Because You Were Too Happy Today
June 18th, 2009 | researchmaterial
Because you were obviously far too happy today, those cheerful scamps at ComingAnarchy have brought you a collection of films about nuclear armageddon. It includes THREADS, which utterly fried my brain in 1984 and helped make me the pure source of joy you know today.
Threads… shared the shit out of me when I saw it as a 15 year old back in 1984 (we were shown it at school as part of Humanites IIRC… quite what the teacher was thinking I’ve no idea, but about a quarter of the class had to leave the room to be sick and the rest of us were just scarred for life)
I recently discovered that Threads was available on DVD, so re-watched it 30 years on and it still has the same effect.
Forget any horror movie, Threads is the scariest, most disturbing movie I think I’ll ever see.
Arse! I’d managed to forget that threads existed. I saw it in school too, although it was probably 90 or 91 by the time they showed it us. Scary scary fucked up head messer.