Threads (DVD)

I remember watching threads for the first time back in school, and finding it both terrifying and fascinating at the same time. I watched it again recently, and the film has certainly lost none of its power to shock. Made back in 1984, Threads is a British made-for-tv film in which Britain is all-but annihilated in a nuclear holocaust. Set in Sheffield, the film starts in a very innocuous fashion, filmed in a low-budget way that brings to mind old ...
...on the surface the remaining threads of authority continue to break down, traffic wardens having been given guns and ordered to shoot on sight when innocent people try to storm the local authority's compound. The horror goes on and on, the whole film presented with documentary-like headings that announce the passage of time from the terrifying hours and later minutes of the nuclear attack to the months and years that drag on afterwards. Britain returns ...

Burning_Darkness 02.10.2009 (06.10.2009) · Read full review
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The long awaited release of this feature on DVD has finally come to pass. There was a great deal of interest in this film that saw the old VHS version selling on certain auction sites for as much as £34 a time. The film is about two families drawn together after their daughter Ruth becomes pregnant by her fiancee. Both families try and come to terms with the fact that their son and daughter are having a baby with neither of them having any money. ...
...start their life together. However, things happening abroad make the nation paranoid about the possibility of a nuclear attack and adverts appear on the television about what to do in the event of an attack. Families go out and buy up food and construct homemade shelters within their houses. Then the unthinkable happens and Britain is struck by a Nuclear attack. The aftermath shows the results of the attack. No power or water with food starting ...

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