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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by monocasa on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @05:50PM (#14102091)
I'd add in 1965's "The War Game" by Peter Watkins. it was commissioned by the BBC as an educational film to prepare the populace for a post nuclear attack world, but was pulled at the last minute as "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting."
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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by arethuza on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @06:20PM (#14102270)
The quote from "The War Game" that I always remember is:

"the sound of the blast from a thermonuclear bomb has been likened to that of an enormous door slamming in the depths of hell."

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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by pmoriarty on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @07:44PM (#14102795)
Also check out Seven Days in May.[1] It's kind of like a serious version of Dr. Strangelove, being more about the events leading up to nuclear war rather than the war itself. Very well done.

[1] - https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Seven-Days-in-May/950294

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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by krylon on Thursday April 13, 2017 @07:49AM (#14105993)
I have managed to watch about half of that program. I can understand why they did not broadcast it.

Really, really good, but more scary than anything I have ever seen in my life. So-called "Horror movies" are fairly tame in comparison.

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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by stuaxo on Thursday April 13, 2017 @08:53PM (#14111956)
OT: Santa Sangre is a Jodorowski film where he tried to make a horrifying as opposed to horror film and IMO succeeded.
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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by jhbadger on Thursday April 13, 2017 @10:05AM (#14106979)
Also Testament (1983), an American movie about a small town far away from major cities to avoid the nuclear war itself, but unlike this typical situation in fiction, they don't live happily after but eventually have to deal with radiation sickness due to fallout and the problem of supplies running out.
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