The British used to be the masters of understatement. "Oh you seem to have stepped on a landmine and now are missing your left leg, Let me get some assistance for you."
"Threads" is proof that humanity can still save itself if only as long as it can continue to imagine itself at its absolute worst as well as its absolute best.
"Some of the scenes that follow may distress you". No sh*t! I saw this when it was first aired, it terrified me, and it remains the most disturbing and memorable film I've ever seen to this very day.
I heard critics who reviewed it a few years ago saying it's 1984 setting looks dated now, yes that's true but what hasn't dated is the aftermath and with everything going digital now those threads have become even more tenuous then ever.
I can never forget the scene of the little boy hiding in terror outside in the aviary while the Mum and Dad were frantically trying to build a shelter inside. Then the results in slow motion of the nuclear fireball and the small boy melting outside. I still remember it vividly.
Curiously the bit which upset me the most was the bit with the trades unionists demonstrating before the war started. Thirty five odd years on and I'm still not entirely sure why.
@@ivorbiggun710I agree with you. I think it’s because in reality it’s easy to write off protestors like that as driven by emotion or ideology, but in the movie you know they’re right. Still processing it but that’s how I felt in the moment
“The vast destruction and death that we all *think* we know about.” The most chilling sentence out of all of it for me. No matter how devastating and horrifying we try to imagine nuclear war would be, it would, in actuality, be *SO. MUCH. WORSE.*
The old BBC was the best in the world; the new one seems to have become a victim of its own success. The BBC World Service is still priceless, however (it’d be the only part of the organisation that’s actually worth keeping at this point in time).
Because it has abandoned its founding principles. Inform, educate, entertain. It does not inform, it indoctrinates. It does not educate, it stupefies. It does not entertain, it infuriates.
god.. he was so matter of fact here. I can only imagine the shock-filled horror that came afterwards when the viewer - expecting to view a dry somewhat pedantic documentary - was instead subjected to threads.
We were shown Threads in 2010 in our A-level philosophy class. The teacher reasoned that it was a great representation of what life would be like in the "state of nature". I can indeed confirm, it would be nasty, short and brutish. 🥶😱
@@explorer806 you're making an argument where theres nowhere to make one mate. To compare the nuclear missiles of world war two to todays ones in the 80s (or even to modern ones) is inherently wrong. What if a nuclear attack WAS carried out on a UK city???? I'm not dissing your opinion, but when you're making comments involving prawn cocktail crisps and nuclear weapons, I'm afraid that tells me that you're running low on an argument. An argument started by a joke post I made involving panic buying. You're argument is losing steam my friend. Best give in on it before it gives in you.
@Michael Moretti the guy sounds like the most selfish guy EVER. A complete and utter waste of stuff that could've went to an entire family that probably needed it FAR MORE THAN HIM.
Mutually Assured Destruction. It is exactly what it says. In the event of a nuclear war no one wins. Everyone loses, and loses badly. Threads is the most frightening movie I have ever seen. The nuclear blasts kills more people than any horror film slasher say Michael Myers could ever hope to. The portrayal of Christmas after the war has ended is shocking. The few survivors in the dark, cold with no food. Santa doesn’t make an appearance to say the least. Santa probably got killed too.
My first thought on the first Christmas after was Jesus in the manger. It looked like they had gone back 2000 years as a society. This movie is an eye opener.
@@MisterMcKinney Do you know how many dead-man’s switches there are in the nuclear defense systems on both sides? If a certain set of silos don’t get a certain radio signal/code/ect. from the Kremlin/local government once a week, month, year, so on then they launch at intended targets. Same here in the United States. There’s even been reports of delayed delivery, where 10 years later after WW3 an ICBM will launch at where we think they will have started to rebuild and survive. The Russians likely have those protocols established as well. So how do you win that? How do you stop 3,000 or so missiles from launching when it takes 20-25 min for ours to get there. They will see it coming when we launch. There IS NO WINNING A NUCLEAR WAR.
