@YachtPatron4Eldorado I love it when he says you are btter off in your own home hahaha no you will be better off if you actually die.... I remember them adverts when I was a kid, scared the crap outta me...
"And the great death came as a wind of poison unleashed in a flash of light. The water's air and fields will hang with toxic death" I forget what book that's from. Enoch or enki I think. Nuclear weapons prophecied LONG before we ever got our grubby stupid mitts on them . and even the gods didnt wanna use them
@sladerfoster 80 MT's worth of bombs (e.g. 80 1MT warheads) is quite feasible...obviously not a single 80 MT bomb. The biggest ever tested was about 50 MT and massively unwieldly.
"The Day After" did have a much more Hollywood slant.
But "Threads" basically was just your typical UK soap opera; the nuclear war just kind of creeps up on all of their daily lives, until they are left pissing themselves when they see the mushroom cloud outside their town at 45 minutes in, and know it's over.
@raphael44ify It always gets me too. Whenever I hear the music it reminds me of the day in the early 80s when the Protect And Survive leaflet came through the door. My mum snatched it off me before I could read it, and it was hidden away in a cupboard, where I found it 1997.
@jazzx251 The scary Dalek music on those is creepy even now. even spookier, the paper ad reads IRAN CRISIS LATEST at 2.00. What's happening now eh? Oh yes, Woolworth's gets nuked. Kind of prophetic in a way . . .
The "Dalek" music is because of the BBC's Radiophonic Worskshop - a triumph of sound engineering which resulted in all the distinctive sci-fi sounds from Doctor Who, Blakes 7 and - yes - this serious task onwards.
This is the best movie of its kind. Realistic and horrible. I hope it never happens. If it does, please just drop the bomb on too of me and my loved ones. It has been said "The living would envy the dead".
@holmsatlarge It makes the American films, like "By Dawn's Early Light" and the "The Day After" seem feeble in comparison. British film-makers have got a tradition of portraying devestating realism, and they've done it here and in the much earlier "The War Game".
Hy heart was pounding hard throughout the first parts. When I heard the attack warning, I thought I had a heart attack ! Better than ''The Day After'' For sure.
@TimWil I've worked out that the closest this must be is May 1988. I think this was shot February or March 1984. Hey have you seen the original Halloween? The trees are green , not autumnal lol
I think it is absolutely hilarious Daniel Tosh took the most obscure movie ever (to us Americans, even though I've had a copy on VHS since the early 90's) and made it a meme!
One gets the distinct impression that local government would in no way be this organised if this were to happen today. civil defence was disbanded a long time ago, most nuclear bunkers and even the green godess emergency water tenders have all been sold off. I know the threat is seen to have diminshed immeasurably since the '80s but its still food for thought with the middle east still a hotbed of unrest.
@mrspivvy Here in the United States, civil defense is from an era bygone. I can't remember the last time I've seen a public fallout shelter. Sales of private shelters spiked after September 2011 attacks, but most people are unaware that the Russians are still very much an enemy.
The scene where the mother is preparing tea and the little kid is rambling on about whatever. Was that the fat kid who played Bruno in Jim Henson's "The Witches?" If so, that's funny.
@Brunonsense If you like that part you'll like the part later in the basement after the bomb hits. The old woman shits the bed and makes Ruth retch when the blanket's lifted up.
CANT YOU PEOPLE SEE?B IF WE DON'T GET RID OF THE4SE WEAPONS...WE WILL ALL END UP LIKE THAT BLOKE IN THIS MOVIE..turning up 20 years later in coronation street!!! Nobody deserves that!!
You cant ignore or run from what they call love.That is nature whether you accept it or not, war is the same and essential, a necessity for human existance. Try to remove love, hate, anger, mercy or any of these and you arent human at all. War never changes because we never do, because we are humans. I pity who deny the feelings of their nature and keep their minds stuck in one single idea of absolute peace.
Whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war.
@95Dopeman how dumb! war a necessity for human existence? War never changes because we never do ? The global elites and their war mongering might never change because their greed knows no bounds - the rest of us are at their mercy and have been for more than a decade or more. So speak for yourself!
@rosiethebear300 War is in our nature we're just animals on this planet. Apes and ants also have war and its to survive. This is an example. There are two groups of people and one forest that forest will only provide for 1 group only. Now be realistic will the people fight over it or solve their diffrences in 2 seconds like on sesame street? This is another example if there were no wars through out the entire history than this planet would be to overcrowded and the whole planet would starve.
This can be prevented... by sentencing politicians who provoke war to death... whether it a Chinese communist pig in the CCP, warmongering liars like George Bush, or dictators like Ghaddafi or anyone who ups the ante. Make them accountable with their lives. Those who lower the ante - the peacemakers - should be rewarded. Then we will have assurance of peace.
@FlowersInHisHair No war needed. In Dallas, George W Bush (not a dictator, but a known war criminal) is protected by Obama. The end of the chicken's residential street is blockaded to stop someone killing him. What a coward. He can run but one day someone will be waiting for him. The best Bush can do is surrender to The Hague and be put on trial so justice can be done. The best the US population can do is stop protecting a known war criminal.
@creativeengineer ha, don't be too sure about bush not being a dictator, after all, he signed into law H.R. 3162 (aka The Patriot Act) and what is called the Domestic Security Enhancement Act (aka Patriot Act II) of which both violate the very oath and affirmation that he vowed to uphold and defend. Oh, he also has some more friends, follow the money on this one, Arbusto Oil, Harken Energy and someone by the name of James R. Bath and see where the trail leads.
