BBC 4 is showing THREADS on the 9th of October. Maybe we should have a CasualUK watch party for it.
September 26, 2024
BBC 4 is showing THREADS on the 9th of October. Maybe we should have a CasualUK watch party for it.
by StumbleDog
34 comments
No thanks.
I’m out that day. Visiting, er, friends.
Disclaimer: Friends may be imaginary.
No. Just no.
If you’ve never seen it before and you think it can’t be as bleak as everyone says, think again. 2 hours of utter human misery, punctuated by the occasional “oh there might be hope here … nope, they’re dead”
I’ll pass… watched it once before which was enough for a lifetime
Not sure ‘party’ is the right word. I am going to watch it but….
The most effective horror film ever made.
Edit: bemused why this is getting downvoted. I meant it as a compliment to the film. I grew up watching horror films at an age far younger than I should have been. Lapped them up. Never bothered me. In contrast, Threads gave me nightmares for months afterwards. It is literally horrific in a very real sense. Which given the subject matter, is precisely what it should be.
It’s a good movie. Bleak and somber, but worth watching imo.
Nope. I am still haunted by it when I saw it 40 years ago.
I prefer to watch my life alteringly disturbing content by myself to be honest.
The whole evening sounds like a laugh a minute. A nice programme about insects, no doubt because they’ll be the only things that survive us, followed by Inside Porton Down, followed by Inside Sellafield, before the director and the film.
I haven’t seen it, but I have seen the American counterpart, The Day After (though I had to go looking for it as my parents wouldn’t let me watch it at the time).
From what I’ve heard yours is even grimmer, which is exactly what I’d expect from the UK in that time period. I keep telling my husband we should do a double feature. He’s not keen, but I’m actually really curious. It’s not like I’m not pretty familiar with what the aftereffects of a nuke would be, because I was an American teenager in the 80s and we all thought we were doomed. I read everything I could get my hands on.
On the downside, my anxiety is already through the roof lately, so this might not be the right time.
Only if you include sleeping pills and fentanyl thank you.
I wouldn’t mind giving it a watch.
Prepare to be depressed on the 10th October.
Traumatizing film but the bit where the blokes having a dump still gets a laugh out of me “oh bloody HELL”
I couldn’t watch “Words And Pictures” the same way after.
First time I saw it I decided to watch this and When the Wind Blows back to back. Felt terrible all weekend.
Two things scarred me for life, first was watching Eraserhead on telly in 1987 (i was a kid) while my landlord father was pulling pints downstairs leaving me unatended not knowing what the hell I was watching. The other was Threads when I was even younger in the same manner. I became the wierd kid.
such a good film. stopped eating sugar completely after being an addict after watching it. not sure why that happened but oh well.
I watched it a few days ago after reading about it in another thread. I’d just never bothered with it.
I was disappointed. People talk about it like they have some existential crisis whilst watching it. Sure, it’s dark, but to me it’s just a decent, if dated, pre/post apocalypse movie.
I honestly don’t get what all the fuss is about.
Downvote away.
It’ll be like MST3K only not funny
No one watches that and comes out the other side unscathed.
Saw it on the BBC, back in 1984 (I think£ when I was about 11, and then around 2000ish had a DVD copy of it and watched in over and over (kind of had a morbid fascination with it) Lent it to a friend who watched it with his wife, who promptly threw up in their front room when they watched it.
Traumatised springs to mind.
So, I think I’ve seen it enough for at least three lifetimes. I’ll think I’ll pass this time.
There’s nothing bloody casual about _Threads_!
Maybe we can do a Threads, Watership Down and Plague Dogs triple bill?
Wow… what a perfect way to celebrate my 27th birthday!
In all seriousness, I’ve seen the film twice (both times voluntarily, for some reason), which is honestly one time too many because you only need to watch it once. I don’t think I want to watch it for a third time, lol
Sure, it’s the *perfect* movie to watch with friends.
Watched it when it first came out. No need to watch it again now.
Remindme! 13 days
Groundbreaking in its day , never bettered, once seen never forgotten.
How about a triple bill? Threads, The Road, and Look And See.
I still think it’s mental they made us watch this as a kid at school? I can still remember certain parts and it’s been 40 years I think
#BABBY COMIN’!
Really? Oh dear the Samaritans are going to be busy.
If you haven’t seen THREADS, it’s the most terrifying film ever made. They started off with the concept of a soap opera style slice of life about the abject horrors of nuclear war and decided to make it even more bleak by hiring Barry fucking Hines to write it.
