Threads (the film)

[Feral Fox]

We were discussing films in another fred and this film cropped up. 

This by far has to be the most realistic and scary film ever made to anyone who grew up in the 70/80s. It is so realistic its almost believable and could have happened if things had gone another way.

Runs out of steam by the back end, but the shock value is at the beginning and the actual bombing. 

 

For those who weren't around then, trust me, life was exactly like that and if political decisions had been made a different way, then there for the grace of who ever you believe in...

 

Based around Sheffield and a East West conflict where as the UK gets the brunt of a nuclear conflict. 

 

Very scary.

 

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_s8CrRN76M

 

Has anyone else seen it? Opinions (especially from those of that age!!!)

 

 

[Chris]

Never seen or heard of it, until this snake charming weatherman mentioned it.

I'll give it a look though.

[Fan of Big Tone]

I've not heard of that one but it sounds good.

[DangerousSausage]

I've heard of it but never seen it, is it on TV soon? That trailer was chilling.

[Feral Fox]

I've heard of it but never seen it, is it on TV soon? That trailer was chilling.

Not that I know of. In Fact it went through a period of being banned because in the bluntness of terms, when it was shown in 1983 it was so close to the truth the BBC refused to repeat it as the whole country were up in arms about the American bases in the UK which the film summarises as the reason for the UK getting nuked.

Chilling doesn't even come close. Anyone who remembers seeing the cnd protests on the news and then ties in the pathetic attempt at advice from the then government of what to do in a nuclear exchange, you basically realised after watching this how easy it is to be wiped from the planet.

The most scary thing is every single idea in the film is true in the sense that the local government would take control like they had to in the film. The advice of build a lean-to was printed in the papers etc...

The whole protocol of nuclear war from the UK government was used in the film, medical, water and food etc...

When Frankie goes to Hollywood wrote two tribes go to war it did nothing to settle people down. Follow this with the film and you are thrown right back into the cold war with a serious dose of reality.

[liampie]

i dont really like watching things like this, esp the 80s quality videos. i always get headaches, it does look interesting.

sorry but remake please.

[Feral Fox]

i dont really like watching things like this, esp the 80s quality videos. i always get headaches, it does look interesting.

sorry but remake please.

It would never have the same impact. The chilling part of the film was the believability. The actors just seemed like real people going about their life's in Sheffield. Cgi would ruin it. It was down and dirty because it needed to be.

As the producer said recently, when. We needed shots of burning bodies we burnt mannequins so it was as real as we could get it. When we needed the Windows of mothercare blowing in, we blew the Windows of mothercare in. Reality was what made it so close to the truth.