@creativeengineer Why don't you go try and arrest him? or are you too much of a "coward"? Um, I don't know how to tell you this but the Hague is not looking for Bush, waiting to try him. It all exists in your little 'too much dope - give peace a chance fantasy world'. I guess Obama is a coward too because he has secret service men guarding him. Bush has been out of office for 3 years but Bush Derangement Syndrome still lives.
@dancinkindofguy Rules for some and rules for others in this world. The Guantanamo Bay concentration camp where innocent people are tortures is STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS. This facility is a dark cloud of shame hanging over all Americans.
@creativeengineer What evidnece do you have that any 'innocent' people were tortured? If your code word for waterboarding is torture, then only 3 individuals including Khalid Shak Mohammed, planner of 911 had it done to them. Whenever you feel sorry for this cretin, browse over to Daniel Pearl's beheading video and watch KSM in action. Few Americans feel any 'shame' in giving these guys much less that they deserve, most would be glad to be the one to put a bullet in their worthless heads.
@dancinkindofguy Read Guantanamo - My Story by David Hicks. Also books by Moazam Begg and others. There is evidence the Americans tortured many inmates - most who were in fact innocent and none of whom received a fair trial. KSM was a bastard, agreed. But more than 80 percent were innocent. All adults males who entered Gitmo has a stick rammed up their rectum as a welcome gesture by homosexual and mentally sick marines. There was plenty of other tortures - deprivations, spiders, dogs, etc
@creativeengineer You do realize that David Hicks is the Australian who converted to Islam and went to Afghanistan to join Al Queda. He wrote of the glory of jihad and martyrdom. Why in hell would anyone believe anything this scumbag would say? He is lucky someone did not give him a taste of Al Queda medicine and remove his head from his torso. Check out Steven Crowder's video on Guantanomo here on You Tube. It destroys all the myths of guantanomo.
@dancinkindofguy I checked Steven Crowder out...pretty solid. But for the sake of argument even if we did actually torture those animals in the end I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
@damiion666 Exactly! Why anyone gives a crap over the treatment of individuals whose sole purpose for living is to slit our throats is beyond me. Calling them animals is an insult to animals!
@dancinkindofguy And ironically enough, now we're seeing people treat Americans the exact same way over Obama. Two Brits bragged that they would love to put all Americans in a concentration camp in the next part of this video, especially over Obama being elected.
Really, I think they're using whichever president is in power, regardless of who it is or what they've done, as a convenient excuse to "justify" their horrifically hateful attitudes toward entire groups of people.
@HooshIsASoup I don't understand your second sentence about Obama in this video, how can there be a reference to Obama in the movie "Threads" which was made in 1984? Obviously you must be refering to another video, hey it happens.
@dancinkindofguy Nah, what I meant was that it was two Brits *commenting* on another part of Threads uploaded here, not in the film. Sorry for the belated clarification! I didn't check my inbox until just now.
@creativeengineer Very good idea. If they only realize how simple it is. If the idea ever occurred to them it would probably take 10 billion for research and take about 10 years. I.m not sure that Ghaddafi is as horrible as they say - you might want to hear both sides. I heard that most lybians were very happy with him because he provide jobs, free health care and free education even university. He was very national and wouldn't bend to US strong arm him in giving up the countries resources.
The most scary film I ever did see, forget fictional horror movies, this is the ultimate in terror and fear. this is down to mostly because I lived in the UK during this time and it was a very REAL threat that full scale nuclear war could have come at any time. Very scary times...
what amazes me is that both the yanks and brits make a very harsh realistic film about the effects of nuclear war...the aussies???...well there answer to surviving in a post apocaliptic world is to drive around the countryside on motorbikes in full leather clad bondage gear with an ex-brutalised cop in pursuit, oh and not forgetting some fuckwit in a gyro copter!
The Public Service Announcements were to me the scariest part of Threads...very realistic, and not at all science fiction...reminds me of the present hype here in New York regarding the impending hurricane.
@alcockell Holy cr@p.....that;s even scarier! Thanks for the heads up....btw...that last jingle at the end of each announcement to me is even more chilling
These Public Service Announcements are the real thing - back in the 80s, these are exactly what would have been used. I'm British, and lived through this fear as a child - but to realise they even had some cheaply made explanation films of what was happening, sort of makes me feel proud of my country - that they even bothered.
@jazzx251 ff Blows my mind....you're the second person to tell me that! I here you! I think Post imperial UK offers a lot to be proud of...I love it (except the food and the weather)
I wish they made a new movie like this. Dark athmosphere, characters you can relate to. And yes, I do want to see CGI nukes destroying everything in It's way..
@ThomasBellarusa I'm writing a screenplay along those lines haha. Don't wanna reveal too many details because people might steal my ideas, but I do plan on studying film in college.
@ThomasBellarusa Agreed, you can't relate to women running around making cups of Tea. It's entirely sexist and makes the movie more laughable than believable.
@starquant Keep in mind this was made during the 1980s. Also, there is one woman in that group who obviously has some authority. The woman carrying around the tea might have been secretarial/clerical and believe me, that was not unheard-of, and not that long ago, either.
@MrsNorris55 yes I saw the tokenism... it still exists today. So that when women complain about working conditions and pay... people turn around and say " But look, we have ONE of YOUR KIND SEE?".
@TrousersDPM You obviously are not from the UK, yet you make sweeping, matter-of-fact statements like "everything was dull and gritty" in the UK. Why is youtube full of so many people making FLASE statements as if they were fact? — I can assure you that there was/is much of Scotland, Wales and England that does NOT look like bloody Sheffield in the pouring rain!
