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*** Even more alarming were later re-showings that did not carry such warnings, especially to viewers who had not previously heard of this movie.
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*** Unless they were in the area affected by the (intentional) power outage.
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*** Unless Especially since it was established that they were live in a Philadelphia suburb, far from the area affected by the (intentional) power outage.
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* NightmareFuel: Even if you knew it was a PhonyNewscast, it ''looked'' very much like a real newscast of the time. Add that it was topical (this was made in the darkness before glasnost) ''and'' had a DownerEnding, and you got chills if you saw it when it first aired. Anticipating this, the network insisted on placing disclaimers after every commercial break and superimposing the word "simulation" over key scenes, in order allay viewers' fears that this was not actually happening. There were still reports of some people panicking, regardless.
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** Even if you knew it was a PhonyNewscast, it''looked'' ''[[RealismInducedHorror looked]]'' [[RealismInducedHorror very much like a real newscast newscast]] of the time. Add that it was topical (this was made in the darkness before glasnost) ''and'' had a DownerEnding, and you got chills if you saw it when it first aired. Anticipating this, the network insisted on placing disclaimers after every commercial break and superimposing the word "simulation" over key scenes, in order allay viewers' fears that this was not actually happening. There were still reports of some people panicking, regardless.
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** [[spoiler:The first live picture from near Charleston after the bomb went off. Everything is on fire, the streets are filled with the dead and the walking wounded. Even in the background, civil defense sirens are still sounding...]]
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** Wife and mother Diane Silverman, whose reason for joining Dr. Lyman's group is never explained beyond being a friend of his, [[spoiler: is the the first of the terrorists to be shot dead, '''on camera''' by the commandos]]. Since we were introduced to her husband and children earlier in the film, there's every possibility they saw her die on live TV.
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** Wife and mother Diane Silverman, whose reason for joining Dr. Lyman's group is never explained beyond being a friend of his, [[spoiler: is the the first of the terrorists to be shot dead, '''on camera''' camera''', by the commandos]]. Since we were introduced to her husband and children earlier in the film, there's every possibility they saw her die on live TV.
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** The scene in which they reestablish a live link to a news crew that was aboard the USS ''Yorktown'' is major league nightmare fuel. [[spoiler:The haunted and terrified female reporter showing a shot of the resulting firestorm, then running tape of the actual explosion is bad enough. The poor woman agonizing over the dead body of her colleague in the murky light, and nervously asking about when the radiation will start hitting them and whether they're all going to die... all of this live on the air... yikes!]]
** [[spoiler:As was the first live picture from near the city after the bomb went off. Everything is on fire, the streets are filled with the dead and the walking wounded while, in the background, civil defense sirens are still sounding...]]
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**[[spoiler:As was the [[spoiler:The first live picture from near the city Charleston after the bomb went off. Everything is on fire, the streets are filled with the dead and the walking wounded while, wounded. Even in the background, civil defense sirens are still sounding...]]
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** Wife and mother Diane, Diane Silverman, whose reason for joining Jim Seaver's Dr. Lyman's group is never explained in full, beyond being a friend of his, [[spoiler: is the only one the first of the terrorists to be graphically shot dead on camera dead, '''on camera''' by the commandos]]. Since we were introduced to her husband and children earlier in the film, there's every likelihood possibility they saw that happen her die on live TV.
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** The WTC Twin Towers are prominently featured in the backdrop of the RBS news studio.
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* TearJerker: Both in-universe and out-universe: [[spoiler:''Everything post explosion''.]]
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** After the terrorists were killed, there is a scene of evacuees rejoicing in an evacuation shelter. One was waving a Confederate flag, which is harsher after the Emmanuel AME shooting.
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*** And before that, the damage and destruction in Charleston after Hurricane Hugo in 1989, just six years after this aired.
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***During this scene, the camera pans from the frantically-waving Confederate flag to the reporter broadcasting from the shelter...who just happens to be African-American.
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** Watch the live footage of the WTC collapse on 9/11. The anchors all start cracking just as depicted here.
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* NightmareFuel: Even if you knew it wasn't real, was a PhonyNewscast, it ''looked'' very much like a real newscast of the time. Add that it was topical (this was made in the darkness before glasnost) ''and'' had a DownerEnding, and you got chills if you saw it when it first aired.
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** After the terrorists were killed, there is a scene of evacuees rejoicing in an evacuation shelter. One was waving a Confederate flag, which is harsher after the Emmanuel AME shooting.
** After the terrorists were killed, there is a scene of evacuees rejoicing in an evacuation shelter. One was waving a Confederate flag, which is harsher after the Emmanuel AME shooting.
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** It's also pretty stomach-churning listening to the voices of the NEST team gradually deteriorate from steely professionalism to abject panic as they vainly attempt to disarm the bomb.
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* NightmareFuel: Even if you knew it wasn't real, it ''looked'' very much like a real newscast of the time. Add that it was topical (this was made in the darkness before glasnost) ''and'' had a DownerEnding, and you got chills if you saw it when it first aired.
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** The scene in which they reestablish a live link to a news crew that was aboard the USS ''Yorktown'' is major league nightmare fuel. [[spoiler:The haunted and terrified female reporter showing a shot of the resulting firestorm, then running tape of the actual explosion is bad enough. The poor woman agonizing over the dead body of her colleague in the murky light, and nervously asking about when the radiation will start hitting them and whether they're all going to die...all of this live on the air...yikes!]]
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** The scene in which they reestablish a live link to a news crew that was aboard the USS ''Yorktown'' is major league nightmare fuel. [[spoiler:The haunted and terrified female reporter showing a shot of the resulting firestorm, then running tape of the actual explosion is bad enough. The poor woman agonizing over the dead body of her colleague in the murky light, and nervously asking about when the radiation will start hitting them and whether they're all going to die... all of this live on the air...air... yikes!]]
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* NightmareFuel - NightmareFuel: Even if you knew it wasn't real, it ''looked'' very like a real newscast of the time. Add that it was topical (this was made in the darkness before glasnost) ''and'' had a DownerEnding, and you got chills if you saw it when it first aired.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel NightmareFuel - Even if you knew it wasn't real, it ''looked'' very like a real newscast of the time. Add that it was topical (this was made in the darkness before glasnost) ''and'' had a DownerEnding, and you got chills if you saw it when it first aired.
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* HarsherInHindsight - Thanks to 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, etc.
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** The scene in which they reestablish a live link to a news crew that was aboard the USS ''Yorktown'' is major league nightmare fuel. [[spoiler:The haunted and terrified female reporter showing a shot of the resulting firestorm, then running tape of the actual explosion is bad enough. The poor woman agonizing over the dead body of her colleague in the murky light, and nervously asking about when the radiation will start hitting them and whether they're all going to die...all of this live on the air...yikes!]]
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** The scene in which they reestablish a live link to a news crew that was aboard the USS ''Yorktown'' is major league nightmare fuel. [[spoiler:The haunted and terrified female reporter showing a shot of the resulting firestorm, then running tape of the actual explosion is bad enough. The poor woman agonizing over the dead body of her colleague in the murky light, and nervously asking about when the radiation will start hitting them and whether they're all going to die...all of this live on the air...yikes!]]
** The scene in which they reestablish a live link to a news crew that was aboard the USS ''Yorktown'' is major league nightmare fuel. [[spoiler:The haunted and terrified female reporter showing a shot of the resulting firestorm, then running tape of the actual explosion is bad enough. The poor woman agonizing over the dead body of her colleague in the murky light, and nervously asking about when the radiation will start hitting them and whether they're all going to die...all of this live on the air...yikes!]]
