10 Harrowing Movies You Can’t Watch Twice
8. Threads
Threads is a film you'll never want to see more than once because it will remind you of the horrors of Thatcher-era Britain... but after the nukes drop, it gets so much worse.
We can only pray Mick Jackson's BBC docudrama is as close to witnessing the effects of nuclear war as we'll ever get. The films follows a working class family whose life is blown apart in an atomic firestorm and their struggle to survive in the irradiated ruins of Sheffield, something none of them do a good job of.
Threads hits viewers with one harrowing scene after another. One minute somebody is withering away from radiation sickness, the next the local police are using lethal force to deal with looters as society as we know it begins to unravel.
The whole thing feels terrifyingly close to home thanks to the documentary-style aesthetic Jackson opted for. It's almost like watching newsreel footage of an event that's actually happened, and given the way the global political climate is right now, Threads is more relevant than it's been for decades.