This movie is still scary as hell during this part. Us Americans never had a realistic portrayal of such events. The day after is tv movie type drama, it really doesn't have the realistic story this one has. I can only imagine what the reaction would be if a movie like this was ever shown on American regular tv.
@ficken3 Yeah, "The Day After" was the feel-good sensation of 1983, wasn't it? I especially liked the bits where the devout Kansas farmers had a prayer vigil and kept all the bombs from falling, and then the part where John Lithgow and his rag-tag band of scientists find a magic potion to cure radiation sickness. What is it about "Threads" that just makes people want to slag off "The Day After?" Strange.
@craigkbryant I have seen both of them when they appeared on TV here in Toronto, Canada. Both of them are very well done. Scary stuff, real life horror movies. I will never forget either of them.
@craigkbryant I have seen both of them when they appeared on TV here in Toronto, Canada. Both of them are very well done. Scary stuff, real life horror movies. I will never forget either of them.
@craigkbryant I have seen both of them when they appeared on TV here in Toronto, Canada. Both of them are very well done. Scary stuff, real life horror movies. I will never forget either of them.
the chances of this happening have risen rather than fallen since the end of the cold war,
apsolutely
and with the christian creationists in america and the muslim lunatics elswhere striving with fanatical religoius delight towards their biggest dream of totally destroying civilisation , even more likely
I was in the USAF Strategic Air Command during the cold war. Our official motto was "Peace is our Profession", unofficially it was "Peace is our Proffession, war is our hobby, total destruction our goal".
I kinda miss the cold war. You knew who the enemy was. Military budgets were big, and you had good job security.
Another in house cold war joke was, Q -"whats the difference between a strategic nuke, and a tactical nuke?" A - "the tactical nuke is the one that blows up in germany".
@dano7411 The world was in a sense simpler back then...I grew up on an Army base in texas, and we knew who the enemy was... these days, who knows ? I used to love that Tom Lehrer song, "We'll All Go Together When We Go"... but 1962 has traumatized my whole life...
Nobody in UK would survive unless they were hiding underground in a bunker. For no structure would remain standing above the ground. 80 megaton is no joke. It is powerful enough to wipe out not only the entire city but the entire country.
This movie is rather misleading. First of all, 80 Megaton nuclear head does not exist in any country (at least officially). The most powerful nuke ever built and detonated was Zhar Bomba in Soveit Union and that was 50 Megaton. Secondly, if a 80 Megaton nuke were to detonate over UK, its destruction would be "total". Everything would burn down and blasted away. Nothing would remain standing, buildings, trees, nothing at all. That was confirmed by the Zhar Bomba experiement.
@UnitedKorean You misunderstood. 80 megatons of nuclear warheads had fallen across the UK at that point. Not one single 80 megaton warhead. In the next chapter it states that a total of 210 megatons falls upon the UK.
@pplpilot no shit sherlock, do you really think they dropped a nuclear bomb on sheffield when making this film!, I think the locals would of had somthing to moan about if they did lol
@bl0xta .... No I didn't "think they dropped a nuclear bomb on Sheffield" hence the reason I say it's fake. Had a sense of humour removed or don't understand irony?
@MartinLuciferKing Your comment (1week ago) is 100% correct despite your vulgar way of putting it. The fact your comment is hidden dew to negative votes is a sad indication of how commonplace are left-wing brain-washed sheep. These white sheep are blindly flocking towards their own genocide in the multicultural abbatoir. Maybe they deserve to be destroyed just for being so stupid... Our race will survive but only in Russia and the old eastern block ironically saved by their communist past.
@MrRik2 On the contrary, you are the one who is in the past. For example, whether you like it or not, the BNP are the fastest growing political party in the UK despite decades of unrelentingly one sided mass-media propaganda our people are at last begining to wake up to the insanity of the government's auto-genocidal policies. But if you want to be a slave to so called "political correctness" then go ahead. I have no intrest in trying to educate those who are too stupid to think for themselves.
@5thcenturyad The BNP are a joke (as people of most political leanings can see), as are the vast majority of the mass media. Just go and crawl back under your rock, you sad little racist, and leave the talking to the grown ups.
@MrRik2 HEHEHEHEHE so they are the same.it's crazy that we have them (NPD = Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands) (the old name was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei = NSDAP) here in germany again.but if a country goes poor.people turn to nazi's or football.and thank you for the answer.
At least we won't have News of the World reporting from the nuclear disaster.
catsilvy 1 hour ago
This is truely a great & terrifying film i have ever seen.One of the most disturbing.
jgtdaw 22 hours ago
Look on the bright side - if this did ever happen, you can just look up and go "Bloody ell" like as if someone took a dump on your shoe!
7:44
miniroll32 1 week ago
07:06
shit! not even my iron is safe!
Samwd1 1 week ago
80 megatons is only 2 missiles now; Minimum to be expected would be 500 megatons and zero chance of survival without a big bunker..
YachtPatron4Eldorado 1 week ago
@YachtPatron4Eldorado I love it when he says you are btter off in your own home hahaha no you will be better off if you actually die.... I remember them adverts when I was a kid, scared the crap outta me...
fenric71 1 week ago
Just think of the displaced dust if you were stupid enough to dig a grave and followed this advise..