Understatement of the millennium….some of the following scenes may distress you.I watched this a year later when it was repeated to commemorate Hiroshima. I was 11, didn't sleep properly for 6 months After.
The woman who pisses herself when the explosion goes off and the one cradling the doll like a baby with a blank look on her face are two moments that stick with me. Also the kids sitting in the abandoned schoolhouse watching a TV of an old VHS. So many moments stand out. I often wondered whether Reece Dinsdale’s character ended up surviving after being what looked like crushed under pallets. As the song he listens to in the car at the beginning of the movie is also played at the barn where their daughter goes looking for shelter at the end, and I just wonder if it’s him.
It was not a woman holding a doll like a baby. It was a lady holding her dead new born baby who had been burned to death, hence her palpable trauma. This image was so harrowing, even the script writers were in tears whence constructing the scene.
Threads was not just shown on BBC 2 that night, it was also shown in Ireland on RTE 2 by simucast (Which RTE 2 did with many BBC and ITV programmes at the time such as Top Of The Pops and Coronation Street). RTE 2 also showed On The Eighth Day the following night. Despite being sad and miserable looking (as well as a bit scary), it is a good film to watch. I must have watched it about 20 times at this stage. * The only good thing about BBC 2 showing Threads that night was that there was snooker on after the film to calm peoples nerves. RTE 2 viewers in Ireland were treated to the testcard, as RTE 2 closed down for the night after the film was shown, at 11.30pm (RTE 1 would have closed down around the same time).
Christ it sticks in the head....but yes it is good viewing.....i think it should be shown every now and then.....but i do have a question....i know that in england on the bbc shutdown was always between 11.30 and 00.30.....but didnt itv have MUSIC BOX at this time...
@@theaussieburwoodboy9943 In 1984, all the ITV television stations still closed down at night, usually past midnight or 12.30am. In 1985, Yorkshire Television began showing the channel Music Box during the downtime between midnight or there abouts, until TV-am started, at 6.30am in the morning. Music Box didn't last long however on Yorkshire Television, because of disagreements between the two stations. So Yorkshire Television reintroduced closedown's at night. Then around 1986, a few of the ITV stations like Yorkshire Television and Central in the Midlands of England began a sub-page of the Oracle Teletext service called Jobfinders, which was for people that were skilled and semi-skilled looking for work in their area. They first started off with showing it an hour after closedown and an hour before TV-am started each morning. Eventually, it was extended through the night. Then in 1987, ITV began 24 hour broadcasting in few ITV regions, such as Thames Television and LWT in London and TVS in the South of England. By October 1988, all the ITV regions had 24 hour television, Ulster Television in Northern Ireland being the last region to receive 24 hour television. All of the regions apart from Thames / LWT, Anglia Television, TVS, and Central, got their through the night service from Granada Television in Manchester called Night Time. The other regions had their own through the night services. BBC 1 would continue to close down at night until November 1997, when BBC News 24 began broadcasting, so BBC 1 would join them through the night. BBC 2 still closes down to this day, however, they broadcast programme previews through the down time hours. Channel 4 started broadcasting 24 hours a day from early 1997. I know in Australia on the ABC Channel, they broadcast a through the night music programme (I don't know if they still do this) called Rage. I think it originally started in 1987 at the weekend's through the night and eventually through the week. So there's a bit of information for you about through the night television.
It was after this 2 minutes of peace, that millions of 80s teens, kids, and adults in Britain would be forever traumatized by one of the most horrifying nuclear war movies since A Short Vision from 1956 and The Day After from 1983.
@Oliver Eales Scraping a bare subsistence living from poisoned land only to die before you're 30 anyway? Call THAT "survival"? The Stone Age cave people had it better.
@Oliver Eales There'd be no country left - in any meaningful sense - to be patriotic about. Your only loyalty would be to the tribe eking out a living on the few square miles under their immediate control.
Yes we watched this at school. But id also watched it on broadcast. I was a great horror fan so enjoyed for all the wrong reasons.. Lol.. It was my 28 days later of the time.
