Threads

2 Entertain | Release Date: September 23, 1984

7.9	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 17 Ratings

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djniceyApr 28, 2020

I'd say its one of the most powerful and gripping films of all time. Its filmed documentary style and not given a hollywood war-time story or larger than life characters. I think its the down-to-earth story and low budget 'fly on the wall'I'd say its one of the most powerful and gripping films of all time. Its filmed documentary style and not given a hollywood war-time story or larger than life characters. I think its the down-to-earth story and low budget 'fly on the wall' style filming about how life would change that brings the horror home. Its not a horror film in the modern sense but it is very moving.

This film will stay with you for years after watching.… Expand

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JLuis_001Jul 14, 2018

This is the kind of film that hype around it increases its quality for many people when in fact they're not so good and if there is something that should be stressed about Threads is that it's not a great film.
Beyond its harrowing portraitThis is the kind of film that hype around it increases its quality for many people when in fact they're not so good and if there is something that should be stressed about Threads is that it's not a great film.
Beyond its harrowing portrait on the consequences of a nuclear war and nuclear fallout the film offers very little of anything that could be called narrative. Evidently its documentary style is largely to blame for that because the film only passes from one point to another without anything sustaining it more than the consequences of the nuclear attack, there's really nothing more, the ending is the best proof because the horror stop out of the blue but it could easily go on and on.

The film itself after the attack is horrible, despairing, bitter, painful and not only because the images are graphic but because they represent a very possible reality. Here you cannot finish the film and then turn on the lights knowing the disaster or the killer are just fiction.

Nuclear war has always been a terrible possibility for humanity since those weapons were conceived, today it would probably be worse and in spite of everything, the teaching of the horrors that could be unchained never seem to be enough, because as we saw recently, it was downplayed to see who had the biggest button.… Expand

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HellHoleHorrorMar 9, 2022

Powerful, moving and tragic. This is very difficult to watch. There is this sense of doom as world events clash. This film not only shows the human cost of catastrophic nuclear attacks but also touches on rebuilding afterwards. This goes intoPowerful, moving and tragic. This is very difficult to watch. There is this sense of doom as world events clash. This film not only shows the human cost of catastrophic nuclear attacks but also touches on rebuilding afterwards. This goes into far more detail than any similar film. There is a greater fear coming about from this kind of film than any conventional horror film. It didn't make you jump but it made you sit up and take notice. This is a very effective chiller. Probably the scariest of its type that I have seen. I didn't get how the title fitted in until the end. The factual commentary is important although still slightly annoying. I didn't sleep very well after viewing.… Expand

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