Threads (1984 BBC post-nuclear film set in Sheffield)

[steveo87]

Do you have the link to the relevant page - it throws up loads of stuff apart from that.

(Took some finding, plus when I watched it wasn't in two parts, so god knows where I found the original...)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

(Took some finding, plus when I watched it wasn't in two parts, so god knows where I found the original...)

Cheers.

 

[skyscraper101]

(Took some finding, plus when I watched it wasn't in two parts, so god knows where I found the original...)

Depressing stuff.

Cheers! haha

 

[steveo87]

Yeah it's advisable to have a visual cleanser nearby, if I'm honest....

With Wargame specifically, the worse part is its dramatic scenes are based on the aftermath of Dresden and the Fall of Berlin, as in it actually happened.

 

[skyscraper101]

Head’s up. It’s on telly again tonight. For only the fourth time ever.

Weds 9th Oct 2024 - 10pm.

 

[ghost boy]

So much better than that whack site Musky ballz offers up:

Head’s up. It’s on telly again tonight. For only the fourth time ever.

Weds 9th Oct 2024 - 10pm.

Still yet to watch this, my BH is back tomorrow after taking care of their Mum, it’s time I think.

 

[editor]

So much better than that whack site Musky ballz offers up:



Still yet to watch this, my BH is back tomorrow after taking care of their Mum, it’s time I think.

Be prepared to be shocked to the core. It's a brilliant, devastatingly incisive bleak film.

Check out this video of the aftermath of people who have just watched the film:

Threads: How the nuclear bomb drama horrified Sheffield extras

One of the most terrifying programmes ever shown on British television, Threads is the nuclear apocalypse docudrama that continues to haunt people’s nightmares 40 years on.

www.bbc.co.uk

Another woman who appeared as an extra said that while she was watching the drama she thought “everybody's going to get out of it like all the other films,” but Threads offered no hope.

“I want to die when it hits me because I don't want to live through anything they lived through, not at all - it was horrible,” she added.

 

[8ball]

Head’s up. It’s on telly again tonight. For only the fourth time ever.

Weds 9th Oct 2024 - 10pm.

Cool, bit of jolly viewing for later.

 

[Elpenor]

Hopefully it will be on iplayer for a bit

 

[farmerbarleymow]

So much better than that whack site Musky ballz offers up:



Still yet to watch this, my BH is back tomorrow after taking care of their Mum, it’s time I think.

Have fun getting to sleep tonight...

 

[story]

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Idiocy

 

[sim667]

Just putting it out there, if anyone has a struggle to find it to watch ever I have a digital copy

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Its probably a perfect film to watch on a stormy night in Autumn given the grim subject matter.

I've got it on blu-ray somewhere I think - occasionally watch it if I'm feeling masochistic.

 

[8ball]

8ball’s 3-word review:

Spoiler

A bit gloomy.

 

[Ax^]

hmmm i watched it on the internet archive when the war started in Ukraine

just a bit gloomy

will it be on the iplayer

 

[8ball]

Of course, it’s Sheffield in 1984, so not always clear how much of the situation is related to the nuke.

 

[Numbers]

Never watched it before but am doing so now.

 

[starfish]

Hopefully it will be on iplayer for a bit

Says available for 11 months.

 

[skyscraper101]

I told myself not to watch it, but then I got in and switched it on anyway. Just in time for the nuclear blast. It's just as brilliantly bleak as I remember.

I love how some of the men in the council bunker, and Ruth's father in the basement are still wearing ties a week after the bomb. That's proper commitment.

 

[Ax^]

Never watched it before but am doing so now.

good way to ruin your afternoon

 

[Numbers]

good way to ruin your afternoon

Lasted less than an hour. It’s good but there’s better ways of spending a Thursday afternoon when on a cpl of days off work.

 

[Ax^]

err you watching the right thing as it over an hour long. 1 hour 40 as per iplayer


speaking of which iplayer has it has it available for 11 months in all it bleak gloriousness

 

[Numbers]

I stopped watching it is what I mean. Watched Gangs of London instead.

 

[Ax^]

ah fair enough it a good movie but id not want to watch it on a few days off

 

[StoneRoad]

Threads is not for the faint-hearted.

Didn't bother to watch it this time, as I have seen it several times already.

[Watched the documentary about the 1968 floods down the valley of the River Chew ...]

 

[nogojones]

So much better than that whack site Musky ballz offers up:



Still yet to watch this, my BH is back tomorrow after taking care of their Mum, it’s time I think.

They'll really appreciate coming home to a nice cuddle on the sofa and a good uplifting film. I'd light some candles for ambiance as well

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I've never seen it before so despite the late hour, we consumed it whole.

Goodness me

 

[Epona]

They'll really appreciate coming home to a nice cuddle on the sofa and a good uplifting film. I'd light some candles for ambiance as well

I'd suggest pushing a mattress up against the door of the room for additional immersion...

 

[Fez909]

They'll really appreciate coming home to a nice cuddle on the sofa and a good uplifting film. I'd light some candles for ambiance as well

Some nice novelty ones to lighten the mood

 

[Ax^]

I've never seen it before so despite the late hour, we consumed it whole.

Goodness me

hey could be worse watched it at the start of the ukraine war .. a week or so into it

was a little more scary at the time

but aye bleakest thing i've seen since plague dogs