I don’t know, what can you say about Threads? I knew its reputation and it lived up to it.

| Sep 18, 2023

The viscerally chilling Threads is the kind of film you only watch once.

| Original Score: 85/100 | Aug 12, 2023

It is not simply a powerful film, but an important one too.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 24, 2020

An over exaggeration in order to compare today to the days of the Cold War? Most certainly. But a sheet of ice on grey pavement would be a fitting metaphor for Threads, a movie that revels in its simplicity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2019

Shocking, harrowing and hard to watch, it nonetheless made an important contribution to an increasingly urgent debate about the world's ever-growing nuclear stockpile.

| Apr 17, 2019

It's the accumulation of horrific detail that appalls and truly scares us - not just the putrefying bodies but the severing of civilization's entire network, modern man trapped in modernity's ashes.

| Apr 17, 2019

Threads is most successful by its merciless refusal of sentimentality - every second is played for realism; this is a documentary of a nightmare, as we are taken, via a young unmarried couple, through a nuclear strike on Sheffield circa 1984, and beyond.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 17, 2019

For all its grim hopelessness, Threads had a subtextual faith that people would understand all this before it was too late.

| Apr 17, 2019

The only film I have been really and truly scared and indeed horrified by - in an intense and sustained way - is Mick Jackson's post-nuclear apocalypse movie Threads.

| Apr 17, 2019

It's perfectly crafted, totally human and so completely harrowing you'll think that you'll probably never want to watch it again.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 15, 2018

Threads first aired on BBC2 on 23 September, 1984, and had much the same - albeit vicarious - impact of instant and lasting trauma on its millions of viewers (6.9 million, to be precise) as a megatonne bomb hitting a major city.

| Apr 9, 2018

[S]eared a black furrow across my soul as a teen that has never healed... it still plagues the dim recesses of my imagination.

| Aug 6, 2005