'Threads' is a grim 1984 BBC drama telling the story of a nuclear strike on Britain through the eyes of two families
' Threads ' is a grim 1984 BBC drama telling the story of a nuclear strike on Britain through the eyes of two familiesA film which depicts a nuclear strike on Britain and shows the horrifying aftermath is 'more terrifying' 40 years on, a columnist has said.
"For anybody who hasn't seen it I do recommend hunt it down online or rent it - it is the most horrifying film I have ever seen," he said."A middle-class girl gets pregnant with a working-class boy, they have to meet and then the world ends.""There's scary parallels with today - there's problems in the Middle East, Iran is the centre of certain issues," he said.
"Where it all goes extremely scary is there's a bunch of people in Sheffield on the high street and they look up and they just see the mushroom cloud - and that's it."Threads is a hugely important film and given the way everything is going at the moment it just seems to have a really weird relevance or resonance," he said.Mr O'Doherty said the bleak film is very much based on science."Mick Jackson the director and he's actually a scientist.
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