Coming Soon
THREADS
1984
Director
Mick Jackson
Starring
Paul Vaughan
Karen Meagher
Reece Dinsdale
David Brierley
Runtime
112 minutes
Select Showtime to Purchase Tickets
Select Showtimes
The year is 1984, and anxieties surrounding nuclear annihilation, sparked by the ongoing Cold War, are at an all-time high. On the 23rd of September, a Sunday evening that would later be branded ‘The Night When Nobody Slept’, families across Britain would be glued to their televisions in horror. They were watching THREADS; a straight-to-television film depicting the nightmarish consequences of nuclear war in England, premiering for the first time on BBC Two. Combining a faux documentary style with methods typical of the British kitchen sink drama, THREADS plunged viewers into a relentlessly bleak vision of a post-apocalyptic world.
An attempt to ‘visualize the unthinkable’ THREADS is the love child of phenomenal English writer Barry Hines and renowned director Mick Jackson. Barry Hines, known for his exploration of the socio-economic struggles of northern working class England, lent to the film’s script a disturbing realism that would quite literally traumatize a generation. It’s been 40 years since the film was originally broadcast and it has lost none of its power to shock.
An attempt to ‘visualize the unthinkable’ THREADS is the love child of phenomenal English writer Barry Hines and renowned director Mick Jackson. Barry Hines, known for his exploration of the socio-economic struggles of northern working class England, lent to the film’s script a disturbing realism that would quite literally traumatize a generation. It’s been 40 years since the film was originally broadcast and it has lost none of its power to shock.