@stevegordon5689 what battery.dont you need electricity or a powered generator.both of which weren't possible.maybe a generator run on fuel but even then for a limited time.
They were both good movies. One focused on lives before the attack (build up and international issues) and the other focused on life after the attacks up to 13 years later. Does this have to be a competition? Why do Brits do this?
@@Noosic I'm American. I think both movies are great. But Threads is way more effective than The Day After. But The Day After is way more optimistic than Threads. But the scenario in Threads just feels a lot more realistic.
@@Noosic The Day After glossed over the buildup and in fact didn't say anything as to the true reasons. Threads talked about the oil in Iran and the US going in as a reason.
I remember this intro and the film that followed. It was made around the height of the cold war. Had a cold war (ww2 type) siren near where i lived which they used to test in the 80's. You just sought of accepted it at the time, nothing much you could do.
You're right, because it was an anti-war film, and the BBC today is gung-ho for war with Russia. 40 years ago we had a peace movement in Britain. Where are they all now?
@@MTB455G Saw the War Game first at School in early 1983. The Day After in late 1983 and Threads in 1984. The War Game got its first showing on TV in 1985, along with the repeat of Threads.
Strangely, I like to watch it when I'm at rock-bottom. It cheers me up.. There's something comforting about it. Perhaps it's the realisation that even if you're going through a lot then it can't get any worse than 210 megatons raining down.
I live about 3 miles from finningley airbase where the phantoms took off from. Most people in this country have only ever heard an air raid siren on a war film. All the info you got from the tv was in the four minutes you had left. Has anyone tried to run round the house in a blind panic trying to find all the items you would need. First of all they tell you to fill the bath with as much water as possible then build a shelter with doors and bags filled with earth etc. I think i would just stand outside and watch the blast and be gone in 2heartbeats. The dead will be the lucky ones.
In Threads the base was hit by a 150kt groundburst so if you had a decent shelter 3 miles could have been survivable.Unlike the 1mt that hit sheffield!
Top 1 ultimate horror film. For many reasons - the very main reason, it may not necessarily be a movie. The rest is up to mankind. Hopefully never allowing this to happen, despite the frightening levels of stupidity, greed and the inexplainable hunger for perpetual warfare...
Seeing those charred dead bodies in the aftermath comes the realisation that they were the lucky ones who didn't suffer the nightmare of surviving only to succumb to a slow lingering death, and the shock ending with Ruth's daughter giving birth to the next generation which was probably still born and severely disfigured because of the radiation.
The moment that sticks out to me in Threads is not the moments people list here. It’s before the attack. When Ruth is painting their new flat and she begins to cry because she knows this was supposed to be such a joyous time and instead she might have to live in the aftermath of a nuclear war. That’s the part that gets me. A random person just swept up in the arrogance of power and the human race.
October 9th, about a week later, come Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. I’ll bet a lot of children who saw this movie recovered from watching the first episode they saw.
This was shown at 10pm, so children wouldn’t have been watching it. Plus, what’s Thomas the tank engine got to do with Threads, apart from a tenuous and entirely coincidental link with the dates of broadcast? You Thomas freaks are fucking weird!
I remember seeing this at 18 and I am from Yorkshire so it was all the more upsetting. After the initial shock though it actually helped me to stop thinking about the situation though because I became fatalistic in the sense of, if it happens, its all over, so I am just not going to consider it at all - not going to surrender my life to fear. I am glad of this because I now understand in my 50's that fear is the method of mass psychology and control globally and this propaganda, Threads, is just one example of how the ruling elite continue to create fear through terrorism, manufactured wars, economic disasters and fake news. Fear keeps the sheep frightened and in the pen for their own safeties sake... we need protection, we must comply, our superiors will look after us. Utter bullshit. My advice is live your life in peace, not in fear. Enjoy your family and nature, create something every day. Don't ever give in to this atrocious brain washing.
"Some of the scenes that follow may distress you" Understatement of the century...
