History NightmareFuel / Threads

* When Ruth walks around in the rubble after the explosion. The only sound is coming from the wind, and she sees burnt corpses, a lost child looking for his mother, and a delusional woman who is holding her clearly burnt-to-death baby. The image on the main page, of that delusional woman, may perhaps be one of the most haunting still images ever shot of a rehearsed pose.

* The biggest piece of NightmareFuel about this film: ''it would really happen in the event of a nuclear war.'' This movie is almost non-fiction with how heavily it [[ShownTheirWork shows its work.]] If nukes drop, there won't be any ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' or ''Franchise/MadMax'' style adventures; we'll all just ''die''.

* The biggest piece of NightmareFuel about this film: ''it would really happen in the event of a nuclear war.'' This movie is almost nonfiction with how heavily it [[ShownTheirWork shows its work.]] If nukes drop, there won't be any ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' or ''Franchise/MadMax'' style adventures; we'll just all die.

[[caption-width-right:340: A woman, who has just survived a nuclear bomb, holding her child, [[HarmfulToChildren who hasn't.]]]]

** There was a woman that was so scared that she [[BringMyBrownPants wet herself]].

[[caption-width-right:340: A woman, who has just survived a nuclear bomb, holding her child, [[InfantImmortality who]] [[SubvertedTrope hasn't.]]]]

** The camera doesn't hold on most things in the hospital for too long, but for a British TV movie released in 1984 - the same year the Video Recordings Act that banned VideoNasties was passed - we see some [[MeatgrinderSurgery absolutely horrendous things]], including [[NauseaFuel pus-soaked bandages from survivors with infected wounds]], people having water salted with SAXA table salt [[WorstAid applied to wounds in lieu of antibiotics]], people having [[{{Squick}} shards of glass removed from their flesh with tweezers]] in close-up, and perhaps worst of all, a man screaming ''very believably'' as one of his limbs is hacked off. '''[[SkipTheAnaesthetic Without any anaesthetic]]'''. The way the scene is edited in such a disorienting way leaves you wondering what the hell else is happening in that room. NothingIsScarier indeed.

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[[caption-width-right:340: A woman, who has just survived a nuclear bomb, holding her child, [[InfantImmortality who]] [[SubvertedTrope hasn't.]]]]

* The biggest piece of NightmareFuel about this film: ''it would really happen in the event of a nuclear war.'' This movie is almost nonfiction with how heavily it [[ShownTheirWork shows its work.]] If nukes drop, there won't be any {{Fallout}} or MadMax style adventures; we'll just all die.

* When Jane gives birth to a stillborn, deformed baby and screams in terror as a result. The movie ends there and sets the overall tone that humanity is finished as the fallout from the initial attacks all those years ago have done their damage.

* When Jane gives birth to a stillborn, deformed baby and screams in terror as a result.

* The deathly silence, when the flash of heat is sweeping through the city and we see everything melting and Mr Kemp desperately trying to put out his burning wife. Then the blast hits and everything is destroyed.

** Apparently the artificial method they used to recreate the mushroom cloud lead to actual genuine panic on the streets. Could've been a highly disturbing bit of EnforcedMethodActing had they been rolling the film.

** RAF Finningley isn't really "nearby" - it's more than 30 miles away.

** There was a woman that was so scared that she [[GetMyBrownPants wet herself]].

* The British Government's actual ''Protect and Survive'' public information films that the film were used, as what the film presents is pretty much what we were expected to do if the five-minute warning went off. Two of the short films are available [[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1964to1979/filmpage_warnings.htm here]] and [[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1964to1979/filmpage_casualties.htm here]]; excerpts include [[spoiler:"''If anyone dies while you are kept in your fallout room, move the body to another room in the house ... If you have had a body in the house for more than five days, and if it is safe to go outside, then you should bury the body for the time being in a trench, or cover it with earth, and mark the spot of the burial''"]]. Terrifying in their own right, even more so if you consider the circumstances in which the government would have assented to broadcast these.

* When Ruth has to [[spoiler:give birth to her daughter, Jane, and cut the umbilical cord with her teeth.]]

