For those looking to get over the mid-week hump day, your TV viewing for tonight is sorted.
That is, if during the mid-week hump day your plans are to watch ‘one of the most depressing and scary films ever made’ in a rare TV appearance.
If that sounds like a bit of you, the BBC has sorted out your mid-week evening.
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While that may not sound like the easiest viewing when we’re all crawling to the end of the week, the reviews alone will convince you to give it a go.
In addition to a perfect 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has an impressive score of 8.0 on IMDb.
Directed by Mick Jackson, the film is a post-apocalyptic horror, the sort of movie that doesn’t get under your skin through fantastical gore, but through genuine spine-tingling thoughts of the worst that could happen to the world.
Check out the trailer here and see what you think:
The film in question is called Threads, and in its fourth-ever TV appearance it is sure to get a massive reaction.
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A BBC Film Critic, Mark Searby, said: “I can't get over the fact that THREADS, one of the most depressing and scary films ever made, is getting a rare (very rare) showing on BBC Four tonight.”
Another posted the listing saying it was ‘The most horrifying movie ever filmed.’
On the anniversary of the film last month, one fan posted on Twitter to say: “On this day, 38 years ago, BBC2 transmitted Threads.
“One of the single greatest British dramas ever made (and still the most terrifying thing I've ever seen), by all accounts it changed Ronald Reagan's viewpoint on nuclear war.”
They then posted the following disclaimer, showing how cautiously BBC introduced it to viewers:
The film focuses on two young lovers who are separated after nuclear war breaks out between the Soviet Union and United States.
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This leads a NATO base near Sheffield to be nuked, with the pair having to survive in a post-apocalyptic UK.
Empire’s five-star review by Sam Toy read: “Threads is most successful by its merciless refusal of sentimentality - every second is played for realism; this is a documentary of a nightmare, as we are taken, via a young unmarried couple, through a nuclear strike on Sheffield circa 1984, and beyond.”
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called it his most frightening film, saying: “The only film I have been really and truly scared and indeed horrified by - in an intense and sustained way - is Mick Jackson's post-nuclear apocalypse movie Threads”.
Meanwhile, Rotten Tomatoes verified critic Farah Cheded said: “The viscerally chilling Threads is the kind of film you only watch once.”
Threads will air tonight on BBC4 at 10.15pm.
Topics: BBC, Film, Horror, TV, TV and Film
Michael Slavin