1. Nuclear War - Threads
There was a time when the threat of nuclear war was a case of when and not if. Its certainly debatable whether this uplifting little mantra still holds true today. Be it a religion-inspired nuclear terror, a d*ck-waving superpower stand-off or simply a befuddled old general accidentally tripping over his own feet and landing arse first on a big red button that says, Press Here For World War Three, the choices for nuclear catastrophe remain limitless. It also remains a disturbingly haunting end of days setting; the dropping of the warheads, the blast wave, all the death then the subsequent nuclear winter. Its probably not a bedtime story youd want to whisper your kids to sleep with at night. This is never more apparent than in disquieting atomic fear flick, Threads. Set at the height of the Cold War in the mid-1980s, the film is a visceral and frightening depiction of nuclear war and the accompanying consequences on any unfortunate folk who survive the initial blast. The film is so authentically brutal that you end up hoping for another few hundred warheads to drop directly onto the survivors heads in order to put them out of their misery. Thats right: the imagery here is so stark and uncompromising that you yearn for more nuclear chaos to alleviate the horror. And isnt that the apocalypse for you?