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[BouncerTheDog]

I've seen lots of folks mention the impact it has on them growing up. I just found out it's being shown again for it's 40th anniversary next month. Only the 4th time the BBC has ever broadcast it.

I remember it being on and the conversation in the school yard afterwards. Can still remember it vividly to this day. Shocking still.

 

[atypical_boro]

As relevant now as it was then!

 

[Billywoofslovechild]

Yep was a compelling watch and still remember the affect it had on me then.

 

[newusername]

I remember this being handed out by a teacher at school:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1169209973206900737

 

[newusername]

I've seen lots of folks mention the impact it has on them growing up.

I remember it being on and the conversation in the school yard afterwards. Can still remember it vividly to this day. Shocking still.

Radio programme on R4 next Saturday about it and its lasting impact ...

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Reweaving Threads, 40 Years On

Writer Jude Rogers revisits Threads, the Cold War nuclear film that haunted a generation.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

Yes I've told everyone I know to avoid watching television in October to make sure they don't see it. I actually own the dvd. I've never watched it beyond the bomb being dropped as it's just too traumatic an experience to revisit.

 

[TeaCider]

I'd move over to it if it if there were a few more users.

Stuck with s***y Twitter and the bots until then.

 

[ThePrisoner]

I remember this being handed out by a teacher at school:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1169209973206900737

Looking at that map I'll be fine (y)

 

[Littlejimmy]

I watched it again recently and the first half is a bit Rita, Sue and the Bomb Too. Second half from the bombs is still bleak and harrowing.

 

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

The only movie I wish I’d never watched. I think I’ll be giving it a swerve next month.

 

[MoggasDog]

Ohhhhhh. I remember. Ha!

This film frightened the shi.te out of me.
the bomb is scary enough but then its the total and utter breakdown of society.

It was written by the fella that wrote 'Kes', for those might be interested.

 

[TheBoroBuzzard]

I remember this being handed out by a teacher at school:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1169209973206900737

Due to this post the prices of houses in Boosbeck have just doubled !!

 

[Kevo4]

What date is this due to be shown?

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

Adolescence team to remake Threads nuclear attack epic

Sheffield-based Warp Films firm plans to turn the 1984 movie Threads into a TV series, it says.

bbc.in

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

This is really the last thing anyone needs.

 

[Littlefella68]

This is really the last thing anyone needs.

It's being remade

 

[atypical_boro]

It's being remade

Yep. At least when we watch it now with 80s graphics it doesn't feel quite as terrifying as the new version will!

 

[Littlefella68]

Yep. At least when we watch it now with 80s graphics it doesn't feel quite as terrifying as the new version will!

If you like that, try the audio book nuclear war :a scenario by Annie jakobson , which I believe has also been optioned for film

 

[Redwurzel]

People trying to survive after a nuclear bomb hits Sheffield. I saw it when it was first on remember people getting no help, the Army looked after themselves and rich and powerful people and treated others as the enemy. Some of the survivors were glowing and throbbing, no one could keep any food down, then the food ran out. I will stop there.

Barry Hines was the writer I believe, socialist ex teacher from Barnsley.

 

[FishofContemplation]

Yep. At least when we watch it now with 80s graphics it doesn't feel quite as terrifying as the new version will!

An excess of special effects would have ruined its impact. The horror came from the sheer mundanity of the suffering that somehow made it more real. Disaster movie level CGI would have nothing like the same effect.