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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 6

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

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  Review by Justin Decloux ★★★★½ 15

  RIP E.T.

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  Review by laird ★★★★★ 4

  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 cameron fetter ★★★★½ 3

  jesus fucking christ, talk about a day ruiner

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  Review by Séamus Malekafzali ★★★★★ 4

  One of the sole true anti-war films, where the aesthetics of conflict are stripped so bare of anything that could remotely be considered thrilling or exciting in favor of pure, raw brutality and unending suffering that will continue long after the camera stops focusing on the characters. Structurally perfect or near-perfect in its editing, performances, sound design, world-building, you name it. The most sophisticated depiction of misery you could ask for.

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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 Liam Navey ★★★★★

  Drop the nuke right on my fuckin head I do not want to live through this

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  Review by 🎃🔥Mr. Like🔥🎃 ★★★★★ 7

  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 Josh Lewis ★★★★ 8

  You know, I always thought that nuclear war might be pretty cool but after watching this I'm starting to reconsider this position...

  You go into a movie with the kind of reputation this one has ready for the misery and anguish but I was still somehow pretty surprised at how sudden this makes its transition from BBC-produced, kitchen-sink domestic drama TV movie (one you could picture them hiring Ken Loach to do) to straight-up disgusting apocalyptic horror movie about the minute procedural detail of being in the vicinity of a nuclear bomb, including graphic levels of detail and texture you can practically smell. Deploying gruesome docudrama recreations, archival footage, still photos and bluntly-stated facts/statistics on not just the immediate aftermath…

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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★★ 4

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