Watching this as it aired (in the 80s) + disturbing scene screenshot
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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
Alex Vojacek -
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.
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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.
Alex Vojacek -
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." -
netnetbowbet — 10 years ago(October 08, 2015 06:09 PM)
I watched this film when I was 16. I had nightmares and flashbacks for weeks. My parents would not let me watch The Day After when it was released so a few years later this was on the TV and I since I like end of the world type of stories why not?
Not long ago I decided to look the film up on youtube. I figured it would be feel dated and silly. Nope. Ten minutes in and it all came back to me and I couldn't go through with it. This is the scariest movie I have ever seen.
I feel like I can remember every single frame and I can still hear the typewriter/teletype as the updates and stats were displayed across the screen.
"when you hear the attack warning, you and your family must take cover at once.." -
andyking-27096 — 10 years ago(November 07, 2015 04:09 PM)
I was a teenager when this aired in 1984 and the prospect of nuclear war at that time was very real. This film absolutely scared the living bejesus out if me and I was left depressed for several weeks afterwards. Simply put, this film has mentally scarred me for life and even a reminder if it now brings me out in a cold sweat.
I'd rather be have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. -
suckitandsee25 — 10 years ago(November 07, 2015 05:01 PM)
My Uncle told me about this film a few years ago and said it was terrifying, I watched it to try and prove him wrong but honestly? It IS the scariest thing I have seen because the prospect of this happening is sadly, all too real. I remember as I was watching it thinking 'If this happens, I am going to kill myself.'
I'm surprised we didn't see any suicides to be honest as I'd imagine quite a few people would choose that option, especially if they have lost everyone.