YachtPatron4Eldorado 1 week ago
One advantage to ww3. If WE cop it, Piers morgan cops it. the c*nt.
mrspivvy 2 weeks ago
We are all sitting ducks, who would want to plan for survival? survive for what? only to suffer a long death.
magic1969ify 2 weeks ago
"And the great death came as a wind of poison unleashed in a flash of light. The water's air and fields will hang with toxic death" I forget what book that's from. Enoch or enki I think. Nuclear weapons prophecied LONG before we ever got our grubby stupid mitts on them . and even the gods didnt wanna use them
kurlobe 3 weeks ago
80 megaton bomb..? Pure bullshit
sladerfoster 3 weeks ago
@sladerfoster 80 MT's worth of bombs (e.g. 80 1MT warheads) is quite feasible...obviously not a single 80 MT bomb. The biggest ever tested was about 50 MT and massively unwieldly.
LuoNaiFu 3 weeks ago
@sladerfoster 80 Megatons in total... that's across the entire nation in multiple payloads.
rabidsi 2 weeks ago
6:40 No one any longer cares that US "saved" them during WW2.
singularwave 4 weeks ago
This is by far more interesting than "the day after".
das81 1 month ago
@das81 The Day After was Hollywood garbage. This film actually gives you SOME idea of what it really would be like
messybluesboy371 4 weeks ago
@messybluesboy371 The Day After wasn't Hollywood garbage, it was a great film that depicted the social aspects of a nuclear aftermath.
sladerfoster 3 weeks ago
@sladerfoster
"The Day After" did have a much more Hollywood slant.
But "Threads" basically was just your typical UK soap opera; the nuclear war just kind of creeps up on all of their daily lives, until they are left pissing themselves when they see the mushroom cloud outside their town at 45 minutes in, and know it's over.
jazzx251 1 week ago
@messybluesboy371 Nah The Day After just gave a different persepective, Middle America opposed to Urban UK
MercuryRis 3 weeks ago
dorriss where who the fuck melted me shovle .....the man said berry tut bodies ooot side in a trench
killme96 1 month ago
Thumbs up if you saw the flash of lightning at 6:57
CainG88 1 month ago 8
FINALLY
antourte1 1 month ago
Thumbs up if you came here looking for Anne Sellors 7:56
Furball2k 1 month ago
It's that music from "Protect and Survive" which gives me the shivers.
raphael44ify 1 month ago
@raphael44ify It always gets me too. Whenever I hear the music it reminds me of the day in the early 80s when the Protect And Survive leaflet came through the door. My mum snatched it off me before I could read it, and it was hidden away in a cupboard, where I found it 1997.
psychonaut3 1 month ago 2
@psychonaut3 god i bet thats worth money now xD
hacklife91191 1 month ago
@raphael44ify
And it's absolutely genuine.
The "Protect & Survive" moments are ACTUAL BBC archives reserved for an actual nuclear war.
These aren't faked for this drama - they are for real.
It's cute - in a way - the last piece of advice to the end of civilisation.
jazzx251 2 weeks ago
@jazzx251 The scary Dalek music on those is creepy even now. even spookier, the paper ad reads IRAN CRISIS LATEST at 2.00. What's happening now eh? Oh yes, Woolworth's gets nuked. Kind of prophetic in a way . . .
DrMarcusKane 1 week ago
@DrMarcusKane
The "Dalek" music is because of the BBC's Radiophonic Worskshop - a triumph of sound engineering which resulted in all the distinctive sci-fi sounds from Doctor Who, Blakes 7 and - yes - this serious task onwards.
jazzx251 1 week ago
This is the best movie of its kind. Realistic and horrible. I hope it never happens. If it does, please just drop the bomb on too of me and my loved ones. It has been said "The living would envy the dead".
holmsatlarge 1 month ago
friar tuck from Robin Hood (80's series)
diddymuck 1 month ago
Most frightening film about nuclear war ever. Most frightening FILM ever! God, I'm glad the cold war's over.
raphael44ify 1 month ago
@raphael44ify I totally agree!!!
holmsatlarge 1 month ago
@holmsatlarge It makes the American films, like "By Dawn's Early Light" and the "The Day After" seem feeble in comparison. British film-makers have got a tradition of portraying devestating realism, and they've done it here and in the much earlier "The War Game".
raphael44ify 1 month ago
@raphael44ify AGREED!!!!
holmsatlarge 1 month ago
6:41 bowels just fell out...
Naddig74 1 month ago
0:55 fucking shitting myself now...
Naddig74 1 month ago
"extra 6 PSU's" ...P.S.U. must stand for 'Pouring [tea] Service United'. Look at them in that scene, they are ALL drinking tea!!! LOL
trje246 2 months ago
this is the most disturbing film i have ever watched *pops on HMV website and orders*
lofthouse23 2 months ago
Dude the lady at 7:56 wet her diaper!!!!
whittondude 2 months ago
why does the director feel the need to show the lady urinating down her pants and on the street...
golfguy214 2 months ago
@golfguy214
realism - I'm damned sure I'd piss myself if the 4 minute warning went off.
AlchemicalDavid 2 months ago
@golfguy214 Because she's your typical law abiding Mum or Grandmother just out at the shops.
Noodles37UK 2 months ago
@golfguy214
Because that's what genuine fear does to people.
She may have just had 2 cups of coffee while doing her shopping.
Nuclear armageddon appears on the horizon - and those diuretic coffees will end up on the pavement.
It's the reason why condemned prisoners are given a nappy.
jazzx251 1 week ago
Who's the guy with the beard? He looks familiar.
mbabist01 2 months ago
@mbabist01 The overweight guy with the beard, I mean, not the Afro.
mbabist01 2 months ago
@mbabist01 Zak from Emmerdale
mark1806able 2 months ago
Hy heart was pounding hard throughout the first parts. When I heard the attack warning, I thought I had a heart attack ! Better than ''The Day After'' For sure.
