Is this the scariest film ever made?🎬 #cinema #filmmaking #horror #threads #horrormovie

[misspiggy]

"You cannot win a nuclear war". Probably the best line from the film. The infomercials in the film about how to prepare were creepy...i still can hear them in my head.

[ozonius_]

Remove the nuclear war, sheffield is pretty horrifying at times

[abigailmaley]

Threads was terrifying. I watched it in the 1980s and I was wrecked for a while. Some people mention nuclear war like it has no long-term ramifications/consequences. They're dangerous idiots, especially if they're in politics.

[Jess-py]

We had to watch this in Government class in middle school (I'm gen x, it was the 80's..) I remember we had to get written permission from a parent. I literally felt intensely nauseous and had probably my first panic attack (without even knowing what that was..) It gave me a whole new genre of nightmare for months, which would show up again randomly in later years. I think I've been afraid low key in an impossible to conquer meta way ever since. It changed something in my mind, or maybe broke something innocent.

[alexispaterson]

Even the mention of the film still sends a shiver through me 40yrs after watching Threads.

[schectermeister]

Theres definitely a big distinction between jump scary and disturbing scary.... Especially when the story features events that can and/or have actually happened.

[rugbynimbus]

The last scenes, with the children staring blankly at the terrible playback of a video-taped TV show (learning about "A is for apple" when they've never seen an apple) while radiated-stillborns are dumped into buckets was pretty bleak.

[mattgilbert]

I saw it on tv in 1984.

I was 11 or 12. Didn't sleep properly for months afterwards. Started sleepwalking into my parents bedroom, in the nightmare i was walking through the house and the street and everyone was just.. gone. The world was empty.
My parents told me i was talking in my sleep saying "everyone's gone" or words to that effect. I remember the dreams and the feeling. That film was truly effective.

[PeripheralVvV]

It hit me pretty hard when the kids were looking at the animal skeleton video after never having seen an animal like that, when the adults that are in the room can remember them clearly and probably miss their pets.

I also felt bad for the little cat that was rolling around in the smoke. Though I found out after that the film crew had actually gotten the cat high on catnip to get it to roll around lol so that scene isn’t as hard to watch now

[ko-danfleetcommander]

Peter Watkins did it 20 years earlier with "The War Game", which is arguably scarier because although it is fiction, and less than an hour long, it was good enough to win the Oscar for best documentary feature. Oh, and the BBC commissioned it, and then banned if from TV for decades.

[GrimmmReaperz]

Unbelievable film. I’m from Sheffield and was at school when this came out. It’s so grim, somber, bleak and without any hope. It’s a film that stays with you because it’s real…

[dulldyl]

Insane that went you asked the question I immediately thought of Threads, it's scary as hell.

[TheBonyLevi]

I remember this film. Especially when the young girl had to bite through her own umbilical cord. She raised the baby alone for about 13 years a day when her daughter tried to wake her up for work one day, the mother was dead. The daughter took her warm socks and went to work. I only ever saw this film once, on television when it aired but it still haunts me.

[tomasjoconnel]

I remember this way back in the day. It was frightening in that, once everything fell apart, you were on your own. Most people like to know that everything is in its place, they are safe and secure, and all is right with their world. Once that is taken away, it is replaced with fear and terror. The real horror is not what you see, but what you imagine. All the best films press the buttons on your imagination and what scares you-and this film definitely did.

[subsanity]

This film was shown in the UK on TV, here in the USA a similar film called The Day After was shown. It is about a nuclear strike in America with and ending that depicts a chance of hope. Threads is definitely one that will leave you contemplating the aftermath of Nuclear War and some of the things that take place will mess with you long after seeing it. The hospital scenes directly after the detonation, the martial law and relocation of the population, the feral children speaking their own language… that was suggesting the breakdown of civilization after a decade or two.

[MrSpooner]

Agreed. I watched Threads a long time ago; i found it to be far more depressing and horrifying than The Day After but was still a fantastic film. I loved how it didnt try to give any happy ending or anything like that because there would be none after an event like that.

[red_catharsis]

So crazy when you asked about the scariest film I’ve ever seen and then talk about nuclear war.
My first thought was “When the Wind Blows” which is an old British cartoon about nuclear war breaking out and how an elderly couple who trust their government implicitly are affected by the fallout. What made it truly scary to me was the use of real life nuclear warhead event guide-books in the film. It's just terrifying how ill informed they were and watching that movie (also a book) changed me and when i think of it today i still get chills.

[sjones]

They showed us Threads in English class when I was 14 years old. A truly harrowing film that absolutely traumatised me. My teacher followed this up with a book called 'Brother in the Land', about a kid surviving a nuclear war just to depress us some more.

[mylittleviking]

Threads was shown at my school when I was 13. I’m sure some of you remember the excitement of seeing the TV and VCR unit on wheels being wheeled into the classroom, fully knowing that you’d be watching TV instead of regular school work. Oh what little I knew… at the end of the class after we had all watched Threads we slowly left the classroom with pale faces and eyes like saucers! I remember that a couple of girls were in tears after that school showing. Threads had been on TV the evening before and a teacher had recorded it and brought it to school the next day to show the class so they were ‘informed’. We were all pretty well informed anyway in the height of the Cold War being taught the ‘4 minute warning’ every week.

[xItzVihaanx]

Imo opinion the scariest part of the movie isn't the way the war affected the people but the thought that people actually went through this. Just the thought of it creates a chain of questions. The more you think the more the abyss grows its like as more of your questions get answered the more the abyss grows and you see no end.