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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★

  Hoop-Tober, Film 27 of 31:

  I know for a fact that I will never watch this again, as it's probably the single most harrowing film I've ever seen. Beyond Come and See, beyond Salo, beyond Irreversible... more along the lines of how much Zero Day fucked me up because both subject matters are personally relevant; they're events that I fear, that could possibly - but god, I hope not - tie into my own life. Threads might be the first film I've watched that I wish the filmmakers wouldn't have checked their facts and gotten them right. But seeing as it played out in the same vein as Peter Watkin's 1965 masterpiece of a short film, The War Game (which…

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  Review by anneofcleavage ★★★★½ 4

  I was on the fence about nuclear holocaust before, but this film really turned me around!

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  Review by 🎃🔥Mr. Like🔥🎃 ★★★★½ 6

  Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
  Metacritic Metascore: 92
  IMDB: 8.0

  92/100

  Release Date: 23 September 1984
  Distributor: British Broadcasting Corporation
  Budget: $600K
  Worldwide Gross: Strait to TV release
  Total Film Awards: 4

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  Narrator: "In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable."

  SYNOPSIS: The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.

  Very few films have ever shaken me to my core, but this is one of them. It's not only hauntingly realistic, but…

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  Review by Ian West ★★★★½ 2

  What a harrowing decent into a pure nightmare scenario. Bleak is an understatement... this intensly grim bad vibes nose dive into no hopesville goes all the way.

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  Review by laird ★★★★★ 3

  This is the scariest movie.

  A kitchen sink drama plays out while an existence altering event whispers on radio and TV broadcasts in the background. By the time it's foreground, it's too late. The pieces are in place, the board is set, and everyone is thoroughly fucked.

  The tight framing (both literally and narratively) and liberal use of stock footage allows the filmmakers to present the idea of global catastrophe on what was surely a meager budget. Plenty of genre movies have imagined the post-apocalypse, typically set decades later or more and focused on action, heroes and villains. THREADS most powerful sections are depictions of the days just prior to and the decade following nuclear disaster. It's a film about…

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  Review by COBRARocky ★★★★

  Needed something to cheer myself up today.

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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★★ 4

  You cannot win a nuclear war unless you’re a cockroach. They had a blast.

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  Review by cameron fetter ★★★★½ 2

  jesus fucking christ, talk about a day ruiner

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  Review by Justin Decloux ★★★★½ 2

  RIP E.T.

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  Review by Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸 ★★★★ 7

  Just as the brilliance and importance of Threads cannot be denied, neither can its impact and power to shock, sicken, fascinate and depress to this very day. Once seen, it is never ever forgotten and my rewatches are few and far between because of the unrelenting grim power it has.

  It is profoundly horrifying, terrifying television, right up there with Ghost Watch and The Stone Tape; more so than those because this could so very easily have happened to us in the 1980s, at the height of The Cold War.

  It's the kind of film that even now after watching makes you want to ensure your loved ones are close and safe around you.

  The great Charlie Brooker says it…

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★½ 14

  I was more than impressed by this harrowing, fictional account of the build up to and the aftermath of a nuclear attack.

  The strength in Barry Hines' film lies in its script. He structures a story with a few characters of whom we get to see some slice of life moments. In the background, alsmost subversively in the beginning, we get news fragments of a rising international conflict involving Iran and the U.S. (watching this now actually sent a shiver down my spine because of the present day similarities). As we progress in the film it turns into a strange but great drama/documentary hybrid which works really well. Slowly the international conflict evolves and starts to take over the lives…

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  Review by Ethan Colburn ★★★½ 1

  Yeah well nuclear holocaust sucks so let's not do that please.

  I was really amazed what they were able to accomplish given this seemingly limited budget, the scale felt big but intimate. It reminded me at times of Chernobyl in its portrayal of citizens caught up in a larger nuclear conflict.

  I guess by the end things went so off the rails I felt disconnected from the characters and their lives. Definitely an interesting time capsule into cold war paranoia of the 80s.