The British used to be the masters of understatement. "Oh you seem to have stepped on a landmine and now are missing your left leg, Let me get some assistance for you."
This film poleaxed my mind when I saw it as a youngster in the 80s. I couldn't sleep, couldn't plan for the future, just wrecked me.
It's still the most disturbing movie... hell, anything, that I've ever seen. I can't make it through more than half of a post-attack scene
No kidding. I was terrified, and I’ve never been happier to see the sun rise the next morning.
Yeah, Sheffield will have that effect on people.
"Threads" is proof that humanity can still save itself if only as long as it can continue to imagine itself at its absolute worst as well as its absolute best.
Going by all the “fake news” junkies - we are so screwed.
More like damning itself to hell...
Scarier than some of the best horror movies ever produced.
Threads *is* the best horror movie ever produced, for just that reason.
Very true!
...eh.
That’s why it’s on Shudder!
Dam right you are!!!
“Some of the scenes that follow may distress you”
*proceeds to play the most harrowing and horrific masterpiece of a film in history*
"Some of the scenes that follow may distress you".
No sh*t!
I saw this when it was first aired, it terrified me, and it remains the most disturbing and memorable film I've ever seen to this very day.
I heard critics who reviewed it a few years ago saying it's 1984 setting looks dated now, yes that's true but what hasn't dated is the aftermath and with everything going digital now those threads have become even more tenuous then ever.
I can never forget the scene of the little boy hiding in terror outside in the aviary while the Mum and Dad were frantically trying to build a shelter inside. Then the results in slow motion of the nuclear fireball and the small boy melting outside. I still remember it vividly.
I think that was an E.T. doll melting.
@@heene it was indeed.
Link please?
My parents allowed me to watch this and I still wish they hadn't. Went to bed half way through as I couldn't handle it.
Cmd Delete When Thomas and Friends first aired about a week after, did it help you recover?
I'm actually surprised you were able to sleep. I had nightmares for weeks.
Curiously the bit which upset me the most was the bit with the trades unionists demonstrating before the war started. Thirty five odd years on and I'm still not entirely sure why.
@@ivorbiggun710I agree with you. I think it’s because in reality it’s easy to write off protestors like that as driven by emotion or ideology, but in the movie you know they’re right. Still processing it but that’s how I felt in the moment
we were forced to watch it at school!!
“The vast destruction and death that we all *think* we know about.”
The most chilling sentence out of all of it for me.
No matter how devastating and horrifying we try to imagine nuclear war would be, it would, in actuality, be *SO. MUCH. WORSE.*
I do miss the old BBC. Couldn't give a toss about it today though.
The old BBC was the best in the world; the new one seems to have become a victim of its own success. The BBC World Service is still priceless, however (it’d be the only part of the organisation that’s actually worth keeping at this point in time).
Because it has abandoned its founding principles. Inform, educate, entertain. It does not inform, it indoctrinates. It does not educate, it stupefies. It does not entertain, it infuriates.
Back when they *actually* did inform, educate and entertain.
@4thChairman-d8p Yessir, that’s your starter for ten.
The same old BBC that employed Savile, Harris, Hall and Peel…
god.. he was so matter of fact here. I can only imagine the shock-filled horror that came afterwards when the viewer - expecting to view a dry somewhat pedantic documentary - was instead subjected to threads.
Thanks, People of Sheffield.
Your welcome
We were shown Threads in 2010 in our A-level philosophy class. The teacher reasoned that it was a great representation of what life would be like in the "state of nature".
I can indeed confirm, it would be nasty, short and brutish. 🥶😱
"Good evening".
Not if you're watching Threads, though.
The day after is a film DEFINITELY to be watched too.
@@garethwelsh1122 Only a fraction as scary as Threads tbh
@@sarahwestwood9730 I'm glad you acknowledged that threads was scary though. Unlike some people I've spoken to about it.
@@sarahwestwood9730 I thought so anyway.
@@sarahwestwood9730 just as scary
Just watched the panic buying scene in threads and it reminded me of something but I cant quite think what. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@explorer806 I would imagine they were buying bog roll too, as that is essential.