SonnytheArcticFox 2 months ago
@SonnytheArcticFox Way, way better!
mbabist01 2 months ago
Man, this still gives me the willies.
hotelmario510 2 months ago
Why was this set in winter? The blast occurs on May 26th in the story but in the wide shots there's no leaves on the trees at all.
TimWil 3 months ago
@TimWil I've worked out that the closest this must be is May 1988. I think this was shot February or March 1984. Hey have you seen the original Halloween? The trees are green , not autumnal lol
Noodles37UK 2 months ago
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I think it is absolutely hilarious Daniel Tosh took the most obscure movie ever (to us Americans, even though I've had a copy on VHS since the early 90's) and made it a meme!
Diskoboy1974 3 months ago
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Diskoboy1974 3 months ago
One gets the distinct impression that local government would in no way be this organised if this were to happen today. civil defence was disbanded a long time ago, most nuclear bunkers and even the green godess emergency water tenders have all been sold off. I know the threat is seen to have diminshed immeasurably since the '80s but its still food for thought with the middle east still a hotbed of unrest.
mrspivvy 3 months ago
@mrspivvy Here in the United States, civil defense is from an era bygone. I can't remember the last time I've seen a public fallout shelter. Sales of private shelters spiked after September 2011 attacks, but most people are unaware that the Russians are still very much an enemy.
rbryant100 3 months ago
@rbryant100 Russians the enemy? do you know any russians?
SuperSimonuk 2 months ago
Only thing is, the initial attack sequence doesnt have the effect the one from The Day After did.
Jakezing 3 months ago
8:29 Well said, mate.
Also, I love the little touch of humour with the bloke on the loo. XD
MadameApathy 3 months ago
"Over my dead body." LOL, talk about foreshadowing.
rbryant100 3 months ago 3
@rbryant100 Yeah. Probably not the best line to use when war is pending, LOL.
MrsNorris55 3 months ago
I wonder how those guys in the underground shelters knew the yeild of the nukes at 9:22
SpermCannon 3 months ago
ZOMG its ANNE SELLORS (Woman who pisses herself) !!!!!!!
bradley583 3 months ago
When the ATTACK WARNING RED sounded... jesus.
Right underneath it and pissed out of my mind, like he said.
Havockeer 3 months ago 2
The scene where the mother is preparing tea and the little kid is rambling on about whatever. Was that the fat kid who played Bruno in Jim Henson's "The Witches?" If so, that's funny.
jacob7207 3 months ago
Go to 7:55 for Anne Sellors aka woman who wets herself
calmur23 3 months ago
Redeploying the fire engines??????, it just shows how much the government would try to resist the effects of nuclear war
MRWALKER500000 4 months ago
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12striketeam 4 months ago
"Attack warning for BLOODY REAL!" Chills.
Mind1973 4 months ago
Scarier than The Day After.
Mind1973 4 months ago
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Just came here for the infamous "Woman who urinates herself" LOL 7:55
Brunonsense 4 months ago 23
@Brunonsense If you like that part you'll like the part later in the basement after the bomb hits. The old woman shits the bed and makes Ruth retch when the blanket's lifted up.
5thcenturyad 4 months ago
Jesus Christ! They've done it!
quentinnor 4 months ago
Hate people who puke in the sink.... sooner or later the filter gets blocked with carrots and tomatoe skins and begins to stink...lol.
flipinwotsit 4 months ago
Attack Warning Red! It's for bloody real!
rbryant100 4 months ago
The most disturbing thing about this great drama is that the government instructions are for real!
These are the actual recordings we would have been given if there was a genuine nuclear war! They were taken from the BBC archive.
It's fucking chilling.
jazzx251 4 months ago
ha ha ha zack dingle managing phones
rsturbo240bhp 4 months ago
that was a low-yield tactical, not one from an ICBM, a MIRV warhead would have incinerated that whole town. Especially if it was airburst over it.
sr71ablackbird 4 months ago
CANT YOU PEOPLE SEE?B IF WE DON'T GET RID OF THE4SE WEAPONS...WE WILL ALL END UP LIKE THAT BLOKE IN THIS MOVIE..turning up 20 years later in coronation street!!! Nobody deserves that!!
musicalglenn69 4 months ago 3
The fools, who wants to live through that. prepare for death and preper well
burnticeblues 4 months ago
Why is it that whenever the streets are deserted, there's always that one dog barking in the distance?
MacJaxonManOfAction 4 months ago 7
@2112murphy There's no such thing as inter species animal conflict you silly cunt. I bet you vote conservative.
LordRassy 5 months ago
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TheWheels777 5 months ago
You cant ignore or run from what they call love.That is nature whether you accept it or not, war is the same and essential, a necessity for human existance. Try to remove love, hate, anger, mercy or any of these and you arent human at all. War never changes because we never do, because we are humans. I pity who deny the feelings of their nature and keep their minds stuck in one single idea of absolute peace.
Whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war.
Vegetius
95Dopeman 5 months ago
@95Dopeman how dumb! war a necessity for human existence? War never changes because we never do ? The global elites and their war mongering might never change because their greed knows no bounds - the rest of us are at their mercy and have been for more than a decade or more. So speak for yourself!
rosiethebear300 5 months ago
@rosiethebear300 War is in our nature we're just animals on this planet. Apes and ants also have war and its to survive. This is an example. There are two groups of people and one forest that forest will only provide for 1 group only. Now be realistic will the people fight over it or solve their diffrences in 2 seconds like on sesame street? This is another example if there were no wars through out the entire history than this planet would be to overcrowded and the whole planet would starve.
95Dopeman 5 months ago
@95Dopeman
You dickhead - we have a substitute for war, which we call sport.