It genuinely changed a country’s outlook on nuclear war.
34 comments
No thanks.
I’m out that day. Visiting, er, friends.
Disclaimer: Friends may be imaginary.
No. Just no.
If you’ve never seen it before and you think it can’t be as bleak as everyone says, think again. 2 hours of utter human misery, punctuated by the occasional “oh there might be hope here … nope, they’re dead”
I’ll pass… watched it once before which was enough for a lifetime
Not sure ‘party’ is the right word. I am going to watch it but….
The most effective horror film ever made.
Edit: bemused why this is getting downvoted. I meant it as a compliment to the film. I grew up watching horror films at an age far younger than I should have been. Lapped them up. Never bothered me. In contrast, Threads gave me nightmares for months afterwards. It is literally horrific in a very real sense. Which given the subject matter, is precisely what it should be.
It’s a good movie. Bleak and somber, but worth watching imo.
Nope. I am still haunted by it when I saw it 40 years ago.
I prefer to watch my life alteringly disturbing content by myself to be honest.
The whole evening sounds like a laugh a minute. A nice programme about insects, no doubt because they’ll be the only things that survive us, followed by Inside Porton Down, followed by Inside Sellafield, before the director and the film.
I haven’t seen it, but I have seen the American counterpart, The Day After (though I had to go looking for it as my parents wouldn’t let me watch it at the time).
From what I’ve heard yours is even grimmer, which is exactly what I’d expect from the UK in that time period. I keep telling my husband we should do a double feature. He’s not keen, but I’m actually really curious. It’s not like I’m not pretty familiar with what the aftereffects of a nuke would be, because I was an American teenager in the 80s and we all thought we were doomed. I read everything I could get my hands on.
On the downside, my anxiety is already through the roof lately, so this might not be the right time.
Only if you include sleeping pills and fentanyl thank you.
I wouldn’t mind giving it a watch.
Prepare to be depressed on the 10th October.
Traumatizing film but the bit where the blokes having a dump still gets a laugh out of me “oh bloody HELL”
I couldn’t watch “Words And Pictures” the same way after.
First time I saw it I decided to watch this and When the Wind Blows back to back. Felt terrible all weekend.
Two things scarred me for life, first was watching Eraserhead on telly in 1987 (i was a kid) while my landlord father was pulling pints downstairs leaving me unatended not knowing what the hell I was watching. The other was Threads when I was even younger in the same manner. I became the wierd kid.
such a good film. stopped eating sugar completely after being an addict after watching it. not sure why that happened but oh well.
I watched it a few days ago after reading about it in another thread. I’d just never bothered with it.
I was disappointed. People talk about it like they have some existential crisis whilst watching it. Sure, it’s dark, but to me it’s just a decent, if dated, pre/post apocalypse movie.
I honestly don’t get what all the fuss is about.
Downvote away.
It’ll be like MST3K only not funny
No one watches that and comes out the other side unscathed.
Saw it on the BBC, back in 1984 (I think£ when I was about 11, and then around 2000ish had a DVD copy of it and watched in over and over (kind of had a morbid fascination with it) Lent it to a friend who watched it with his wife, who promptly threw up in their front room when they watched it.
Traumatised springs to mind.
So, I think I’ve seen it enough for at least three lifetimes. I’ll think I’ll pass this time.
There’s nothing bloody casual about _Threads_!
Maybe we can do a Threads, Watership Down and Plague Dogs triple bill?
Wow… what a perfect way to celebrate my 27th birthday!
In all seriousness, I’ve seen the film twice (both times voluntarily, for some reason), which is honestly one time too many because you only need to watch it once. I don’t think I want to watch it for a third time, lol
Sure, it’s the *perfect* movie to watch with friends.
Watched it when it first came out. No need to watch it again now.
Remindme! 13 days
Groundbreaking in its day , never bettered, once seen never forgotten.
How about a triple bill? Threads, The Road, and Look And See.
I still think it’s mental they made us watch this as a kid at school? I can still remember certain parts and it’s been 40 years I think
#BABBY COMIN’!
Really? Oh dear the Samaritans are going to be busy.
If you haven’t seen THREADS, it’s the most terrifying film ever made. They started off with the concept of a soap opera style slice of life about the abject horrors of nuclear war and decided to make it even more bleak by hiring Barry fucking Hines to write it.
It genuinely changed a country’s outlook on nuclear war.