@@explorer806 you're making an argument where theres nowhere to make one mate. To compare the nuclear missiles of world war two to todays ones in the 80s (or even to modern ones) is inherently wrong. What if a nuclear attack WAS carried out on a UK city???? I'm not dissing your opinion, but when you're making comments involving prawn cocktail crisps and nuclear weapons, I'm afraid that tells me that you're running low on an argument. An argument started by a joke post I made involving panic buying. You're argument is losing steam my friend. Best give in on it before it gives in you.
@@explorer806I'd probably say that too if I could be bothered. But I leave writing posts like "blimey" to lesser mortals like your good self.
@Michael Moretti the guy sounds like the most selfish guy EVER. A complete and utter waste of stuff that could've went to an entire family that probably needed it FAR MORE THAN HIM.
😁😁😁
Mutually Assured Destruction. It is exactly what it says. In the event of a nuclear war no one wins. Everyone loses, and loses badly.
Threads is the most frightening movie I have ever seen. The nuclear blasts kills more people than any horror film slasher say Michael Myers could ever hope to.
The portrayal of Christmas after the war has ended is shocking. The few survivors in the dark, cold with no food. Santa doesn’t make an appearance to say the least.
Santa probably got killed too.
My first thought on the first Christmas after was Jesus in the manger. It looked like they had gone back 2000 years as a society. This movie is an eye opener.
Not if you strike first!
The most depressing nativity play ever.
@@MisterMcKinney
Do you know how many dead-man’s switches there are in the nuclear defense systems on both sides? If a certain set of silos don’t get a certain radio signal/code/ect. from the Kremlin/local government once a week, month, year, so on then they launch at intended targets. Same here in the United States. There’s even been reports of delayed delivery, where 10 years later after WW3 an ICBM will launch at where we think they will have started to rebuild and survive. The Russians likely have those protocols established as well.
So how do you win that? How do you stop 3,000 or so missiles from launching when it takes 20-25 min for ours to get there. They will see it coming when we launch. There IS NO WINNING A NUCLEAR WAR.
Understatement of the millennium….some of the following scenes may distress you.I watched this a year later when it was repeated to commemorate Hiroshima. I was 11, didn't sleep properly for 6 months
After.
The woman who pisses herself when the explosion goes off and the one cradling the doll like a baby with a blank look on her face are two moments that stick with me. Also the kids sitting in the abandoned schoolhouse watching a TV of an old VHS. So many moments stand out.
I often wondered whether Reece Dinsdale’s character ended up surviving after being what looked like crushed under pallets. As the song he listens to in the car at the beginning of the movie is also played at the barn where their daughter goes looking for shelter at the end, and I just wonder if it’s him.
It was not a woman holding a doll like a baby.
It was a lady holding her dead new born baby who had been burned to death, hence her palpable trauma. This image was so harrowing, even the script writers were in tears whence constructing the scene.
What puzzles me is how that vcr still worked if there was no power.
Threads was not just shown on BBC 2 that night, it was also shown in Ireland on RTE 2 by simucast (Which RTE 2 did with many BBC and ITV programmes at the time such as Top Of The Pops and Coronation Street). RTE 2 also showed On The Eighth Day the following night. Despite being sad and miserable looking (as well as a bit scary), it is a good film to watch. I must have watched it about 20 times at this stage.
* The only good thing about BBC 2 showing Threads that night was that there was snooker on after the film to calm peoples nerves. RTE 2 viewers in Ireland were treated to the testcard, as RTE 2 closed down for the night after the film was shown, at 11.30pm (RTE 1 would have closed down around the same time).
Christ it sticks in the head....but yes it is good viewing.....i think it should be shown every now and then.....but i do have a question....i know that in england on the bbc shutdown was always between 11.30 and 00.30.....but didnt itv have MUSIC BOX at this time...
