Threads [NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2&4 Import - Great Britain] [Region 2] | ![Threads [NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2&4 Import - Great Britain] [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5153YD5MRXL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Mick Jackson
Actors: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly, Rita May, Nicholas Lane
Studio: BBC
Category: DVD
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Rating:  26 reviews
Format: Import, PAL
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014138302177
Theatrical Release Date: 1984
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 Brutal and uncompromising. October 28, 2009
The Baron (USA)
This may well be the most compelling of the films made about nuclear war (The Day After, Testament, By Dawn's Early Light, Miracle Mile, etc.). It's certainly the most graphic. Indeed, the film pulls no punches in its depiction of events following an all-out nuclear war that is sparked by a coup in Iran. The focus is on the residents of Sheffield, England as they watch world events quickly spiral out of control. The performances are good across the board, adding credibility to the proceedings. You actually feel for these people and, as such, its all the more difficult to watch them perish (both quickly and slowly). The film is full of unforgettable moments: residents watching as fire trucks leave for safety before the bombing commences, artwork being taken down from a museum wall and carted away, Ruth's journey from her parent's home amid rubble strewn with charred bodies frozen in a rictus of agony, a bloodied mother clutching her dead baby, and many more. Threads is not for the squeamish. It's also a very depressing film. However, a film about the horrors of nuclear war should not be fun. Softening the material would do a disservice to the film's anti-war message. Yes, it's shocking and very, very brutal. But, it has to be. Maybe one day mankind will wake up and realize that the concept of waging and winning a nuclear war is madness of the highest order.
threads July 25, 2009
Jeanine Magana (CALIFORNIA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I first saw this movie when it first came out here in the states. It was so much better than the day after. The real life situations made it so much more believable than other doomsday movies from the 80's. The images will truly stay with you forever.
ANOTHER PLEA FOR REGION 1! June 1, 2009
James A. Van Nus (Hilton Head Island, SC United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It continues to baffle me that this, perhaps the greatest movie of all in the nuclear war and it's aftermath genre, is not available in the U.S.! There are so many mediocre or worse apocalyptic films out there; why not the best? At this time there are more quality British movies available in the U.S. than ever before. Consequently the void here in the states of this classic British offering, which tops even "Testament", or "The Day After", is even more puzzling. Realizing that this comment is far from new or unique, I still offer to the Amazon family of viewers as it reflects the ongoing frustrations of many movie mavens!
Surviving the bomb is the easy part. Threads shows what the survival booklets did not cover. March 13, 2009
Michael J. Covino (Key West, Fl United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Threads depicts the aftermath of a country that has been laid to waste by atomic bombs. This is not meant for entertainment. The stark realities shown in the film are not ones you'll soon forget. It shows that in mere seconds how fast the world can change. You would not even believe that something like this could happen until you recall your grade school lessons of atoms and Eisenstein and what America did to two cities in Japan. It is not the film that is scary, it's the fact that these weapons exist and could very well alter the world as we know it.
In Threads, you needn't wonder what life would be like if somebody decided to blowup your homeland. The movie itself covered every possible horror. Explosions, fallout, radiation is all but a fraction of the day to day trials people endure after the bombs are dropped. Civilization does not just stand back up, brush the dust off and rebuild itself. Hunger eats away at the stomachs of billions of people. With all the farm crops poisoned from the multiple effects of the bombs, what little food that remains people will kill for. The remaining government sits by as this happens, using small rations as reward for able workers, hoping that they will kill themselves off quickly so that there will be less mouths to feed. With no electricity to power even the simplest heath care facility, doctors can do very little to help save lives. The majority of the population dies at such an alarming rate that an attempt to bury them all would be futile and since there is hardly any fuel reserve, burning them would be too costly. So the streets are soon laden with corpses and an outbreak of Cholera and other diseases run rampant, significantly killing the people still alive. When crops finally manage to grow, pesticides are impossible to obtain, compromising the safety of food consumption. Finally, with a huge hole blown up in the atmosphere, everyone under the sun will be exposed to cancerous UV rays. And as if this new world was not bleak enough, we eventually learn that many years down the line, even small, harmless exposures to radiation will cause women to give birth to deformed stillborns. This leaves one to question the survivability of humanity as a whole.
When the credits start to roll you'll be relieved knowing that these bombs mostly stay underground and you'll thank God it was only a movie you just watched. But it is not the kind of horrible movie you can just say, "It was only a movie" since weapons of this magnitude do indeed exist and this could very well be our future if somebody decides to activate them.
Why this DVD has not made it to the United States is beyond me. I guess they figured we already had our version of a nuclear war movie with "The Day After," but I like Threads better since it focused more on the aftermath of a nuclear war rather than a group of characters. You can learn from this film. It is not as story based as "The Day After." It concentrates more on the events that would follow after an atomic bomb has dropped. It does follow the life of one particular character and her offspring, just to show you how far the effects of such a disaster can reach into the future of our childrens' children.
Thankfully the film can be viewed for free on the internet, but I would really love to own the DVD here in the States for quality purposes.
Better than, "The Day After." February 2, 2009
Dirk M. Sampath
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Compared to, "The Day After," "Threads" was by far the superior production, in that it gave a cold, scientific projection of the effects following a nuclear war.
"The Day After" showed only the immediate after-effects (of the dropped nuclear warheads on soceity), but "Threads" showed the decades-after effects on 'soceity' or what remained of it. "The Day After" was a more sanitized version of nuclear war that Hollywood made, and one got the impression that Hollywood did not want to shock their American TVaudience, whearas "Threads" threw the whole devastating reality in your face, a la "if you tink there's anything like 'hope' after a nuclear war and you can 'just' rebuild again, better think again!"
For its educational value, I think that "Threads" is the better Video / DVD for schools to have in their libraries, if schools choose to have one of the two. If they have both, they can show "The Day After" first, followed by "Threads": the 'end' of "The Day After" is the 'beginning' of "Threads," so to speak.
Dirk Sampath.
Dirk Sampath.
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