard of it before, which was odd as I would think I would have come across this by now. And well, this has already beep me up pretty badly and I still have a while to go before it's over. It's not dated at all, and is far more unsettling than have the crap released these days which intend to frighten and disturb. The dread is just so thick, the images have seared my mind (especially the image the original posted), and god if a nuclear bomb blew up right now, I would hope I'd be disintegrated.
I rarely have to stop a film to just catch my breath or step away from it because it has affected me so deeply. I'm about to watch the rest, and yeah, not even xanax is helping me at this point.
Oh, but man is it brilliant. Just from a filmmaking perspective, it's a damn near-masterpiece. -
tecnogaming — 10 years ago(April 30, 2015 01:11 AM)
Wait until you see the ending, that will beep you up pretty badly.
The movie ends almost in the exact moment your mouth goes wide open and you exhale a WHOLY CRAP exclamation and a WTF did I just saw moment.
It is really unique, up to this day I still didn't managed to found a scarier movie than this one and I am really scared of watching it again, still, part of me want to watch it again, out of morbid necesity and to relieve the perfect moment in a cinematic masterpiece.
I would never forget how I felt after watching this movie scared, shocked, disturbed, amazed, all at the same time, really, a masterpiece, nothing comes close to this movie, for real.
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atclubsilencio — 10 years ago(April 30, 2015 03:32 AM)
Yeah, I'm feeling pretty awful right about now, while also admiring the absolute brilliance of the film itself. This is one of those films that there's just nothing else out there quite like it, it reaches a primal level of dread, despair, shock, terror, hopelessness, and deep fascination.
Honestly the ending was so grim and jarring that it took me a while for it to even register, but now I'm in process mode.
Jeeze, what an experience.
I was actually so tense at the December 25th scene, that I thought the guy in the corner was going to snatch the baby and the rest devour it, or she would end up eating it or something, I don't know, when a film can get your mind worrying about beep like that, then it's just unfathomable. Man. -
ribby45 — 10 years ago(March 21, 2016 06:27 PM)
Dear Alex,
Good golly, Miss Molly - this really freaked you out (and most other posters who, I suspect, are from the USA).
If I'd been 13 years old, I would've had nightmares for a year.
If I'd been 33 years old, I probably would've been wondering why anyone was bothering to bring children into the world.
But, I was 23, in 1984 and obsessed with my career.
Epic jerk(ette).
Just to bring you all up-to-date with the guys responsible for this piece of art:
Barry Hines (scriptwriter) has just died.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/20/barry-hines-obituary-a-kestrel-for-a-knave-author
Mick Jackson (director) is now 72.
Threads
was the highlight of his career.
Incidentally, it was made by the BBC - the UK equivalent of your PBS.
Somehow, with the prospect of another meshugge in the White House, it seems like the right time to think about this film.
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greg-233 — 10 years ago(March 21, 2016 11:58 PM)
"Somehow, with the prospect of another meshugge in the White House, it seems like the right time to think about this film."
Would anyone say there's much similarity between Donald Trump and that presidential candidate in
The Dead Zone
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tgs333 — 10 years ago(March 28, 2016 05:39 AM)
Donald Trump is of the "Duck N Cover" generation. My generation was a little smarter:
When you hear the Attack Warning get pissed out of your mind and strait underneath it (the bomb) when it happens.
While I doubt Donald Trump would or could start a nuclear war (with Russia), it does not take away the fact that his generation was taught to survive it. Not only survive it, but that it is plausible to Win it.
The first Atomic War lasted 4 days. It should have ended after day 1. However, the Electricity and the street cars were running in Hiroshima the second day after the Atom Bomb Dropped.
"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."