@@theaussieburwoodboy9943 In 1984, all the ITV television stations still closed down at night, usually past midnight or 12.30am. In 1985, Yorkshire Television began showing the channel Music Box during the downtime between midnight or there abouts, until TV-am started, at 6.30am in the morning. Music Box didn't last long however on Yorkshire Television, because of disagreements between the two stations. So Yorkshire Television reintroduced closedown's at night. Then around 1986, a few of the ITV stations like Yorkshire Television and Central in the Midlands of England began a sub-page of the Oracle Teletext service called Jobfinders, which was for people that were skilled and semi-skilled looking for work in their area. They first started off with showing it an hour after closedown and an hour before TV-am started each morning. Eventually, it was extended through the night. Then in 1987, ITV began 24 hour broadcasting in few ITV regions, such as Thames Television and LWT in London and TVS in the South of England. By October 1988, all the ITV regions had 24 hour television, Ulster Television in Northern Ireland being the last region to receive 24 hour television. All of the regions apart from Thames / LWT, Anglia Television, TVS, and Central, got their through the night service from Granada Television in Manchester called Night Time. The other regions had their own through the night services. BBC 1 would continue to close down at night until November 1997, when BBC News 24 began broadcasting, so BBC 1 would join them through the night. BBC 2 still closes down to this day, however, they broadcast programme previews through the down time hours. Channel 4 started broadcasting 24 hours a day from early 1997. I know in Australia on the ABC Channel, they broadcast a through the night music programme (I don't know if they still do this) called Rage. I think it originally started in 1987 at the weekend's through the night and eventually through the week. So there's a bit of information for you about through the night television.
Yes you are so right on that-thank you of course!
@@europa2000man And you are so right of course on that too. Thank you!
Snooker was pretty inescapable back then.
Threads actually comes up on lists of scariest movies ever made
It was after this 2 minutes of peace, that millions of 80s teens, kids, and adults in Britain would be forever traumatized by one of the most horrifying nuclear war movies since A Short Vision from 1956 and The Day After from 1983.
I was shown this at school! Seriously scary stuff!
A living nightmare
@Oliver Eales Scraping a bare subsistence living from poisoned land only to die before you're 30 anyway? Call THAT "survival"? The Stone Age cave people had it better.
@Oliver Eales There'd be no country left - in any meaningful sense - to be patriotic about. Your only loyalty would be to the tribe eking out a living on the few square miles under their immediate control.
RazSux. Wow can't believe they showed you this at school. What were other kids' reactions after seeing it?
Yes we watched this at school. But id also watched it on broadcast. I was a great horror fan so enjoyed for all the wrong reasons.. Lol.. It was my 28 days later of the time.
You'll never feel the same about "words and pictures" again!
Don't know how they watched that without any power.
@@melgrant7404 They watched it with a video and a basic battery!
@stevegordon5689 what battery.dont you need electricity or a powered generator.both of which weren't possible.maybe a generator run on fuel but even then for a limited time.
@@melgrant7404 this was a decade later: some services would be starting to be rebuilt. Hence the primitive "school" setting of this scene
USA: We made "The Day After". It's pretty disturbing.
UK: Hold my beer.
Threads made The Day After look like a minor inconvenience......
@@angelawinwood4019 I always tell people it made it look like Mr. Rogers
They were both good movies. One focused on lives before the attack (build up and international issues) and the other focused on life after the attacks up to 13 years later. Does this have to be a competition? Why do Brits do this?
@@Noosic I'm American. I think both movies are great. But Threads is way more effective than The Day After. But The Day After is way more optimistic than Threads. But the scenario in Threads just feels a lot more realistic.
@@Noosic The Day After glossed over the buildup and in fact didn't say anything as to the true reasons. Threads talked about the oil in Iran and the US going in as a reason.
I was born and bread in Sheffield this is very disturbing to know this was once a possibility especially so close to home
This intro goes hard as hell
I remember this intro and the film that followed. It was made around the height of the cold war. Had a cold war (ww2 type) siren near where i lived which they used to test in the 80's. You just sought of accepted it at the time, nothing much you could do.