* There is a certain element of this... ''[[SarcasmMode delightful]]'' piece of television which has been overlooked in its nightmare-enabling capabilities, and unjustly so, because neglecting to mention just how absolutely terrifying it is would be very remiss of this wiki: '''[[spoiler:[[PunctuatedForEmphasis ABSOLUTELY. EVERYTHING. THAT. HAPPENS. IN. THE. WHOLE. FILM.]]]]'''. It traumatises people who first saw it to this very day, and considering it was first broadcast in 1984 and was then not broadcast again until 2003, that speaks volumes.
* For many Britons (especially those who live in/near Sheffield), this film hit close to home and it hit '''hard'''. Those OopNorth are so used to seeing [[BigApplesauce New York]]/LA/[[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Tokyo]]/[[BritainIsOnlyLondon London]] blown up it doesn't affect them, but when it's a city in Yorkshire ...
* It was the British Government's ''Protect and Survive'' public information films that the film used - not parodied, as what the film presents is pretty much what we were expected to do if the five-minute warning went off. Two of the short films are available [[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1964to1979/filmpage_warnings.htm here]] and [[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1964to1979/filmpage_casualties.htm here]]; excerpts include [[spoiler:"''If anyone dies while you are kept in your fallout room, move the body to another room in the house ... If you have had a body in the house for more than five days, and if it is safe to go outside, then you should bury the body for the time being in a trench, or cover it with earth, and mark the spot of the burial''"]]. Terrifying in their own right, even more so if you consider the circumstances in which the government would have assented to broadcast these.
* When Sheffield is hit we see humans on fire- and a cat's face horrifically distorted.

** There was a woman that was so scared that she ''wet herself''.
** Apparently the artifical method they used to recreate the mushroom cloud lead to actual genuine panic on the streets. Could've been a highly disturbing bit of EnforcedMethodActing had they been rolling the film...
* When Ruth walks around in the rubble after the explosion. The only sound is coming from the wind, and she sees burnt corpses, a lost child looking for his mother, and a delusional woman who is holding her clearly burnt baby.
** The image on the main page, of that delusional woman, may perhaps be one of the most haunting still images ever shot of a rehearsed pose.
* When Ruth goes to a makeshift hospital. It is extremely unhygenic, and the people there have devastating injuries. Since there is no anesthesia, the people who are operated on are screaming in pain.

* [[spoiler:When you realize that all the education that the next generation is getting comes from an old learning video. The literacy rate will become extremely low, if not flat out nonexistant.]]
* [[spoiler:When Ruth dies. By her reaction, it seems that Jane either doesn't know that her mother is dead or understands that she is of no use to her anymore, and leaves her body after jiggling it a few times. The scary part comes when you realize that Jane has nobody to take care of her anymore. Also doubles as a TearJerker.]]
* [[spoiler:When Jane gives birth to a stillborn, deformed baby.]]

* There is a certain element of this... ''[[SarcasmMode delightful]]'' piece of television which has been overlooked in its nightmare-enabling capabilities, and unjustly so, because neglecting to mention just how absolutely terrifying it is would be very remiss of this wiki: '''[[spoiler:[[ThisIsSparta ABSOLUTELY. EVERYTHING. THAT. HAPPENS. IN. THE. WHOLE. FILM.]]]]'''. It traumatises people who first saw it to this very day, and considering it was first broadcast in 1984 and was then not broadcast again until 2003, that speaks volumes.
* For many Britons (especially those who live in/hear Sheffield), this film hit close to home and it hit '''hard'''. Those OopNorth are so used to seeing [[BigApplesauce New York]]/LA/[[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Tokyo]]/[[BritainIsOnlyLondon London]] blown up it doesn't affect them, but when it's a city in Yorkshire ...

* When Sheffield is hit we see humans on fire- and a cat's face horrifically distorted

** Apparantly the artifical method they used to recreate the mushroom cloud lead to actual genuine panic on the streets. Could've been a highly disturbing bit of EnforcedMethodActing had they been rolling the film...

* There is a certain element of this... ''[[SarcasmMode delightful]]'' piece of television which has been overlooked in its nightmare-enabling capabilities, and unjustly so, because neglecting to mention just how absolutely terrifying it is would be very remiss of this wiki: '''[[spoiler:[[ThisIsSparta ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN THE WHOLE]] [[ThisIsSparta FILM]]]]'''. It traumatises people who first saw it to this very day, and considering it was first broadcast in 1984 and was then not broadcast again until 2003, that speaks volumes.

When you watch a movie that realistically depicts the decay of humanity after a nuclear attack, there's no doubt that there will be some nightmares. This is basically ''HighOctaneNightmareFuel : The Movie''...

* I do believe there is a certain element of this... ''[[SarcasmMode delightful]]'' piece of television which has been overlooked in its nightmare-enabling capabilities, and unjustly so, because neglecting to mention just how absolutely terrifying it is would be very remiss of this wiki: '''[[spoiler:[[ThisIsSparta ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN THE WHOLE]] [[ThisIsSparta FILM]]]]'''. It traumatises people who first saw it to this very day, and considering it was first broadcast in 1984 and was then not broadcast again until 2003, that speaks volumes.