The wrong television film with a perfect Rotten tomatoes

According to Rotten tomatoes, there are only nine perfect horror films, two perfect science fiction films and two perfect war films. However, the BBC TV film “Threads” from 1984 does not fit properly in a category and, as such, is a real unique unity as a film with a perfect 100% score.

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“Threads” is a drama of Barry Hines, the author of “A Kestrel for a Knave”, which he adapted for Ken Loachs film “Kes” from 1969. It shows a massive nuclear attack on the United Kingdom of the Soviet Union and was described as one of the most troubling films that have ever been made. When it made his debut in the United Kingdom on September 23, 1984, it made an immediate task, whereby the transfer date among the broadcasters and in the media was known as “Night in which the country did not sleep”.

Directed by Mick Jackson, who headed Hollywood blockbuster such as “The Bodyguard”, the dark realistic “threads” was produced with a budget of £ 400,000 (or $ 533,080). In view of the realistic and comprehensive manner, as they represent the following Thealuclear attack and the following nuclear winter. In the years since its original transmission, “threads” has not appeared much again, only broadcast a few times and received several DVD publications under the radar. But it has also become a kind of cult classic, mainly for how entire generations drawn with its lively and relentless representation of the horrors of the nuclear fallout. As such, it is a bit strange to see that a 100% score is awarded to a film that, according to all actors, reliably uses the audience to terror.

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As a drama, the more terrorist than most horror films, the television film as a typical British drama of the wash basin begins after the life of the everyday inhabitants of the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire. We meet Ruth Beckett by Karen Meagher and Jimmy Kemp from Reece Dinsdale, a young couple who is suddenly faced with an unplanned pregnancy. We get a look at your life at home with your families and see a new apartment where you want to start your own new family. We see the Quotidian details of the city itself, all of which were shot in a style that is not unlike a documentary, which is not surprising given the fact that director Mick Jackson originally comes from this world.

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There is a feeling of a threatening disaster, since the everyday scenes of Sheffield are interrupted by news reports on a growing crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union, which are interspersed with threatening text texts that are involved in the screen in South York'shire. It all indicates a kind of catastrophe, but something like that feels unthinkable because “threads” do such a convincing task to represent a realistic middle gland. In the meantime, the upcoming catastrophe is telegraphed, it has the feeling that the film could impossible to give up its sensitivity of the sink. But that's the point.

Just as the citizens of Sheffield feel so far away from the geopolitical machinations that finally led to their death, we feel similarly in a false feeling of security through the comforting human life in South Yorkshire. However, if the film makes the switch, it is converted into something else.

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Jackson somehow manages to present the nuclear attack outside of Sheffield as realistically as the preliminary attack scenes. If the bomb falls, there are no dodgy effects that you remove from experience, but only for the evil terror that does not wan the rest of the film. “Threads” shows the results of the attack of the Soviet Union in strong detail, and we cannot help but observe how everyday people with whom we were introduced in the first half of the film are either wiped out or in the course of weeks, months and ultimately for years, since Great Britain turns a nuclear winter that does not turn it into anything from a sinked hell. The fact that the realism that Jackson establishes from the start never disappears is what makes “threads” so stressful, especially since we see Ruth Beckett's gradual resolution over the course of a decade. As such, it is not an exaggeration to describe “threads” an apocalyptic nightmare that shaken Britain to the core.

Today it is common to tell that a horror film what you will ever see. 2024s “Longlegs”, for example, was advertised as the most terrible horror of the year, and Tikkok contributed to driving the brilliant “Skinamarink” for popularity in order to use this sentence (“Skinamarink” is one of the creepliest things that they will ever see). But “threads” is in another category. It doesn't feel as if his goal is to scare her. It feels like his goal is to remind the world from the Cold War from the time of the Cold War, for which the threat of nuclear annihilation had become as common as the purchase of a bread dome, the seriousness of the problem. However, it was somehow more scary than pretty much any horror film that they will ever see.

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The actor REECE DINSDALE, who played Jimmy, told the BBC that after a special demonstration in Sheffield before the film's television debut, “It was completely silent and everything you could hear were different people who sobbing in the room. People still accuse me of destroying them for life.” This is something bigger than “scary”. “Threads” is devastating. It is a Feel-Bat film that you just have to see, not only because its poor warnings of the folly of the nuclear war and the political inflexibility more relevant as ever, but because there is really nothing comparable. The fact that it has a “perfect” Rotten tomato score is actually one of the lower reasons to watch this film.

“Threads” will certainly be recognized in the coming years, since it is now set for a modern remake via Warp films, the production company, which is responsible for the chilling Netflix series, which has been shot in a “adolescence” take. It is fitting because Warp is based in Sheffield and has contributed to realizing one of the affected and most disturbing series of new times with her Netflix show. This means that even “adolescence”, which she will rock into her core, is not quite as double as “threads”, which is currently streaming for free on Tubi.

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