All our Politician's must watch this.
Compare this with the way our tv pundits today trivialize everything, including the possibilit of a nuclear war.
It gave me the Willie's for a while !!!!!
Philip Murtagh Ooh er.
Can't imagine the BBC airing a film like this now.
You're right, because it was an anti-war film, and the BBC today is gung-ho for war with Russia. 40 years ago we had a peace movement in Britain. Where are they all now?
They should Air it now.
BBC are showing this film again next Wednesday, on BBC4.
they did last night
USA: We made The Day After, one of the most disturbing portrayals of nuclear war on film.
UK: Hold my toad in the hole
We actually did it first, The War Game exists.
@@hokutology1718 seen little bits of that, i keep forgetting the name of the film 👍
@@MTB455G Saw the War Game first at School in early 1983. The Day After in late 1983 and Threads in 1984. The War Game got its first showing on TV in 1985, along with the repeat of Threads.
Most terrifying movie iv ever seen to date ! And a proud pleasure to own it on DVD lol
Alex Mclean Yes,the bleakest film I’ve ever seen. I won’t forget it.
Same here. I also have it on DVD. Even though I have no video recorder any more I have never been able to throw away by BBC video of it either.
I saw it when it aired in the States in 1984. To this day, I still don't talk too much about it
I can't remember watching anything that was more upsetting and unrelentingly bleak. It stays with you.
I remember the news where they showed people coming out of the cinema crying.
*Show this again!* Especially to all the world leaders of today.
About to happen, as far as I know
I met John earlier with his wife on the 19 bus at Highbury Corner.
Strangely, I like to watch it when I'm at rock-bottom. It cheers me up.. There's something comforting about it.
Perhaps it's the realisation that even if you're going through a lot then it can't get any worse than 210 megatons raining down.
"Some of the scenes which follow may distress you."
Remembers hospital/torture chamber scene.
Ya think?
I had to bail before it got to that bit. The screams were enough for me.
Fun fact - if you watch this film this week the dates coincide.
Thursday 26th May was the attack 😯
I live about 3 miles from finningley airbase where the phantoms took off from. Most people in this country have only ever heard an air raid siren on a war film. All the info you got from the tv was in the four minutes you had left. Has anyone tried to run round the house in a blind panic trying to find all the items you would need. First of all they tell you to fill the bath with as much water as possible then build a shelter with doors and bags filled with earth etc. I think i would just stand outside and watch the blast and be gone in 2heartbeats. The dead will be the lucky ones.
In Threads the base was hit by a 150kt groundburst so if you had a decent shelter 3 miles could have been survivable.Unlike the 1mt that hit sheffield!
Top 1 ultimate horror film. For many reasons - the very main reason, it may not necessarily be a movie. The rest is up to mankind. Hopefully never allowing this to happen, despite the frightening levels of stupidity, greed and the inexplainable hunger for perpetual warfare...
I TOTALLY AND WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH YOU THERE. Maybe you should tell this to Graham Fandango as I dont think he quite believes me. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Seeing those charred dead bodies in the aftermath comes the realisation that they were the lucky ones who didn't suffer the nightmare of surviving only to succumb to a slow lingering death, and the shock ending with Ruth's daughter giving birth to the next generation which was probably still born and severely disfigured because of the radiation.
I was at school when this come out my mum wouldnt let me watch as it was a school night !
"some of the scenes that follow may distress you"
No fucking shit Sherlock
"Some of the scenes that follow may distress you."
Oh, do you think?
40 years ago today
We watched this in school gave me bad dreams for a fortnight
this is bloody frightening
Aired the day I was born.
Carl Rees me too
Happy birthday 😟
The moment that sticks out to me in Threads is not the moments people list here. It’s before the attack.
When Ruth is painting their new flat and she begins to cry because she knows this was supposed to be such a joyous time and instead she might have to live in the aftermath of a nuclear war.
That’s the part that gets me. A random person just swept up in the arrogance of power and the human race.