It stops us fighting with each other and allows us to whip your arse at football, loser.
jazzx251 4 months ago
@jazzx251 War is essential for human survival it may sound retarted but its true.
95Dopeman 4 months ago
@95Dopeman Not a nuclear war. Radiation will destroy the ability to reproduce.
Standuble 3 months ago
@Standuble Conventional war is in a way for human survival but nuclear war well....... yeah we're pretty much fucked there.
95Dopeman 3 months ago
This, and The Day After, beat the hell out of any "slasher flick" for a good scare.
DannyB587 5 months ago 3
@DannyB587 I totally agree! It is scary because it could happen!!! These movies are REAL horror movies!!
holmsatlarge 1 month ago
This can be prevented... by sentencing politicians who provoke war to death... whether it a Chinese communist pig in the CCP, warmongering liars like George Bush, or dictators like Ghaddafi or anyone who ups the ante. Make them accountable with their lives. Those who lower the ante - the peacemakers - should be rewarded. Then we will have assurance of peace.
creativeengineer 5 months ago 2
@creativeengineer Trouble is, that the capture of such dictators requires war...
FlowersInHisHair 5 months ago
@FlowersInHisHair No war needed. In Dallas, George W Bush (not a dictator, but a known war criminal) is protected by Obama. The end of the chicken's residential street is blockaded to stop someone killing him. What a coward. He can run but one day someone will be waiting for him. The best Bush can do is surrender to The Hague and be put on trial so justice can be done. The best the US population can do is stop protecting a known war criminal.
creativeengineer 5 months ago
@creativeengineer I agree totally! Lol didn't know about chickens street blockade! lol
rosiethebear300 5 months ago
@creativeengineer ha, don't be too sure about bush not being a dictator, after all, he signed into law H.R. 3162 (aka The Patriot Act) and what is called the Domestic Security Enhancement Act (aka Patriot Act II) of which both violate the very oath and affirmation that he vowed to uphold and defend. Oh, he also has some more friends, follow the money on this one, Arbusto Oil, Harken Energy and someone by the name of James R. Bath and see where the trail leads.
sr71ablackbird 4 months ago
@creativeengineer Why don't you go try and arrest him? or are you too much of a "coward"? Um, I don't know how to tell you this but the Hague is not looking for Bush, waiting to try him. It all exists in your little 'too much dope - give peace a chance fantasy world'. I guess Obama is a coward too because he has secret service men guarding him. Bush has been out of office for 3 years but Bush Derangement Syndrome still lives.
dancinkindofguy 4 months ago 2
@dancinkindofguy Rules for some and rules for others in this world. The Guantanamo Bay concentration camp where innocent people are tortures is STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS. This facility is a dark cloud of shame hanging over all Americans.
creativeengineer 4 months ago
@creativeengineer What evidnece do you have that any 'innocent' people were tortured? If your code word for waterboarding is torture, then only 3 individuals including Khalid Shak Mohammed, planner of 911 had it done to them. Whenever you feel sorry for this cretin, browse over to Daniel Pearl's beheading video and watch KSM in action. Few Americans feel any 'shame' in giving these guys much less that they deserve, most would be glad to be the one to put a bullet in their worthless heads.
dancinkindofguy 4 months ago 2
@dancinkindofguy Very well said. They wouldn't understand unless they had a 9/11 of their own. We find justice for our people the way we see fit.
damiion666 4 months ago
@dancinkindofguy Read Guantanamo - My Story by David Hicks. Also books by Moazam Begg and others. There is evidence the Americans tortured many inmates - most who were in fact innocent and none of whom received a fair trial. KSM was a bastard, agreed. But more than 80 percent were innocent. All adults males who entered Gitmo has a stick rammed up their rectum as a welcome gesture by homosexual and mentally sick marines. There was plenty of other tortures - deprivations, spiders, dogs, etc
creativeengineer 4 months ago
@creativeengineer You do realize that David Hicks is the Australian who converted to Islam and went to Afghanistan to join Al Queda. He wrote of the glory of jihad and martyrdom. Why in hell would anyone believe anything this scumbag would say? He is lucky someone did not give him a taste of Al Queda medicine and remove his head from his torso. Check out Steven Crowder's video on Guantanomo here on You Tube. It destroys all the myths of guantanomo.
dancinkindofguy 4 months ago 2
@dancinkindofguy I checked Steven Crowder out...pretty solid. But for the sake of argument even if we did actually torture those animals in the end I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
damiion666 4 months ago
@damiion666 Exactly! Why anyone gives a crap over the treatment of individuals whose sole purpose for living is to slit our throats is beyond me. Calling them animals is an insult to animals!
dancinkindofguy 4 months ago
@dancinkindofguy And ironically enough, now we're seeing people treat Americans the exact same way over Obama. Two Brits bragged that they would love to put all Americans in a concentration camp in the next part of this video, especially over Obama being elected.
Really, I think they're using whichever president is in power, regardless of who it is or what they've done, as a convenient excuse to "justify" their horrifically hateful attitudes toward entire groups of people.
HooshIsASoup 4 months ago
@HooshIsASoup I don't understand your second sentence about Obama in this video, how can there be a reference to Obama in the movie "Threads" which was made in 1984? Obviously you must be refering to another video, hey it happens.
dancinkindofguy 4 months ago
@dancinkindofguy Nah, what I meant was that it was two Brits *commenting* on another part of Threads uploaded here, not in the film. Sorry for the belated clarification! I didn't check my inbox until just now.
HooshIsASoup 3 months ago
@creativeengineer Trouble is, that the capture of such dictators requires war...
