Threads

Pros: devastating, vivid, intelligent
Cons: takes a while to get going, very gory and intense

"Ninety nine dreams I have had and every one a red balloon. It's all over where I'm standing pretty in this dust that was a city!" 99 Red Balloons- Nena * "Threads" was a one-off BBC feature drama from the pen of Barry ...

Pros: Very graphic and moving. Realistic Gripping
Cons: Acting quality varies. Has dated slightly.

Threads was first seen on British television back in 1984, and it is fair to say it frightened the people of Britain to the point of hysteria. And now, providing you are willing to look past slightly shoddy special effects, and overall cheapness in the...

Pros: Still quite relevant
Cons: Rather specific to the late Cold War

I first saw "Threads" a year or two after it was made. I'm fairly certain that it was not on public television, incredibly enough. I live in Dallas and it was broadcast on channel 33, which at the time was an independent UHF station. My parents had,...

Pros: A look into the possible future if nuclear war broke out
Cons: Horribly depressing and dark

I don't know, Threads might be the most bleak vision of humanity's hatred towards eachother ever put to film. This is not pretty folks, I strongly urge you not to watch it if you get upset easily. Life is precious and fragile, this movie will show you...

Pros: Horrifying
Cons: Horrifying

Screaming children,an episode of Gilligans Island,poisoned toadstool shaped clouds erupting into the sky.The deaths of millions.The nightmare on film.No again not a cold war relic.Remember the atomic ambitions of our friends in China and Korea!Back to our movie.Normal english working class people living normal lives.A situation brews in Iran.But normal working class people just don't think of that."Soviet Union invades Iran NATO issues ultimatum."From that headline things spiral out of control.ICBM's fly like strange death giving birds.So many vaporized.So many survive to experience the true horror.Food riots,rape,murder rampant..the fallout,the dark nuclear winter.Societies attempt to claw its way back is as painful as its death.The first children of the nuclear generation born deformed and retarded at the very least.Illiteracy,pale and shivering figures trying to make a few meager crops grow in the plutonium enriched soil.