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Threads Review (Severin Films Blu-ray)". Cultsploitation. 15 February 2018. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020 . Retrieved 26 February 2018. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs last year, Brooker cited the film as a formative moment of his early adolescence. “I remember watching Threads and not being able to process what it meant; not understanding how society kept going,” he said. “I assumed it [nuclear war] was going to happen.” Sheffield film 'Threads' ". sheffieldforum.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 March 2018 . Retrieved 4 March 2018.

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Clark, Kenneth R. (11 January 1985). " 'Threads': Nightmare After the Holocaust". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015 . Retrieved 14 October 2013.

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Toy, Sam (1 January 2000). "Threads". Empire. Archived from the original on 10 April 2019 . Retrieved 28 April 2019. When I found out my local video store had a copy of this film, I rushed to get it, as I was impatient to see this movie I have heard so much about. The impatience to see the movie was rewarded by nothing more than a really bad aftertaste of radioactive fallout. Maltin, Leonard (2006). Leonard Maltin's 2007 Movie Guide. USA: Signet. pp. 1348. ISBN 0-451-21916-3. The BBC’s hard-hitting and unflinching nuclear fallout drama Threads was recently remastered and re-released on DVD. It has now been made available as a two-disc Blu-ray feature for the first time.

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a b Binnion, Paul (May 2003). "Threads" (PDF). Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies. University of Nottingham. ISSN 1465-9166. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 February 2016 . Retrieved 4 February 2016. Threads remastered DVD review: this is the way the world ends". SciFiNow. 11 May 2018. Archived from the original on 19 February 2019 . Retrieved 18 February 2019. With Jane now an orphan, she struggles to survive in an uncertain landscape of ruined cities and harsh living. Forced into stealing food with similarly displaced youngsters, one particular food theft has tragic consequences as one of the young men is shot dead whilst the other rapes Jane in a desolate barn as they fight over food. It's made all the more disturbing by the fractured, damaged dialect which has arisen as language falls by the wayside in a broken society. WTBS introduction Threads 1985". YouTube. Archived from the original on 26 April 2017 . Retrieved 24 September 2016.Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called it a "masterpiece", writing: "It wasn't until I saw Threads that I found that something on screen could make me break out in a cold, shivering sweat and keep me in that condition for 20 minutes, followed by weeks of depression and anxiety". [34] Sam Toy of Empire gave the film a perfect score, writing that "this British work of (technically) science fiction teaches an unforgettable lesson in true horror" and went on to praise its ability "to create an almost impossible illusion on clearly paltry funds". [35] Jonathan Hatfull of SciFiNow gave a perfect score to the remastered DVD of the film. "No one ever forgets the experience of watching Threads. [...It] is arguably the most devastating piece of television ever produced. It's perfectly crafted, totally human and so completely harrowing you'll think that you'll probably never want to watch it again." He praised the pacing and Hines' "impeccable" screenplay and described its portrayal of the "immediate effects" of the bombing as "jaw-dropping [...] watching the survivors in the days and weeks to come is heart-breaking". [36] Both Little White Lies and The A.V. Club have emphasized the film's contemporary relevance, especially in light of political events such as Brexit. [37] [38] According to the former, the film paints a "nightmarish picture of a Britain woefully unprepared for what is coming, and reduced, when it does come, to isolation, collapse and medieval regression, with a failed health service, very little food being harvested, mass homelessness, and the pound and the penny losing all value". [37] Awards and nominations [ edit ]

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Dirty, cold, homeless and hungry, Ruth finds herself on the moors where a dead sheep is the only available source of sustenance. Despite appearing to offer some brief salvation and the chance to satisfy her aching stomach, Ruth knows, deep down, that the sheep has died from radiation poisoning and munching down on it is only going to cause her severe health problems in the future. Such is her predicament, though, there's no point planning for an uncertain future and she has to force down the raw, contaminated meat. I was pregnant with my second child at the time and Threads shook me to the core,” says Perrine. “I was literally nauseated by the final scene of the film.” This is a world in which the living envy the dead. In which hospitals, divested of the means to exercise proper care, carry out amputations on patients without anaesthetic. In which Ruth – having given birth to a daughter – is forced to trade her body for rats as a form of sustenance. Where children of the survivors of the apocalypse roam the land, mute due to there being no education system of which to speak. Galgana, Michele "Izzy" (29 January 2018). "Blu-ray Review: THREADS Still Destroys". ScreenAnarchy. Archived from the original on 4 March 2018 . Retrieved 4 March 2018. Threads was a 1984 BBC2 drama/documentary which tried to predict what would happen to Britain if nuclear war broke out and follows the path taken by Ruth Kemp and her family. It's a show which is regularly feted as one of the most bleak, disturbing and realistic pieces of drama to ever air not just on British TV, but in the history of the entire planet's televisual output. And, no matter how many times I watch it, the unflinching honesty of Threads leaves me feeling incredibly disconsolate, but completely engrossed.a b "Nuclear fallout in Sheffield". BBC South Yorkshire. 22 April 2005. Archived from the original on 21 October 2011 . Retrieved 5 January 2014.

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There's no happy ending to Threads and it ends on a particularly bleak note with Jane going through a traumatic labour. Sadly, due to the fact that she herself was born into an era of intense radiation poisoning, Jane's baby is born stillborn. The final shot is a freeze frame of Jane screaming as she's handed her lifeless, silent baby and sums up the true horror of the nuclear aftermath. a b "Discover the post-apocalyptic nightmare of this landmark social drama". Archived from the original on 21 October 2020 . Retrieved 13 May 2020. Bradshaw, Peter (20 October 2014). "Threads: the film that frightened me most". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019 . Retrieved 28 April 2019. And it's this sharp, sudden detachment from reality which makes watching Threads such a numbing experience. Again and again, Ruth, the innocent citizen that represents us all, is bludgeoned by the harsh realities around her. Every inch of Threads is infected with a crushing sense of helplessness and it's this that upsets the most. However, much as Ruth continues to stagger onwards, you can't help but keep watching. To say it blunts your soul would be an understatement; I genuinely think that Threads rewires something deep inside of you to cope. O'Connor, John J. (12 January 1985). "TV: Years After Nuclear Holocaust". The New York Times. p.42 . Retrieved 11 October 2023.As tensions escalated between the US and the USSR, so speculation fomented that nuclear war was not so much a far-off nightmare, as an imminent possibility. Historians now compare those days of 1983 to the Cuban Missile Crisis two decades earlier as one of the most perilous episodes of the Cold War. Agreed. My partner and I are both in our 50s. I watched as a kid the first time round, she had never seen it. Bartlett, Andrew (2004). "Nuclear Warfare in the Movies". Anthropoetics. UCLA. 10 (1). ISSN 1083-7264. Archived from the original on 28 June 2016 . Retrieved 5 January 2014. Mangan, Michael, ed. (1990). Threads and Other Sheffield Plays. Critical Stages. Vol.3. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. p.234. ISBN 978-1-850-75140-3. ISSN 0953-0533.