FlowersInHisHair 5 months ago
@FlowersInHisHair Nope just a good sharp shooter!
rosiethebear300 5 months ago
@creativeengineer Very good idea. If they only realize how simple it is. If the idea ever occurred to them it would probably take 10 billion for research and take about 10 years. I.m not sure that Ghaddafi is as horrible as they say - you might want to hear both sides. I heard that most lybians were very happy with him because he provide jobs, free health care and free education even university. He was very national and wouldn't bend to US strong arm him in giving up the countries resources.
rosiethebear300 5 months ago
"You are better off in your own home. Stay there." Sound advice. You're going to die anyway. Why even attempt to leave?
brethynda123 5 months ago
Shit just got real!
SloreTactician 5 months ago
The most scary film I ever did see, forget fictional horror movies, this is the ultimate in terror and fear. this is down to mostly because I lived in the UK during this time and it was a very REAL threat that full scale nuclear war could have come at any time. Very scary times...
MrUAV100 6 months ago
@TrousersDPM Yes everything WAS dull and gritty in the UK throughout the 80s!
RedJoe10 6 months ago
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what amazes me is that both the yanks and brits make a very harsh realistic film about the effects of nuclear war...the aussies???...well there answer to surviving in a post apocaliptic world is to drive around the countryside on motorbikes in full leather clad bondage gear with an ex-brutalised cop in pursuit, oh and not forgetting some fuckwit in a gyro copter!
bl0xta 6 months ago
The Public Service Announcements were to me the scariest part of Threads...very realistic, and not at all science fiction...reminds me of the present hype here in New York regarding the impending hurricane.
ih8tbush 6 months ago
@ih8tbush The PSAs were REAL. Actually, if yoiu search for "Protect and Survive", the whole set are up on 'Tube.
alcockell 6 months ago
@alcockell Holy cr@p.....that;s even scarier! Thanks for the heads up....btw...that last jingle at the end of each announcement to me is even more chilling
ih8tbush 6 months ago
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These Public Service Announcements are the real thing - back in the 80s, these are exactly what would have been used. I'm British, and lived through this fear as a child - but to realise they even had some cheaply made explanation films of what was happening, sort of makes me feel proud of my country - that they even bothered.
jazzx251 4 months ago
@jazzx251 ff Blows my mind....you're the second person to tell me that! I here you! I think Post imperial UK offers a lot to be proud of...I love it (except the food and the weather)
ih8tbush 4 months ago
I wish they made a new movie like this. Dark athmosphere, characters you can relate to. And yes, I do want to see CGI nukes destroying everything in It's way..
ThomasBellarusa 6 months ago 18
@ThomasBellarusa I'm writing a screenplay along those lines haha. Don't wanna reveal too many details because people might steal my ideas, but I do plan on studying film in college.
UninsaneRocker 4 months ago
@ThomasBellarusa But i hope without USA/ Hollywood because they make shit.
honkdalonk 4 months ago
@ThomasBellarusa correction, "everything in their way."
jacob7207 3 months ago
@ThomasBellarusa Agreed, you can't relate to women running around making cups of Tea. It's entirely sexist and makes the movie more laughable than believable.
starquant 3 months ago
@starquant Keep in mind this was made during the 1980s. Also, there is one woman in that group who obviously has some authority. The woman carrying around the tea might have been secretarial/clerical and believe me, that was not unheard-of, and not that long ago, either.
MrsNorris55 3 months ago
@MrsNorris55 yes I saw the tokenism... it still exists today. So that when women complain about working conditions and pay... people turn around and say " But look, we have ONE of YOUR KIND SEE?".
starquant 3 months ago
6:50 good old Rover SD1 police car to save the day!
TopGearrules 6 months ago
@TrousersDPM You obviously are not from the UK, yet you make sweeping, matter-of-fact statements like "everything was dull and gritty" in the UK. Why is youtube full of so many people making FLASE statements as if they were fact? — I can assure you that there was/is much of Scotland, Wales and England that does NOT look like bloody Sheffield in the pouring rain!
felipescotland77 6 months ago
This movie is still scary as hell during this part. Us Americans never had a realistic portrayal of such events. The day after is tv movie type drama, it really doesn't have the realistic story this one has. I can only imagine what the reaction would be if a movie like this was ever shown on American regular tv.
ficken3 6 months ago
@ficken3 Yeah, "The Day After" was the feel-good sensation of 1983, wasn't it? I especially liked the bits where the devout Kansas farmers had a prayer vigil and kept all the bombs from falling, and then the part where John Lithgow and his rag-tag band of scientists find a magic potion to cure radiation sickness. What is it about "Threads" that just makes people want to slag off "The Day After?" Strange.
craigkbryant 6 months ago 2
@craigkbryant I have seen both of them when they appeared on TV here in Toronto, Canada. Both of them are very well done. Scary stuff, real life horror movies. I will never forget either of them.
holmsatlarge 5 months ago
@craigkbryant I have seen both of them when they appeared on TV here in Toronto, Canada. Both of them are very well done. Scary stuff, real life horror movies. I will never forget either of them.
holmsatlarge 5 months ago
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@craigkbryant I have seen both of them when they appeared on TV here in Toronto, Canada. Both of them are very well done. Scary stuff, real life horror movies. I will never forget either of them.
holmsatlarge 5 months ago
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the chances of this happening have risen rather than fallen since the end of the cold war,
apsolutely
and with the christian creationists in america and the muslim lunatics elswhere striving with fanatical religoius delight towards their biggest dream of totally destroying civilisation , even more likely
whitesquirrel7 7 months ago
oen thing im curious about
the film shows military jets taking off after the EMP
is this fantasy or would military aircraft be protected from EMP in some way
whitesquirrel7 7 months ago
I was in the USAF Strategic Air Command during the cold war. Our official motto was "Peace is our Profession", unofficially it was "Peace is our Proffession, war is our hobby, total destruction our goal".
