Why is THREADS Still Upsetting Today?

Don’t turn down HIS street!

We could go through all of the geo-political reasons why THREADS is still bothering audiences today but let’s put all of that aside for a moment and talk about the film as a whole.

THREADS is a 1984 British TV movie that was the first to depict the true consequences to a nuclear war, when 210 megatons fall upon the United Kingdom. The film focuses on the northern England town of Sheffield and the…