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Many people have addressed there being more than one warhead. This is indeed correct. I was stressing the one warhead that hit Sheffield in particular (the 'whiteout' blast) as that is the main one in the film for inflicting the majority of damage we see for the rest of the film. Some amazing comments from Ghoul Gang members Neil Rusling and Ken Koser down below that clarify the warheads in Threads :) - Connor

One of the things that got me in threads, was how language gradually disappeared.  People stopped talking, and life was so bleak and only ever got worse,  so speech was mostly replaced by grunts.

I've once heard Threads described as "the death of hope".

And damn, it fits.

Literally the scariest part of this is the post nuclear society it’s so disturbing

The creepiest thing in this film (other than that hospital scene) is the fact several characters just vanish and we never see or hear them again. This is scary to me, because I just imagine everyone I know just disappearing and never finding out where they are or what happened to them. That thought scares me more than most horror films.

The shot of the blood running down the steps of the hospital would in any other horror film come off as narmy and tacky, but if anything here it really amplifies how death-ridden the hospital is, this isn't some serial killer going mad and bathing in the blood they've shed, this is the bloodspill of innocent victims as the medical staff within are trying their best and failing to save lives. Hospitals are meant to be safe, clean places where you know you'll be able to be treated and cared for, so when the steps of the hospital you're walking towards have blood literally dripping down them, potentially and unintentionally spilled by the medical staff as they panic to save lives, it's just a nauseating and hopeless feeling it gives you

The fact that real nukes actually cause a lot more damage than depicted in the film is crazy, Nukes have the power to literally VAPORIZE entire people and city blocks

"Threads is just cold war propaganda to install the Red Scare"
My brother in Christ it worked. We start the construction of the new nuclear fallout shelter at 7 AM

I think the best thing about this movie is that it isn’t shot like a traditional movie with long shots/ scripted conversations it cuts in and out of scenes relatively rapidly and almost seems more like a news documentary from an alternative reality

The scene in the hospital where the man was getting his leg amputated without any anesthetics or medication while screaming in pain continues to haunt me

That hospital scene scarred me more than any horror movie has

I've seen "Threads" a few times and I find all the scenes leading up to the bombing scarier than the post-bomb scenes. The news about the escalating conflict along with the "Protect and Survive" PSAs never fail to give me shivers

I think the fact that the daughter refers to her mother by her first name (Ruth) is chilling in itself as well. To me it indicates how distant their connection must have been compared to a normal mother-daughter relationship. Either Ruth simply couldn't bear being too attached to her daughter because of the likelihood of either of them dying at any given time. Or the fact that she lost so much that she simply does not see her child as her child anymore. I think this one detail alone shows how the daughter's dead pan reaction to Ruth dying was purposefully planned, not just incidental.

Overlooked the part where Ruth silently bartered, well, herself, for just a few dead rats.
Lovely film.

Maybe it’s time to re-air this on BBC…
Just a thought.

I remember my mother telling me about when she watched this when it first aired during the Reagan era in school when she was young. It apparently traumatised her so much that she still gets bad dreams about it to this day. Seeing this getting talked about and analysed and I now know why she was so permanently scarred by it...

It was 3 nukes depicted. The nuclear winter is caused by a full scale nuclear world war. Carl Sagan's team concluded that a nuclear winter would be enough to destroy humanity because all plant life would rapidly die. Threads was being optimistic!
Thx for making this. Only saw it once. Seared into me.

Speaking as a relatively un-worldly American, Threads fucking decimated me the first time I watched it. Post-apocalyptic movies WISH they could evoke the kind of sorrow that Threads does.

Threads should be required viewing in every school and university in THE WORLD.

This movie should be viewed in school, so that nobody in their right mind will ever let it get that far.

As was said in the movie: „you cannot win a nuclear war“

Very true.