October 9th, about a week later, come Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. I’ll bet a lot of children who saw this movie recovered from watching the first episode they saw.
I thinking the same, despite i'm not british
This was shown at 10pm, so children wouldn’t have been watching it.
Plus, what’s Thomas the tank engine got to do with Threads, apart from a tenuous and entirely coincidental link with the dates of broadcast?
You Thomas freaks are fucking weird!
Threads is the worst thing I've ever seen. It's the worst because it was possible then and remains possible now.
Isn't it incredible we still live under the threat of nuclear destruction
What’s more incredible, given how long the technology’s been available, is that we still live.
Four years to the day before I was born
Britain's very own
'Come and see'
Only The British seem to be able to look into the darkest mirror
Themselves to self mourn
Them...
Us. X
Id like to watch it again but cant find a stream and give up br years ago
It's all on TH-cam in pieces
Archive.
Dot.
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Forgot to update, i used a vpn set to usa and found it and loads more on tubitv, but thx guys
It was no joke nuclear war nobody wins every body loses im glad that cooler heads discuss the topics for real im just for all human race and planet 🌎
Threads shouid be shown to every 15 year old
Gave me nightmares when i was a kid 😅
The child born post war screams at the end of the movie and we can see she has fillings. 🤔
Lol I guess we can blame it on radioactive mutation while she was in utero
Makes sense that nuclear war is what it takes to get a dentists appointment these days.
"Some of the scenes that follow may distress you."
NO FUCKING KIDDING.
I know I had a near two year nervous breakdown after watching it.
in real life Sheffield wouldnt be a target for a nuclear strike cos it would only do £25 worth of damage
A joke you no doubt borrowed from the office?????
If they drop it on Manchester Sheffield will suffer from burns
@@AbsintheGirl27 thanks for the input, fella
Best years
‘This has never happened’ then along came the Chernobyl disaster as a small taster…
My parents are gonna watch this movie, I haven’t told them about how bad it is
Been disowned yet..?
@@uniauther13 nope, they decided not to watch it
1:39 This film attempts to explain that they wouldn't.
The Day After was a disaster movie, Threads is the nightmare reality
Humans didnt believed in hell,so they decided to create their own..
Scary as hell 😟☹️😲
Sub zero temperatures? Dude, I’m from Alberta, -40 degrees Celsius is a balmy November day.
And?
MEGADETHS
I suppose we kept the best ones, Fallout and Megadeath.
Scared e shit out of me as a 12 year old
same here. Had nightmares after it.
I'll bet!
I first saw this on TH-cam in 2009 and it's honestly the only movie outside of the Silence of the Lambs that scared me as an adult.
I know it's not the main point but the way his tie is crooked annoys me
Fallout is one of the best nuclear apocalyptic games ever on xbox and PlayStation
Threads = This War of Mine
distress you....this film fucked me up
That suit he’s wearing looks like it went through a nuclear holocaust.
Our imagination might save us from this horror actually happening: we can imagine how terrible it would be.
This guy rarely blinks, wtf...
I remember seeing this at 18 and I am from Yorkshire so it was all the more upsetting. After the initial shock though it actually helped me to stop thinking about the situation though because I became fatalistic in the sense of, if it happens, its all over, so I am just not going to consider it at all - not going to surrender my life to fear. I am glad of this because I now understand in my 50's that fear is the method of mass psychology and control globally and this propaganda, Threads, is just one example of how the ruling elite continue to create fear through terrorism, manufactured wars, economic disasters and fake news. Fear keeps the sheep frightened and in the pen for their own safeties sake... we need protection, we must comply, our superiors will look after us. Utter bullshit. My advice is live your life in peace, not in fear. Enjoy your family and nature, create something every day. Don't ever give in to this atrocious brain washing.
Very well said.
Appropriate now more than ever.
Hyperbole and fear
Oh really?! Have you noticed the current situation?
Everyone was devestated because sheffield got bombed
There's a slightly better quality version of this on BBC article crl8nj3xxp7o .