I kinda miss the cold war. You knew who the enemy was. Military budgets were big, and you had good job security.
Another in house cold war joke was, Q -"whats the difference between a strategic nuke, and a tactical nuke?" A - "the tactical nuke is the one that blows up in germany".
dano7411 7 months ago
@dano7411 The world was in a sense simpler back then...I grew up on an Army base in texas, and we knew who the enemy was... these days, who knows ? I used to love that Tom Lehrer song, "We'll All Go Together When We Go"... but 1962 has traumatized my whole life...
anisete46 6 months ago
Nobody in UK would survive unless they were hiding underground in a bunker. For no structure would remain standing above the ground. 80 megaton is no joke. It is powerful enough to wipe out not only the entire city but the entire country.
UnitedKorean 7 months ago
This movie is rather misleading. First of all, 80 Megaton nuclear head does not exist in any country (at least officially). The most powerful nuke ever built and detonated was Zhar Bomba in Soveit Union and that was 50 Megaton. Secondly, if a 80 Megaton nuke were to detonate over UK, its destruction would be "total". Everything would burn down and blasted away. Nothing would remain standing, buildings, trees, nothing at all. That was confirmed by the Zhar Bomba experiement.
UnitedKorean 7 months ago
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the film did not say it was a single 80mt warhead but that [a total of] 80 mt fell on uk
whitesquirrel7 7 months ago 2
@UnitedKorean You misunderstood. 80 megatons of nuclear warheads had fallen across the UK at that point. Not one single 80 megaton warhead. In the next chapter it states that a total of 210 megatons falls upon the UK.
stevehern99 6 months ago
The men did duck and cover the women carried on shopping this is very realistic and I'm not joking.
NielsShoe 7 months ago
@NielsShoe Thats typical, they will literally shop till they drop lol
bl0xta 7 months ago
if this ever happens, the nexxt war will be fought with slings an arrows
BenoitBenn 7 months ago
The buildup to the actual attack is still creepy.
jolpenrose 7 months ago 4
yup id also be pissing and shitting myself if i was there lookin at the mushroom cloud
alexander5860 7 months ago
Youtube- a place where people try to educate others with the wrong opinion in global politics.
BassDudeBear 7 months ago 3
5thcenturyretard-cunt!!!
vwkafernutjob 7 months ago
...I love that sound... after the announcer says the words "LIe Down" or "Stay there"
"BWOOOOOO" :-) hahaa!!
GAWD this film TRAUMATIZED me as a kid.... It's STILL very heavy to see now, as an old man!!!... :-P
itsstillfriday 8 months ago
The War Game is an excellent documentary too..and When The Wind Blows is very moving in its way
ITILII 8 months ago
Absolutely horrific. This movie, despite its age, scares the crap out of me.
MasterJediDude 8 months ago
I could have sworn I heard an air raid siren in Manchester a few days ago.
qwertasdcfghjklmo24z 8 months ago
@qwertasdcfghjklmo24z That wasn't an air raid siren, that was Rooney's new alarm clock!
bl0xta 8 months ago
fake.
pplpilot 8 months ago
@pplpilot Good call, genius,
omcorc 8 months ago
@pplpilot no shit sherlock, do you really think they dropped a nuclear bomb on sheffield when making this film!, I think the locals would of had somthing to moan about if they did lol
bl0xta 8 months ago
@bl0xta .... No I didn't "think they dropped a nuclear bomb on Sheffield" hence the reason I say it's fake. Had a sense of humour removed or don't understand irony?
pplpilot 8 months ago
@MartinLuciferKing Your comment (1week ago) is 100% correct despite your vulgar way of putting it. The fact your comment is hidden dew to negative votes is a sad indication of how commonplace are left-wing brain-washed sheep. These white sheep are blindly flocking towards their own genocide in the multicultural abbatoir. Maybe they deserve to be destroyed just for being so stupid... Our race will survive but only in Russia and the old eastern block ironically saved by their communist past.
5thcenturyad 8 months ago
@5thcenturyad You're a museum piece.
MrRik2 8 months ago
@MrRik2 On the contrary, you are the one who is in the past. For example, whether you like it or not, the BNP are the fastest growing political party in the UK despite decades of unrelentingly one sided mass-media propaganda our people are at last begining to wake up to the insanity of the government's auto-genocidal policies. But if you want to be a slave to so called "political correctness" then go ahead. I have no intrest in trying to educate those who are too stupid to think for themselves.
5thcenturyad 7 months ago
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MrRik2 7 months ago
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@5thcenturyad The BNP are a joke (as people of most political leanings can see), as are the vast majority of the mass media. Just go and crawl back under your rock, you sad little racist, and leave the talking to the grown ups.
MrRik2 7 months ago
@5thcenturyad what is BNP??? is it like here in germany NPD???
yakulanicksan 7 months ago
@yakulanicksan British National Party. Very far right wing dickheads with tiny penises and very little concept of history or how the world works.
MrRik2 7 months ago
@MrRik2 HEHEHEHEHE so they are the same.it's crazy that we have them (NPD = Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands) (the old name was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei = NSDAP) here in germany again.but if a country goes poor.people turn to nazi's or football.and thank you for the answer.
yakulanicksan 7 months ago
@yakulanicksan "nazi's or football". Absolutely! Well said :)
MrRik2 7 months ago