Threads (UK)
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The closest you`ll ever want to come to nuclear war
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 112 mins
Retail Price: £15.99
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Content Type: TV Series
Synopsis:
`THREADS` - a shockingly realistic account of global nuclear war and its horrific aftermath. It`s a normal Thursday in Sheffield when East and West stumble into war and Britain is devastated by 200 megatons of nuclear explosives...
This chilling film tells the story of a nuclear strike on Britain. Through the eyes of two families we witness the immediate after effects of the attack - the shock, grief, radiation sickness, hypothermia and starvation. In the months that follow, hideous injuries remain untreated, looters are shot on sight, food supplies run out and many die in the intense cold of the nuclear winter.
Thirteen years on reveals a depopulated Britain living below subsistence level - a devastated economy where money has no value, crops fail through lack of pesticides, no fuel and machinery, and a brutalised post war generation grows up stunted mentally, physically and emotionally.
The fragile fibres that hold society together - the threads - have been completely destroyed and there is no outside aid.
The end of the world as we know it...
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Directed By:
Mick Jackson
Written By:
Barry Hines
Starring:
Nicholas Lane
Rita May
David Brierly
Reece Dinsdale
Karen Meagher
Your Opinions and Comments
This is a grim film, showing the breakdown in society... i love the anarchy of the Romero `Zombie` films, everyone want to be a survivor, and think they can take on the world in a post apocolyptic armageddon scenario, but a nuclear holocaust as shown in this shows, `nobody is a winner`.
Even the legendary Ray Mears wouldnt have an answer to surviving in this environment...
is it the lucky ones who survive... i am not so sure?
For me i think i would adopt the air cabin crew crash advise `stick your head between your legs, and kiss your ar$e goodbye!`... and hope your close enough that its quick!
If this special edition is as good as the copy i have it will be excellent