10 Apocalypse Horrors That Broke All The Rules
2. Threads
Threads has been spoken about before on WhatCulture Horror, being dubbed ‘the best post-apocalyptic horror movie you’ve never seen’, and so it has more than earned its place on this list.
Released in 1984, this film depicts the struggles of regular people trying to survive in post-apocalyptic Sheffield. After nuclear attacks leave half of the UK population immediately dead, and millions more suffering with fatal radiation poisoning, the world as our characters know it is completely destroyed.
Forced to live in squalor and in fear of fellow survivors and the military, our characters truly have no way of anticipating what horrors await them. It’s a truly bleak, hopeless look at the dissolution of humanity and it diverges from so many other horrors by virtue of its presentation.
It is not full of action and explosion, there’s no hero to fix things and no hope for humanity in a saviour with the solutions in hand. Instead it is gritty and horrifying and unrelenting, forcing us to confront the very worst outcomes that we are often spared by Hollywood.